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Neo has been liberated from the falsity of the mind, and he now has conscious awareness of his physical reality ...
... (note the round, blue shapes now in the matrix), but he has not yet removed every attachment left over from the past. These now come back to trouble him ...
... just as he is contemplating the destruction his spiritual path will have on him; ...
... he fears losing all his personal qualities – positive as well as negative. He is aware now of the duality of his existence – as both the doer (in Zion), and passive experiencer (matrix). Reloaded is about successively deeper experiences with these two energies – bringing them into balance and finding their source.
Through intense inner concentration, the person becomes conscious of the four successively higher layers of the mind:
Mon - mind, the direct perception from the senses
Buddhi - intelligence, the analysis of that information into abstract concepts
Ahankara - ego, the self-identification with those concepts
Chitta - feeling, the inner response to that identification, judging whether it’s pleasurable or repulsive
To begin with, he tries to balance his wish for liberation, with his love for independent existence ...
His only way is to remain steadfast in his effort ...
... and to trust that it will work out in the end ...
As he withdraws his senses into himself, his awareness shifts to his self, and his desire for liberation from all else, seeing the world within himself, and himself in everything ...
All this self-focus boosts the ego for the moment, and cuts him off from any access to his insight ...
Mon – The Mind
In order to progress, he must practice detachment through the regulation of the actions of his body and senses. So his focus shifts down into the spine and lower nervous system – back home in his physical body (the Neb going home and slotting back into its landing space – one of the 12 signs of the zodiac).
Zion is laid out like a human brain and spine ...
... and the spiral down Zion suggests the human DNA ...
His self-defenses are all up ...
... and his willpower encounters his ingrained, ‘locked’ habits, who “care about one thing, stopping that army (spiritual liberation) from destroying this city (physical world of sense-pleasure)” ...
This is the root of his resistance to letting go of his attachments. A part of him feels enthusiastic about his quest, helping to drive him on ...
... as he avoids closed, controlled approaches, in favour of the hands-on, practical approach ...
He maintains his faith in the process, knowing that, in time, his practices will pay off ...
... but allows his energy to move down, towards the senses ...
He doesn’t allow himself to lose control, though, but transforms his building sensual energy into austerity, offering up his sense-enjoyment, as a sacrifice (in the Matrix, food represents the tastes –enjoyments– of the senses) ...
(There is much information in this scene, about Jacob on board the Gnosis – the description of Jacob’s “studiousness and reserved personality” fits the description)
He tends to his physical needs, taking care of his body and performing his duties (one cannot focus only on the mind, while neglecting the body) ...
He observes the children (creations / results of actions), but they are not his children, but his nephew and neice (he recognises that he is not himself the doer) ...
He purifies his intentions, controlling his actions (treating his body as a temple) ...
... giving thanks, respect and honour for his creations and achievements ...
... and summoning his willpower, ...
... drawing on his softer, feminine energies ...
Now he engages in deep, energetic meditation, drawing energy from his lowest spinal chakras (the temple is right at the bottom of Zion; note all the red and orange). In this powerful pranayama meditation, the senses are absorbed into the spinal centres, where the bodily noises (breath, heartbeat, etc.) are overwhelming. One who elevates his consciousness, however, past the gross physical vibrations, combats these low energies with the higher astral sounds in the subtle spinal centers, which (in ascending order of chakras) sound like: the drone of a honey-mad bee, a flute, a harp, a bell and the roar of thunder:
“That tremendous sound reverberating throughout heaven and earth pierced the heart of the Dhritarashtra (sense-enjoyment) clan.” – Bhagava-Gita 1v19
Male and female energies join ...
... with male effort lifting up the female energy (shakti), ...
... bringing the physical, feet-on-the-ground energy up to the crown ...
... when - in his little death ...
... the death of his attachments is seen ...
He is not ready yet to let go completely, but nurtures himself, as in his own personal womb (“Good night, Zion. Sweet dreams.”):
Feeling at one with the body, self-awareness enters the physical plane ...
... and he contemplates the meaning of his physical existence, and its connection to the greater goal of life, ...
... working out logically what he must do with what he understands, while trusting his intuition for the things he doesn’t ...
His inner guidance returns, and as he withdraws his energy from sense-objects, his desire for liberation intensifies, threatening to put an end to his purposeful practice ...
... but he’s careful to remind himself that he is in control, and that his desire for liberation is itself an illusion. This spoon doesn’t reflect. The many reflections in the matrix are there to show that the matrix (mind) is just a reflection of reality.
BUDDHI - Intelligence
He holds no pretences or religiously-held beliefs (now turned into plastic trinkets), and moves undisturbed through the material confusion ...
He begins to see the connection / balance between the mind and body – you get to know the one only by observing your struggles with the other (“You do not know someone until you fight them”) ...
This detached observation is possible only from the position of relaxed equilibrium, achieved when energy is withdrawn from the extremities ...
... opening the door to deeper states of realisation ...
Conversation with the Oracle
Without picking through every line, the following main points come out of this inner guidance:
1. “I won’t bite you”:
The machines are not actually the enemy, but a friend.
2. Candy
“Why are you here ?”
“Same reason ... I love candy.”
He is ‘here’ because of their taste for the enjoyment of sense-desires.
3. The nature of the Oracle, and the exiles:
The oracle reveals that she belongs to a group of entities from the machine world (source) that do not do “what they’re supposed to”, i.e. have the freedom to act creatively / free from bounds. These are uncomfortable feelings that are out of sync with what is known / accepted. The mind is disturbed by them, and tries to either eliminate or suppress (hide) them.
4. Choice / freewill:
Q: “If I’m following a path to the absolute truth, and that path is set (or to a set destination), then what happens to my individuality / freewill ?”
A: The truth is the truth. We do not actually control events. Your only freewill is to choose to understand them or not.
5. The need to understand and return to the source:
He must rise to higher level of understanding, or else fall back into lower states of unconsciousness. The understanding comes from bringing all external and internal energies inward, to the source (brainstem / third-eye chakra), down from the mind, and up from the body, losing all distinctions. Neo resists, fearing the loss of his existence and its connection to its experience – Trinity (“No. I can’t do that. I won’t”).
With that, the spectre of death approaches (crows are the harbingers of death):
Neo struggles to understand all this. He holds onto his ego, and sees himself all around. His liberating consciousness has transformed his locked, fixed views of reality into something more fluid – he sees himself behind all of that reality.
But what is that ego ? It will not let go of its purpose – to take hold of the conscious awareness and pull everything together into one reality. He is now swallowed in a sea of ego, pulling him down, back into a lost and unconscious state.
So he applies some discrimination to escape from this stuck state, and go looking deeper for answers – what is behind his thoughts and feelings ?
With him go both expressiveness – Pingala (the Logos) and defensiveness – Ida (the Vigilant):
His energy once again ascends the spine, but is now magnetised (script describes their movement through the crowd “like an opposing charge through iron filings”. Also, note the number 12 on the clock – 2 short lines = Ida, Pingala; long hand = Shushumna):
He tries to understand his desires, experiences and actions completely, ...
... and remain in full control, ...
... but also to experience and feel fully those experiences ...
The tension between these two forces produces (cooks up) the illusion of physical reality, ...
... which is actually as unreal as a ghost, with subject separate from object (though they are in reality one and the same), ...
... the illusion passing invisibly underneath the apparently solid physical world ...
The understanding of this provides the key to deeper experiences ...
Neo learns to balance these forces ...
... by applying the sword of discrimination / right action ...
Consciousness centres in the reticular formation (neural superhighway in the brainstem that connects all parts of the brain), which is the seat of wilful action in the body ...
By observing the rise of desire, and senses chasing after what seems intriguing, he is able to reverse the flow of energy, away from the senses and back toward its source, ...
... eliminating the duality, ...
... and with the experience of higher states of connectedness ...
... sense-desire is finally eliminated ...
... and the two energies, doer and observer, are united into one ...
... resulting in an explosion of red-hot energy, centered on the brainstem ...
AHANKARA – Ego
All three energies (Ida, Pingala, Shushumna now flow as one (3 objectives, 3 captains, 3 ships). The source is reached by the cessation of all activity, the state of samadhi (disabling the power grid). “Once the door (to the soul) is unprotected, the connection (to the material world) will be severed. But another connection (to the Self) must first be made.” 314 = 3.14 = pi = circle of the spiritual eye.
Note, however, the negativity of Soren and his crew (material mode of tamas = ignorance). They will be destroyed once the energy reaches its source. Niobe (mode of rajas = passion) will be overrun (pacified).
“All must be done as one (only when all three energies are balanced can the shushumna reach the goal). If one (Neo) fails, all fail.”
Midnight = 12 = 1 central + 2 sides = trinity.
Neo asks Trinity to stay out – severs connection to the outside world. He controls his breath, which ceases in deep meditation.
He (Morpheus, the dreamer) dreams of freedom from limitation and struggle, clinging to an illusion that is about to collapse.
First the negative flow ceases, ...
... then the positive flow, ...
... (then overrun by sentinels); life-force kicks in and powers up the senses, ready to break concentration (power grid emergency system). The spine is powered up, like a pole stretching from head to coccyx. At the top is liberation (Smith), at the bottom is attachment (Trinity). Both enter at once.
Smith holds the door to the higher self, until a connection is made to the kundalini ...
... which explodes in the base, ...
... then shoots up the spine (65th floor), withdraws from the body (power grid off), allowing direct access to the ego, seated in the 1000-petalled lotus, ...
... on which is reflected every bit of perceived, illusory reality (the entire body, with its activities and experiences are nothing but images on these tv screens.
The connection to the body (Link) is not broken entirely (he’s not dead), but remains in suspension (Morpheus returns ‘home’) until consciousness returns.
Sitting atop the universe he is able to view it all dispassionately, separate from himself.
So he asks himself “Who are you ?” The question is irrelevant.
So he asks “Why am I here ?”, and traces his life-path to this point. This doesn’t answer his question, as it’s all just a collection of experiences and memories – how can he reconcile an infinite, true purpose with his temporary, illusory life ? How could the latter lead o the former ?
Logically, he sees “only two possible explanations”: either his life is controlled from outside (“no-one told me”), or it’s random (“no-one knows”).
But then his insight reminds him that there is another energy in the equation – his feminine side (Trinity), the object of his activities, which has an unfathomable power of its own, to choose freely whether to respond or withdraw, motivated by itself, and no-one else.
Attempting to understand this by solid logic and analysis doesn’t work (“The first Matrix ... a triumph equalled only by its monumental failure.”). Neither does an uncontrolled, undisciplined approach (“reflect the varying grotesqueries ... again frustrated by failure.”).
The answer comes through marrying the “father” of conscious discipline, with the “mother” of intuition.
The problem, of course, is that intuition, by its very nature, is unstable and sometimes unreliable, sometimes leading to a dead end ...
When this happens, the entire intuitive process collapses (“return to the source”), return to material existence (“reinsert the prime program”), but with another opportunity to try for perfection (“rebuild Zion”).
Alternatively, continue upward, erasing all material attachment (“extinction of the entire human race”). The ego is empowered by its attachment to sense-objects, but exists above them, and without them (“levels of survival ... prepared to accept”).
His material life thus far (5 predecessors = 5 elements = 5 senses) has gradually elevated him through his connection to others, but now his consciousness has bee raised to a level where the heart is activated – intense love – and he may (possibly) make a different choice (6 = heart number = Tiferet = room 303 -3+0+3- = Christ’s age = 33 -3+3-).
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The choice now is:
- Right (logical) – return to the world of sense-pleasure, with full knowledge – “truly live”
- Left (unknown path) – follow heart – hold on to nothing
For Neo there is no choice – he risks everything, even threatens the ego, and in his intense love, surrenders completely ...
CHITTA – Feeling
Energy now does not fall back down, but shoots straight out the third-eye; ...
... all connection to the physical is lost, ...
... reborn into the subtle body, light and insubstantial, composed of pure love; ...
... body-consciousness is gone ...
... and only the feeling remains – which can now contact spirit directly ...
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