There is a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Something you know is wrong with this world.
Most people are not ready to be unplugged. Fear cuts us off from divine energy.
When we stop controlling others and align with the flow, you take the red pill.
We connect to a higher source… You stay in wonderland.
You’ve been living in a dream world: Attention, presence and love tune us back in.
Yes, I just dropped the first Wachowski x Redfield mixtape.
Because it’s not about whether we’re headed to utopia or dystopia.
It’s about whether we even matter when we get there.
Was Zion actually peak human civilization?
Shared goals for the future.
A unifying common enemy.
Principles over personal ambition.
Insanely dope cave amphitheater for transcendental drum circles.
It’s dystopian, sure. But I see families, careers, communities.
Love.
They have purpose. A deep and resounding desire to survive, grow and connect to something greater — a calling to thrive in a system that is designed to keep them broken.
Aching to get back to meaning, desperate to reclaim the sacred.
Are we living in a simulation?
Is ignorance bliss?
Only until you are aware of your ignorance.
Then you’ve got a choice — take Cypher’s deal, submit to the system, and wake up every day to the taste of a perfect steak you know isn’t real.
Or — trade a steak for oatmeal mush and hang out with a bunch of ragtag individuals with style and soul.
Hide in a hole and fight with people who matter vs participating one more moment in a world you know is fake.
Side-step your own comfort to help others discover what you’ve found.
Because what is a human life well-lived anyways? If not surrounding yourself with people who care about something greater than themselves and are brave enough to protect that right for others.
How deep does that rabbit hole go?
Allowing automation to open the soul
I want you to read The Celestine Prophecy — a story where spiritual evolution is tied to synchronicity and the unseen patterns between us.
No spoilers.
But I’ll share my thoughts on the concept it represents: AI does not steal our soul and render us irrelevant — it opens the space we need to stop worrying about shit that doesn’t matter.
Doesn’t everything matter?
Sure, if we are living in a simulation.
Imagine a world without bureaucracy.
Cue Macklemore’s Glorious, turn it up while we envision a world with:
No DMV. No parking tickets. No forms to fill out. No traffic to time.
No corporations stealing your energy.
No back-pocket politicians.
No more soul crushing tasks that detract us from the most important aspects of life.
The red pill kills red tape.
We’re meant for more folks
AI will take all the jobs that forced people to bow and shrink to monitors. The ones where each hour feels like an eternity and each new corporate initiative adds another straw to the camels back.
The roles that require us relinquish everything that makes us human — just to make a buck.
The careers that center on increasing productivity around tasks that should be outlawed. Barred the same way we’ve treated waterboarding.
Take your corporate keynote back to Guantanamo.
But they took our jobs! (please read in SouthPark voice)
Awesome. We’ll create better ones, with more purpose. Actual meaning.
Automation will make people lazy.
Nope. It will bring back craft. It will make art necessary again.
AI will steal our ability to think.
Naw. It will force us to ask — and answer — the right questions.
Ever worked hard at something? Then felt the rhythm, had the sense of pride of getting better? Then it becomes second nature.
You could do it in your sleep.
Then you’re bored and need a new challenge.
Utopia isn’t born on autopilot — it emerges when all the shit that doesn’t actually matter is automated allowing for space and time to focus on the areas that do.
The Maya is all around us, even now
The Matrix is characterized by ignorance, apathy, and a cosmic misuse of energy.
People are little batteries that keep the machine going.
In the Vedas, this is called Maya. That can loosely translate to macro ignorance and illusion.
Maya = material. It shows up as ego, lust, anger, gluttony. Like a perpetual existence where the Seven Deadly Sins are constantly lurking around every corner.
In our defense, we are actually at a disadvantage
Like we’re in Vegas but we’re with our wife’s church group and we’re only supposed to be there seeing Blue Man Group.
It goes a bit further: apart from our individual soul and the part of us connected to source, nothing else really matters. So your wife, the church group, Blue Man Group?
They all matter. But everything else that happens in Vegas?
That is what the sacred text describes as Kali Yuga. An age that lasts hundreds of thousands of years and is characterized by low morals and chaos.
In short, we are living in a material existence that pulls us away from good, and in a period specifically dominated by destruction.
Wait — did someone turn down the lights?
In the end, nothing else matters
Are we living in a simulation? Is God watching us? Does anything even matter?
Yes.
It doesn’t matter what you believe — it still matters.
I’ve met atheists who don’t talk trash about religion. Why bro?
I’ve met nihilists who still show up for their family. Thought nothing mattered homie?
I’ve been at the same table with an ultraconservative woman and a neoliberal trans man. Why are you two not dueling with pistols in the back — thought y’all were enemies?
It’s why we shoot shots behind screens
As much as we want to be mad at everyone and everything, at a deep and eternal level, we know that’s counterproductive.
We can jump on a bandwagon, sure. But when we realize the wagon costs more than it carries, we’ll find a better vehicle. Something with beefier tires and more storage space.
The Matrix and The Celestine Prophecy give us a window seat to that vehicle. They’re both future-worlds, both flashing warnings — systems spiraling with no brakes.
Whether it turns dystopian or utopian depends on what’s left of the soul.
That future gets shaped by us. Through better questions. Through deeper values. Through people who still show up when it’s easier to be apathetic.
We’re not here to simulate meaning. We’re here to remember it.
So are we living in a simulation? Is AI going to take over?
Look around.
What’s worth taking?