When A Mind Awakes

A great example of this titanic shift from sleeping to waking is can be drawn from the movie The Matrix when Neo wakes up to the world that “Exists”. In this movie Humanity exists in a realm similar to a dream state or coma.

Through a computer program reality is dictated into the brain to determine the human perception of the universe. Everyone feels there is a problem though they cannot establish what it is. Even Neo, the hero of the story initially does not understand his feelings of imprisonment. He feels trapped even though he has no concept of the True universe and his actual slavery.

The reason this movie resonated so well with so many people is because it touched a foundational nerve. I believe that we all feel that there is something wrong with our world and with humanity itself. In a sense we are trapped in a prison that we have created. In turn Naturalism has closed our minds and closed our universe to the solution and reality of the “God who is there” (and a God who is near). Without the interaction of the originator of thought and enlightenment the mind has fallen asleep. We have excluded God from all equations and have said that Man is the supreme point of reference. This philosophy has ended in despair and hopelessness. If man is the beginning and end of all things, then the universe has no purpose and ultimately we live and die as aimless wonderers.

When Neo awoke he found that the world was scared, dark, and cold. Shock and horror filled his face as he wondered if had fallen asleep and if this awful place was the actual nightmare. As we watched this hero we wondered if he had been deceived and is now in a more hopeless situation than he was before. But there is a difference in our awakening. When a mind awakes into the world that exists it will find hope, purity, beauty, and truth. It is difficult to travel into a place that is unknown but it must be done.

The only way that we can begin to awaken is to place our minds and our universe back in the hands of the one who created them. It is time to unplug ourselves from the matrix of the sleeping mind and enter into the world that exists around us.