I can't speak for you or anyone else. If I did, my voice would be redundant and inaccurate. I think we are each here as an individuated unit of consciousness to give our own unique perspective on our experienced reality. This makes hearing what I (or anyone) really means very difficult because each word has meaning based on the lived experience of the person hearing them. Their own biases, labels, stereotypes, and (importantly) hurts, fears, and trauma directly impact the understanding of the words which inevitably translate into a caricature of the intent of the speaker.
Only the speaker of the words knows their intent. If they have character and integrity, they are doing the best they can with the word tools they have to communicate their intent accurately, but again, that is ultimately impossible because each person hears different things.
With all that said, here are my unique thoughts and feelings in this moment. They are more for me to understand my own state of awareness than anything else. If they impact you in any way, feel free to open a dialogue with me to better understand my intent and please understand you can not know my intent from the words alone as they will be interpreted by your own filters.
Right now, I feel uneasy. Unsettled. Yes, there are millions of people around the world suffering from the economic disaster that has been just under the surface since before 2008, but my feelings encompass more than that. It's the fear of death I "feel" around the world. The fear of suffering, pain, sickness, and loss. It's the uncertainty. The divergent opinions and different interpretations of the same data and "evidence." It's the unprecedented global unity we imagined was possible but not for something wonderful like ending war, deploying renewable energy for all, unification on food security, space exploration, or voluntary systems of mutual benefit over monopolized violent government. No, instead, we see unity directed at keeping everyone at home, subdued, fearful, and obedient.
I respect my friends like who highlight the important role of fear and how it has helped us evolve to where we are today. I also know that it does shut down the rational centers of our brain. Fight or flight is great when there might be a tiger in the jungle, and maybe also when it comes to the uncertainty principle and potential for a deadly, exponentially growing, unusually lethal virus. There's a lot of uncertainty around the data, how it's interpreted, and how well our models fit or don't fit because we can't adequately understanding logarithmic growth without them. Fear can be and is artificially manufactured to control humans.
But there's more I'm feeling even deeper. It's based on various conversations with people more in the mystic, guru, yogi, spiritual category. It's the idea that we are now seeing the manifestation of an ongoing awakening. We have a sense that something isn't right about our understanding of reality. A Matrix moment.
"Right now, we're inside a computer program?"
What if people are waking up to their "mental projection of their digital self"?
"You've been living in a dream world, Neo."
"Welcome to the desert of the real."
Some of us are starting to unwind our stories into something more like "You are not you and your world is not real. You are actually an individuated unit of consciousness, part of the absolute unbounded oneness, and this is a digitalized simulation of sorts you are experiencing to learn about yourself. You are here to decrease the entropy of your consciousness."
Without the traditional spiritual/shamanic tools to comprehend this, people just feel the unease and uncertainty. Science is slow to catch up with tools to explain the akashic records, remote viewing, astral projection, etc. That said, it's starting to come around with ideas about a holographic universe, more weight given recently to the simulation hypothesis, the causality-breaking quantum entangled delayed double split experiment, declassified files about remote viewers, etc.
It's quite possible religions and spiritual practices have known about these "truths" but kept them overly simple to coincide with what the collective consciousness at that time to could process. Our bandwidth has increased since then. We've accelerated everything with the industrial, computer, and network age to the point where information is doubling at an exponential rate.
In his 1982 book, Critical Path, futurist and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller estimated that up until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By 1945 it was doubling every 25 years, and by 1982 it was doubling every 12-13 months. IBM estimates that in 2020 human knowledge will be doubling every 12 hours. In The coming knowledge tsunami, Marc Rosenberg showed this diagrammatically as below.
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So what should we do? Maybe it's time to lean in deeper to our history as a species. Find the common threads between our ancient religions and spiritual practices that seem to describe the same things with different brands and bring them to the modern light. Maybe we no longer have to share truths in half-disclosed parables but can get directly into how Physical Matter Reality (PMR) and Non-Physical Matter Reality (NPMR) actually work and how that impacts our existence.
If you're curious to explore some of this, I encourage you to check out Thomas Campbell's My Big Toe. The last section of the third book includes quotes from some amazing thinkers which implies there's more going on here than most people realize. I think we feel that, and we're getting unplugged from the Matrix.
Where we go from here is up to us.
Luke Stokes is the Managing Director for the Foundation for Interwallet Operability as well as the Interim Executive Director for the EOS Foundation. He's passionate about voluntary systems of governance and has been involved in bitcoin since early 2013. He's been a witness for the Steem blockchain since early 2018 and a custodian for eosDAC, a community-owned EOSIO Block Producer and DAC Enabler, since its inception. With a computer science degree from UPENN, he built, bootstrapped and co-founded the shopping cart software company FoxyCart over a ten year period and is now focused on blockchain technology as a means to create a world we all want to live in. He currently lives in Puerto Rico with his wife and three children and enjoys discussing everything from philosophy, to consciousness, to voluntaryism, to love and awakening. lukestokes.info UnderstandingBlockchainFreedom.com fio.foundation eosdac.io


