Gravitational Collapse

Darwin Holmstrom

As the matrix around us implodes we need to let go of our attachment to it or we'll be sucked into its gravitational collapse. We'll find ourselves trapped in an eternal war, fighting for something that was never ours to begin with. 

We've been trained from birth to abandon ourselves and instead play the matrix game, following its rules, obeying its dictates, and abandoning our own paths to follow the path laid out for us in the matrix. Not long ago this reality seemed so immutable that it never occurred to us to question the rules of this game. Now, in an instant, this immutable game has changed completely. The old rules are obsolete because now it's game over. This means that the old rules can't be replaced by new rules because the system that requires rules is in the process of ceasing to exist. 

It's time to evolve beyond rules. To make this possible will require us to open our eyes and really see what's happening. If we aren't open to the cataclysmic changes occurring both in the world and within ourselves, we'll miss our greatest opportunity for growth yet. We're moving into the age of Aquarius. We're entering a new clime that will require total freedom, a drastic counterpoint to our current system of external control. 

To do this will require us to dive deep and access strengths we didn't know that we have. We need to be strong because we won't be able to avoid a struggle between our need for inner freedom and a dying matrix still relying on external control. The matrix was never going to end without revealing itself for what it really is. Now it's out in the open; anyone who looks through their eyes without filtering what they see through the dogma cluttering their thoughts can see the hammer coming down. 

The response of the matrix to its own demise exposes its ultimate failure. The ruling oligarchy being so desperate to regain control of the narrative that it's resorting to ludicrous attempts to censor social media shows us that the matrix isn't an omnipotent monolith. There are powerful forces that do conspire to achieve certain goals, but they operate using classic game theory--the competing powerful forces only cooperate as long as it serves their mutual interests; when their goals are achieved, they'll be at one another's throats once again. So there isn't a conspiracy; there are many competing conspiracies, all run by oligarchs daft enough to believe their own PR. Because they overestimate their own power and underestimate ours, they trip over one another every step of the way. We prefer to believe that there is an omnipotent monolith acting as the universal puppet master because that fantasy is more comforting than the truth, which is that the world is too chaotic for one cartel to call all the shots. No one is in control--the world is rudderless.

We don't escape the chaos by pledging our allegiance to a never-ending series of puppet masters. Our governments aren't gods swooping down from the heavens to save us. We need to become our own masters. We need to listen to that still voice inside ourselves that guides us toward where we need to be. The time for mindless conformity and dependency on the approval of others has passed. It's time to abandon fear-based thinking and the herd mentality to which it leads and develop the tool set needed to navigate this transition. We'll need the right temperament and spirit to withstand some heavy winds or we'll be eaten by stress, overwhelmed with fear, and trapped in the illusory narrative we've been fed. Without looking at the world around us as free humans, we'll die carrying out someone else's agenda. We'll toil in frustration in the remnants of the dying matrix to the bitter end, consumed by conflict, strife, and struggle.

The source of truth is changing. We once thought we would find truth in the official narrative, the histories we've been spoon fed through education and media, but now more and more people are starting to see through these illusions. The fog is clearing and a different truth is being revealed to us. Our old sources of truth have been too completely compromised to retain any credence; now we're finding a different truth on the ground, in our human communities. The isolation being forced upon us has purified many of the toxic influences in our lives. We've seen our own reflections in our relationships. If we've been looking with our eyes, we've learned much that can help us develop real inner freedom.

We've entered a time when our freedoms are systematically being taken away with Draconian ruthlessness, through totalitarian dictates like lockdowns and travel bans. In response we must increase the absolute freedom of the self and remain unaffected by the enslavement of the ego. The macrocosmic forces are powerful, but the dictates of our egos control us at the microcosmic level. We have to liberate ourselves from the dictatorships of our egos, which only create more suffering. We need to find our real selves. The matrix is collapsing into a black hole of its own insanity; to avoid collapsing with it, we need to remain absolutely immune to all the anxieties that the ego uses to control us.

If we ignore what we see, we'll be stuck making even more of the same mistakes that led to our current chaos. There are two competing narratives playing out in the world right now. In one, the media bombards us with expertly-crafted propaganda portraying humanity's worst qualities. This inclines us to engage in fear-based thinking, which is what convinces us to seek the safety of the boxes in which we imprison ourselves. The other narrative, playing out in our hearts and minds, presents an opportunity for personal evolution through basing our thoughts on curiosity and love instead of fear. Which narrative gets our energy is up to us. Which we focus on will be the energy that we bring into our lives.

We're entering a phase in which the whirlwind of chaos and destruction is accelerating. This increased rate is the result of the increasingly fast flow of information, and information is what quantum physicists believe underlies everything in the universe. They believe that our entire universe is a secondary byproduct of a primal information. This line of thought goes back at least as far as the Book of John in the New Testament, which states: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Another way of saying that is that God is information and information is God. 

In the dynamic systems theory there's a concept called period-doubling bifurcation, which, crudely put, states that with the slightest change in the parameters of a system, a new behavior will be observed in half as much time as the previous change. Eventually the rate increases to something called the period-doubling cascade. That's what's happening with the flow of information today. As technological advancement speeds up the flow of information, we're seeing a period-doubling bifurcation with the transmission of information happening at speeds too rapid to comprehend. The decade of the 1960s saw a period-doubling bifurcation in the flow of information in just ten years. By the year 2000, when the internet was coming into universal usage in homes around the world, the rate of flow of information was doubling every 18 months. Thanks to the introduction of smart phones and Wi-Fi, by the year 2015 the rate was doubling every one-thousandth of a second. The Word has transformed from flesh into a virtual God consisting of unimaginably fast ones and zeroes.

When both the New Testament and quantum physicists believe that information and God are one and the same, and with this new God becoming exponentially more powerful every fraction of a second, reality transforms from a concrete absolute into an infinite kaleidoscope of possibilities. We can follow the stories that our egos tell us as if they were concrete realities, but those stories are just imaginary; the only reality that we can count on is the one in which we find ourselves at any given moment. To not just survive but to thrive in such a fractioned reality, we need to establish our consciousness in absolute presence rather than focusing on the changing stories that our egos use to take over as the captains of our ships.

The one place in which gods and demons inarguably exist is within our minds, where they are real in all their monstrosity. Our egos feed on the fear that these gods and demons generate and use that fear-based energy to make us abandon our true selves and follow the herd mentality. To retain that connection to our true selves, we need to witness each moment from a place of strength, clarity, and love. We need to access the purity in our hearts to spontaneously respond to every event as our authentic selves. The ego will do everything possible to prevent our consciousness from ascending to that level because it fears ego death. Our egos will try to influence our actions by feeding us negative thoughts that make us act in ways that benefit the puppet masters pulling our strings rather than benefiting our authentic selves.

The love we experience from those around us will be the clearest reflection of who we truly are so we can use that as a fixed star by which we can navigate the courses of our lives. Which relationships in our lives give us energy and which ones deplete our energy? Which relationships are going well and which are going poorly? What is our role in those relationships? What can we change within ourselves in order to have relationships that bring us happiness, joy, peace, and freedom? To live the life that serves us instead of those we perceive as our masters, we need to find balance. We need to choose freedom over control. We need to choose love over fear.

Darwin Holmstrom lives and writes aboard his sailboat. He's done many things and hopes to do many more.

The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of The Greanville Post