In the 1999 sci-fi classic, The Matrix, Neo was offered a choice between a blue pill - staying asleep - or a red pill - waking up. The term “red-pilled” has since come to mean waking up to the dark reality of what’s really happening in the world.
What’s missing is a third option, a gold pill.
A gold pill wakes us up to the bright reality of what’s really happening in the world. We’ve all been blue pilled, some of us have been red-pilled, now… how many of us are gold-pilled, or ready and willing to be?
If we’re only blue-pilled we’re asleep to the manipulation assaulting us every day. Getting red-pilled, we wake up to realize how society has been significantly disrupted. With perspective, looking back, we can understand and mourn the destruction that our unquestioning compliance facilitated. I’m sure that if we’d been asked three years ago if we agreed to overturn the Nuremberg Code, we would have said, “What? Are you insane? Seriously? Hell no!”
But that’s exactly what happened.
Point one of that code, formalized 70 years ago to prevent future medical experiments on an unwilling population: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.”
Most people obeyed en masse and became cheerleaders for insanity. I wonder if we’ll obey again, when the next excuse to intensify this experiment in global control is trotted out? It depends on how many of us have been re-pilled in the last three years.
Red-pilled, we wake up to this threat, which is existential. But we can then easily get lost exploring conspiracies that time turns true.
The gold pill takes everything to another level. Having languished in blue pill land myself but been thoroughly red-pilled during this adventure, I’m now exploring and championing gold pill territory - the bright alternative - which has always felt like my natural reality… and I know it does for those attracted to my work.
This is where I/we live. But it’s been necessary to visit those other worlds to gain perspective and become better able to relate to those who live there, in order to offer a helping hand so they too can decide to change their primary place of residence.
So, let’s talk about gold-pill land. What’s happening here? Well, for one thing, residents love and support each other. In fact, our priority is community. And we understand that our power flows from within ourselves, the same power that flows through everyone and everything, without wires or batteries. No government, no employer, no other person, no amount of money or cache of stuff can give us what we most need, which is the experience of honest self-acceptance, loving connection with others and nature, and an avenue for our creative contributions.
We also understand that humanity is evolving, currently navigating a “dark night of the soul.” We’re in the midst of an undeclared war on freedom, especially spiritual freedom, where A.I. is being developed to replace God. I’m not a Luddite; I use and appreciate A.I. as a creative tool. But there are bad actors in frantic action, intent on using technology to increase their control. Artificial General Intelligence is the Holy Grail, the great prize being pursued, defined as a computer’s ability to “perform any task that a human being is capable of.” Uh, why would we be necessary then?
It’s a survival tactic of a dying breed, the metaphorical caterpillar who must die to be reborn as a butterfly. The human version of this metamorphosis doesn’t happen because of the stock market, extreme weather, fashion trends, or political upheavals. And it ultimately can’t be sabotaged by those clinging to their caterpillar-ness.
Our ongoing evolution unfolds according to the timing of life itself.
Ironically, it’s easy to see how A.G.I. is is intended (unconsciously, I’m sure) to substitute for the butterfly. It’s an invention that allows caterpillars to survive, using A.G.I. to live forever. It’s a denial of our natural, human, transformative destiny.
Personal choices determine the pace of our personal transformation and, added together, either support or disrupt what happens to our whole species. Most of us live small lives and may feel we can’t make much of a difference. Perhaps that’s true in the physical world. But there’s unlimited potential for impact in the quantum world. We are each as powerful as a single atom being split, except we’re about unifying and creating, not dividing and destroying.
These theories become real when we develop and tune our instrument for creating, the conscious mind. This is the purpose of the audio program I’ve developed with friends. It’s now available on the app that my business partner and I built. You can download it for free here. There’s a paid version of the app with a ton more related good stuff, but our OpenMind Fitness program is free. It’s found in the LEARN/Mindset Tuneups section, the last entry called Refresh Your Mind. Here’s the description:
Refreshing Your Mind
Imagine a mystical friend guiding you along a magical healing path, refreshing your mind and renewing your spirit… in less than five minutes of easy listening.
Refreshing Your Mind can become an everyday habit, morning and evening, just like brushing your teeth. Once you’ve memorized the four-part process, you can innovate throughout the day, to shed mental/emotional toxins and create your preferred reality.
Enjoy.
I’m glad to live with you in gold-pill land where we’re not really that worried or excited about the imminent advent of A.G.I. (Artificial General Intelligence). We’re content with N.O.I. (Natural Original Intelligence). It’s doing a pretty good job of running the universe so I’ll put my trust there. And… welcome our transformation!
For those who don’t want to get the free app, here’s a link to listen right here. Please use headphones. And let me know what you experience after practicing for a week or so.
It does take practice to regain control of our minds. They’ve been hijacked and we’ll have to fight to get them back. But, as you’ll experience when you listen, it’s a gentle battle.
Remember the headphones.
Life is always now. We get distracted into anxiety about what might happen. Whatever is happening now is here to be fully enjoyed and learned from and shared with those we love... and we can decide to love everyone! That keeps things simple.
There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions, but accept the truth. Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released. - A Course in Miracles