The Red Pill

PREFACE

I am writing this book with my heart open as wide as it ever has been. I feel all the pain and the loss that so many of you have endured during the COVID-19 pandemic. There really are no words to express the grief I feel as I encounter all the grief of others. This is the most tragic time of my lifetime and probably of your lifetime as well. We are all called to find a way through the darkest of times. Many of you have a strong faith can call on at this time and find peace.

Others, especially the young people who are in some ways still innocent, this means giving up all the things they counted on with certainty. The junior or senior prom, a graduation ceremony, hopes for a wonderful summer vacation at the beach or hiking in the mountains, dreams of getting the job you always wanted or going off to college.

They are all gone now during the time of the virus. In the middle of this nightmare, no one knows when it will end. Also, there no when it’s over to look to forward to for relief. In the middle of the void, you have to go deep inside to find any solace or you have to try to keep very busy so you can distract yourself so you would not fall into the pit of despair.

Part of the reason I am writing this book in the middle of the stay-at-home orders is that I felt compelled to reach out the best way I know and that is through the books I write. I have no idea if anyone will even read this book, but that doesn’t matter to me at this moment. What matters to me is just to reach out in hopes that there is someone else out there who is asking some of the same questions I am asking. I sure hope so, because I believe this is a perfect time to question everything. The COVID-19 pandemic crisis which has caused the biggest disruption in the lives of people around the world, offers us a chance to reevaluate everything in our lives.

This is a great opportunity to bring about radical change in this country. Many of us have seen all the inequalities and the injustices, but somehow it didn’t lead to any fundamental changes. Now the things that need to be changed seem to stand out to us in stark relief during this crisis. If we don’t take advantage of this opportunity, when things are in breakdown, we may never have another opportunity for a breakthrough like this one.

We are at a crossroads or a tipping point. We see that millions of Americans have lost their jobs and their health insurance. Since so many people in this country live paycheck to paycheck, this crisis severely threatens their whole way of life. There has to be something better, and I intend in this book to suggest what that something might be.

I am hopeful that something very positive will come out of this crisis. We cannot, in good conscious, ever go back to the way things were. That would be, in my opinion, the worst possible outcome to all the disruptions and losses we have suffered. Hardly anyone wants to go back to normal because they know that is where their problems are. My hope is that this country will never go back to normal. There has to be a new normal that rises from the ashes of the dead. Otherwise, we are lost.

The otherwise is that we have an opportunity to bring forth probably our best, if not only, chance to right the wrongs and set things straight that existed prior to the pandemic. What I have attempted to do in this book is shine a light on the people who are highly invested in keeping us blind to the possibilities for change, right in front of our blind eyes. What in this book I am labelling as the Matrix, is actually a group of super rich people who think they know better how to run this world. Likely they are behind this world-wide pandemic.

They too live in fear that this invisible enemy could also destroy their empire. They have a nefarious agenda and they are determined to achieve their objectives. Their bottom line is to reduce the earth’s population down to 500,000 people. They are busy trying to comup with ways to achieve that goal. Certainly this world-wide pandemic fits their agenda and will likely kill millions of people before it subsides. It produces mass fears which enables those behind the Matrix to better control people’s actions.

Read this book with an open mind and an open heart. You will need both to wade through all the twists and turns presented in this book. Some of you may be further along the path of waking up than others. Some of you may just be beginning to question what you see. Wherever you are of the spectrum of waking up, I know you will find facts in this book that will cause you to question some of your beliefs. I sure hope so, because that it my intention. It takes a special kind of courage to question your own beliefs, but the alternative is not very good.

Introduction

What is the pattern which connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose, the whale to the dolphin and all of them to me and me to you?

—Gregory Bateson

A short time ago, (March 15, 2020), I was going about my life in my usual fashion. I was organizing a Wednesday Men’s Breakfast to have some social time with some of my male friends. I was making plans to attend a National Men’s Conference in Estes Park, Colorado, making final plans for a train trip to the Grand Canyon with my daughter and making plans to possibly attend my granddaughter’s graduation in Vancouver, BC. I was also getting ready to watch my favorite NBA and NHL teams prepare for a playoff run.

Then the COVID-19 came to this country with a large increase of reported cases. In a matter of days all hell broke loose. Everything was postponed or cancelled and people were asked or in some cases forced to self-quarantine and stay at home.

At the same time, Janae was in Ukraine, teaching classes to Ukrainian therapists and doing personal therapy with many of these therapists so they can stay present with their clients when they get triggered by their own unhealed childhood traumas.

She said she too felt the Earth shake as the borders of Ukraine were closed. All international flights were cancelled and the people began to feel the effects of a pandemic virus. People who had scheduled to meet with her in a therapy session began to cancel out. Many feared any close contact might expose them to this virus so she arranged to counsel her clients via Zoom. She is working out the details to again offer workshops, but do them remotely through ZOOM. Tonight, as I write this, it hit me that none of what I have planned is going to happen at least in the near future.

By comparison, the lives of billions of others across the world have been disrupted much more than mine. I am grateful for my good fortune. I wonder how many of these people are asking questions like: Why was this country not more prepared for this kind of pandemic? What on earth caused this pandemic? Some may also be asking other questions like, Is this a man-made virus? Who would stand to gain if this were a man-made crisis? Is there any place I can go to find answers to my questions?

Well, this book is a good place to start to find answers to these questions. Reading this book is the equivalent of swallowing the red pill. You will be able to better determine what is real and what those who run the Matrix, want you to believe is real. I have done considerable research to try to find definitive answers to the above questions, as well as others, related to the origins of the COVID-19 virus. I plan to share what I have found in this book. It may knock your socks off.

The Personal and Global Impact of the COVID-19 Virus

My life and the lives of billions of people on this planet have changed and may never be the same. This is the first time in history that the whole planet has faced a common enemy. To address the problems caused by the pandemic, it will require a level of global cooperation that has never before been required. We have a common enemy, as unseen as it is, and we will have to work cooperatively if we all are going to survive it’s global effects.

If we successfully cooperate to reduce the devastating effects of this world-wide pandemic, we may in the process create new cooperative methods that can be used to curb other world-wide problems, such as global warming. As I write this, it is too early to tell how this is going to turn out. It will depend whether or not ordinary people can get outside their own personal interests and fears and begin to consider the interests and needs of others around them and those less fortunate.

At a personal level, the collective fears we saw took the form of hording toilet paper or facial tissue you bought at the grocery store. What if you run out of gas for your car? What if the whole safety and security net that we are used to, collapses? Can you pay your rent or mortgage? Can you feed your family? Can you get tested and treated if you catch the virus? One thing is certain, life as you knew it will never be the same. What will life look like after the COVID-19 is over? At the time of this writing, it is still to be determined.

With every crisis there is always an opportunity. You might ask, What in God’s name is the opportunity in this crisis? It may be too early to determine that as I write this book, but this could be the beginning of the end of the lives of millions of people or it could be a chance for the world to wake up and begin to work together to solve the problems that were there even before the effects of the virus hit their health care system or economy.

The Presence of The Matrix In A Global Crisis

It occurred to me that the more you and I are able to see what is real and what is not, might determine how we handle this crisis. The Matrix, as it was first presented in the series of three films with that name, occurs when Orpheus offers Neo a choice of swallowing the blue pill or the red pill. Orpheus explains to Neo that if he swallows the red pill he will be able to see reality as it really is not as he thinks it is. Neo decides to swallow the red pill and what he discovers blows his mind.

This pandemic has the potential to totally destroy the Matrix as we have experienced it. However, you are not going to see any of the members of the Matrix on the front lines of this war. They are already hiding safely in their estate or underground bunkers that they built to prepare for this pandemic. Although this pandemic does support the bottom line of their nefarious agenda which is population reduction, it could easily backfire and mean to end of the Matrix they have created.

How we handle this crisis in our lives will be determined like for Neo, whether we swallow the blue pill or the red pill. If you do swallow the red pill, you might be able to see what has been happening as it really is and not as the Matrix, (a main-frame super-computer in the movie), would like you to see and believe.

The real Matrix is not a mainframe computer. It isn’t even the group of very wealthy families who control most of the world’s resources. They need to convince the general public to follow their agenda. David Icke called the people who are controlled by the Matrix, sheeple.

The Matrix actually resides inside of each of us. It is our False Self or the self we created to get along with others. We soaked up everything we were told for at least the first seven years of our life. Much of what we were told resides in our subconscious mind. It is sometimes called our shadow. The work involves finding our True Self. Without knowing your True Self, it is very difficult to know when someone is lying to you or telling the truth.

When you have recovered your True Self, will be easier to tell the truth from a lie. In effect, the blue pill represents the fears connected with living out of your False Self and the red pill is represents living out of the love in your True Self. Those in the external Matrix know this about you and they will do anything they can to prevent you from recovering your True Self. Science has shown that only about 5 percent of our thoughts are conscious. The rest reside in our subconscious, but those are the thoughts that control our beliefs, feelings and behaviors. Much of their propaganda is aimed at influencing your subconscious thoughts and beliefs.

The Matrix produces a false reality that they hope your False Self will believe. This allows them to control most of the rest of us. Right now they are likely hunkered down waiting out this crisis and hoping to reinstate their nefarious agenda. If enough people are awakened from their sleep because of the massive disruption in their normal life and find the truth about who they really are, the Matrix will be destroyed.

Unfortunately, to find what is your True Self and what is your False Self requires much more personal work than just taking a pill. Now, more than ever before, this pandemic virus requires that you to make decisions that are totally outside the box. No matter who you are, your life has changed drastically as a result of this pandemic virus and what has happened to you. Without a way of determining what is true or false in what you are being told, it likely is going to be difficult to make wise decisions that can determine whether you live or die or whether you survive or thrive.

As someone who is living through or has lived through this upheaval, what did do you do to find your True Self? Or do you believe you were just lucky? The better you are able to see your True Self that is unfolding quickly right before your eyes, the better you are able to cope with the fears this crisis creates.

My Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The stay-at-home orders provided everyone with the opportunity to slow down and reflect on his/her life. Prior to this interruption in their normal life few people had time to sit and reflect on where they are in their life and to think about what they might want to do after this crisis is over. If they have been operating out of their False Self, this time can cause people to have to face their psychological problems that they might have been running away from by self-medicating through the creation of addictive behaviors.

If they come face-to-face with these issues they can become overly anxious or more depressed. Whatever people decide to do with all this free time, it could lead to profound changes in their life. Reports are that calls to domestic violence hotlines have increased dramatically since the stay-at-home orders were issued in their city or town.

What I decided to do in the midst of this crisis is to update a book that I think is very timely right now in the middle of this pandemic and start a second book that looks at what life might be like after COVID-19. I wrote this book to help those of you are beginning to question the reality you are seeing. Some of you are starting to ask the same questions that this book answers. This updated book presents the latest information on how you can recover your True Self and live free of the Matrix/COVID-19 fears.

The book is broken down into the seven levels of the Matrix that you will need to understand, in order to recover your True Self and live a life free from the false reality created by the Matrix/COVID-19 fears. Only by doing the work to recover your True Self, will you be able to live free of these fears.

The second book is about the future after this pandemic is over and people can return to normal life. It will be published when it is clear that the pandemic is near over and we can begin to think about returning to whatever life we wish to have. At the time I am writing this book, when that will happen is very uncertain.

The content of each of the chapters in this book addresses the unique challenges of how an individual discovers what life currently looks like at each level without the Matrix.

This book provides you with the results of over 30 years of my research to help you recover your True Self and uncover the various lies, deliberate or not, that you were told about your reality in each of seven areas. Do you know what effect these lies have had and continue to have on your life? We have looked for answers to that question in a number of places. This book provides the reader with a road map to recover your True Self and learn how to live your life without the fears the Matrix/COVID produce creating a false reality that is used to control you.

Steps to Take To Break Free of the Matrix

Each step in my journey required feeling deep emotions and releasing many of my long-held beliefs, fantasies and the illusions that held my reality together. My False Self was strong and seemed content to exist without changes. This got me in lots of trouble in my life and relationships. Each time a new truth shattered the illusions of my False Self, it penetrated my being and I experienced a deconstruction of old world-views and a reconstruction of what I now perceive as my True Self. I soon realized that this research required me to be on the path of a spiritual warrior, as it repeatedly called me to muster up courage from the seat of my soul.

With each reconstruction, however, came an accompanying sense of being freed like Gulliver from the minute threads of misinformation, misperception and sometimes outright, bald-faced lies that have bound me to my False Self Matrix within. Coming to grips with these shadow aspects of my collective reality has been physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually intense. Through this journey of discovery and many series of aha’s, I found the patterns that connected all of my experiences.

At last, I was able to find deeper meaning in my life experiences in ways that opened me to heart-field resonance. When I live out of my True Self, my mind and heart are synchronized. This enabled me to better understand and live free of the Matrix.