Matrix

One of the most powerful and important mystical tools that you can ever learn is a very simple, one word exercise: 

Why?

Whether you’re looking to manifest a new job, put together a magickal spell, find a romantic partner, learn how to paint, use alchemy to transform something, start a new workout routine, or anything else you may want to change or influence in your life… Ask yourself: 

“Why?” 

Why do you want a new job? Why do you want to do magick? Why do you want a romantic partner? Why do you want to learn how to paint? Why do you want to transform something? Why do you want to start a new workout routine?  

If an answer comes up, such as, “I want a new job to make more money” or “I want to lose weight,” then ask yourself again: 

 “Why?” 

I know, I know, this may seem annoying and redundant 😜 But asking this question is one way to practice tracing energy lines at a mystical level.

When we follow the energy lines, we can start to see where we’re going and who (or what) is influencing us. Asking ourselves this simple question is like following a compass to our true destination. 

We’re often motivated to do stuff because we “should do it.” The “should” usually comes from social programming or other stories that we agree to. “I should go to school” or “I should eat healthy.” Why should you?

We can also make decisions based out of fear. If we’re doing something because we’re afraid, this is a big red flag. Nearly 100% of the time if we do something out of fear, it’s based on somebody else’s agenda.

By asking ourselves “why?”, we can identify whether any unconscious programs or fears are controlling us.

Removing these unconscious programs and fears makes it easier for us to find our why.  The reason I bring this up is because every mystical work needs a very strong why.

We can’t “willy nilly” or half-ass a mystical project. If we do, generally two things will happen: We risk poor mystical etiquette (e.g. doing magick without knowing why we’re doing it is not a good idea). But also, we risk dropping the mystical work before we can complete it.

We need a strong motivation, a clear why, to start and finish a mystical project. Some works can take days, months, even years to finish. Just like an artist may quickly sketch something to practice a new technique or take decades to finish a masterpiece, having a clear intent behind our work will help us to persevere. 

This doesn’t need to be just about mystical works though. Try asking yourself this simple question throughout your daily life and see what comes up 🙂 you may be surprised where this compass will lead you! 

It’s super important that you get your life together. Why?

It’s much more difficult to be a high-frequency, powerful, capable, and effective mystic if you can’t pay your bills.

Inelia Benz shared during a 2019 retreat that it’s imperative to “cover your bases.” They are:

1. Shelter
2. Food
3. Human contact
4. Income

Let’s look at each of these from both a practical and mystical perspective.

Shelter – We all need to protect our bodies from the elements. It’s also our natural instinct to claim a space as our own. Whether we’re living each day in a different hotel or paying a 30-year mortgage, we all need a space to call “home.”

Mystically speaking, our home is our power center. It’s where we center and ground ourselves. Our home is one of our core, sacred spaces for doing our mystical works. It’s also much easier to do mystical works if your home is consistent, stable, and high-frequency.

Food – We all need nourishment by replenishing our chi. We replenish much of our chi from our Sun and Gaia. Whether you’re vegan or eat meats, we’re eating other creatures to rejuvenate our bodies with energy. Plants and animals represent different phases of the chi cycle, so it’s really up to you and your physical body which diet works best. There are also records of breatharians and sun-gazers who gain their chi directly from Gaia or the Sun, so it is possible to absorb chi without food. Personally speaking, my body really likes to eat chocolate ice cream and steak, so we’re sticking with that for now 🙂

Mystically speaking, food is just one way that we need to look after our physical bodies. It’s about responsibility, very similar to looking after a pet. Would you lock your dog in a room for days on end without taking it for walks? Likely not. By having a healthy and strong body, we become much more mystically able and powerful as well.

Human contact – We do not live in isolation. One of the cruelest forms of punishment is solitary confinement because our bodies need intimacy, connection, and physical touch. There’s tons of research out there about babies who do not get enough parasympathetic responses grow up with a ton of problems. So we need community, connection, and physical touch in order to survive. Make friends, hug your family, and collaborate with interesting groups.

Mystically speaking, everything we do involves other people. Although you may not cast a spell over another person, it’s 99% likely that the results of that spell will come through other people. Whether you’re doing manifestation or alchemical works, we need human collaboration to carry it out.

Income – We still find ourselves in the chosen reality where we have to pay to live on the planet. Our income does NOT need to be connected to our chosen “mission.” How we earn income is irrelevant. What DOES matter is getting a source of income that supports us and covers our bases. Whether you’re working at McDonald’s or Google, we need income to support ourselves on the planet at this time. Don’t overcomplicate it.

Mystically speaking, income is a direct representation of our power. It is chi, the ability to do, a tool. Think of all the billionaires on the planet and how quickly they can shape reality. Also, without income, we can incur debt with others. This is a very disempowering energy, so it’s important that we’re gaining income somehow.

As a Mystic, if you’re thriving instead of surviving, then you can spend more time focusing how to use your power.

And imagine what it would be like if we had 100 light-worker billionaires on the planet 😀 The world would look much, much different.

So cover your bases. Once your life is in order, your power as a Mystic will continue grow.

You’ve probably heard someone say at some point in your life that “we are all connected.”

This is one of the most important Laws of the Universe to understand and integrate into your life.

From subatomic particles to galaxies, everything is an expression of energy, vibration, and frequency. This is why the Nature of Reality is a fractal, and we see the macrocosm in the microcosm and vice versa. This is also why sacred geometry is “sacred,” and why you will see it used in magick all the time, because sacred geometry reflects this universal Truth.

Every aspect of our lives is about our connection and communication with Other.

Let’s look at this in a way that’s more practical for our daily lives. In order to manifest something into your life, whether it’s buying a new house or getting a promotion, you need to create story that is believable not only to yourself but one that other people will believe as well.

Why? Because other people will bring your manifestation to life.

Let’s say you want to buy a house. How will you get that new house? Well, the Human Collective creates the house. You create a story with the Human Collective to bring that life into YOUR reality.

At some point, the Human Collective birthed people who would contribute to house-building. It brought in people to mine minerals, harvest wood, and gather the materials for the house; people daydreamed what the house would look and feel like; others designed and architected the house; even more people came to together to build the house; selling and inspecting the house is done through even more people, etc.

Everything in the Matrix is about connection with other people.

So as we go about our lives, whether we’re looking at how the Matrix works or we want to create something new for our lives, it’s important to remember that we cannot do it alone.

In fact, the more we step out of the “it’s all about me” mindset or the “me, myself, and I” focus, the easier it is to manifest what we want out of life. When we step into a mindset of “what is my role in this situation?” and into a broader “we, us, and ourselves” level of focus, it’s much easier to manifest and change realities because we’re working with others to do it.

We are much more powerful when we operate as a group than when we operate as a singular person.

We are a Creator species, and we don’t live in isolation. Literally every physical object in our lives was made by other people. Even the Rules of Engagement to reality are decided by us as a singular and by broader Collectives. We are all connected, and the more we embrace this Truth, the more powerful we become.

“All you need is love 
All you need is love 
All you need is love, love 
Love is all you need.”
~ The Beatles, 1967

Humans cannot survive without love and relationships, and we cannot thrive without love and healthy relationships.

Love is more than just neurons firing in the brain and dopamine traveling through the bloodstream — although that’s definitely part of it. After all, we do have physical bodies, and the relationship we have with our physical body is one of the most important relationships we can have in this Reality Game.

Love is the binding energy of the Cosmos.

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Scholarship across disciplines has shown the importance of love and relationships with others.

For decades, studies have shown that babies that do not receive enough physical touch — parasympathetic response — can be psychologically harmed, or in extreme cases, even die.

As a society, we’ve deemed that “solitary confinement” is one of the worst ways to punish an individual. It’s because we cut the individual away from the Collective, by stimulation via the environment, information, emotional, mental, and physical contact. There are also hundreds of years of research that show the substantial adverse effects of people who are subjugated to solitary confinement. Why?

Being supportive and supported by love is the key to Creating healthy relationships.

Medicine, history, sociology, literature explore how love and relationships impact the human condition — even physicists are describing quantum entanglement as a type of love-relationship of the universe itself.

So clearly, we cannot survive alone. And we most certainly can’t thrive being alone and lonely. If we take it a step further, we can’t even experience this reality of the universe alone!

So let’s imagine the other extreme for a moment. What would happen if we thrived in a healthy group?

When we Unite with love, we are unstoppable.

Mahatma Gandhi helped India gain independence from Britain, the most powerful Western nation of the time, through peaceful resistance. Inspired by Gandhi and his success with non-violent activism, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described Gandhi as being one of the “individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God.” The legacy of Dr. King goes beyond his Nobel Peace Prize, being the driving force of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his immortalized “I Have a Dream” speech.

They proved how the Human Collective can achieve seemingly unthinkable, unattainable, impossible acts of Co-Creation through Love and Relationships.

It’s likely that many people when reading this article thought I’d write about romantic relationships. And although it’s true that romantic relationships are often a Core Creation we focus on, it’s much more important to look at the foundation of our relationships.

We can go so far as to say that our entire experience as a species is that of Duality, or the relationship between Self and Other.

If this wasn’t true, then Greek philosophes wouldn’t have lamented about the 7 Types of Narrative Conflict for the past three thousand years. If you’re unfamiliar with them, here they are (note that I’m replacing the terms “man” or “person” with the word “self”):

• Self vs. Self
• Self vs. Fate/God
• Self vs. Person
• Self vs. Society
• Self vs. Nature
• Self vs. Supernatural
• Self vs. Technology

What do relationships look like in the New Paradigm?

You’ve probably heard of this famous quote, “I think, therefore I am.”

The original Latin phrase, Cogito, ergo sum, was a philosophical proposition by René Descartes during the mid-seventeenth century. It’s usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am.” An even older axiom from the ancient Greeks is, “Know Thyself,” which was quite famously taught by Socrates and Plato. Not only must you know your mind, you must know how to control it or have it work with you, not against you.

Turns out all these men were alchemists, but that story is for a different blog article 😉

Fast-forward to contemporary times, turns out that modern physics is showing how the entire Cosmos (the physical Universe) is inexorably linked to the mind.

If you thought that the Universe was merely an infinite floating space of random matter, think again. Even recent studies in Quantum Physics is showing how Reality is entirely subjective and not objective at all.

In other words, Reality is entirely decided and created by YOU.

Whoa. Heavy stuff, right?

You may be thinking to yourself, “How the heck am I capable of creating the cosmos when I can barely get up in the morning?”

Great point.

Turns out that most of reality is a Collective agreement. In other words, it’s not just you that’s creating reality. You’re part of a larger collective called the Human Species that also has its own mind, goals, and agreements.

Inelia Benz has talked about the Human Collective at length, but she’s far from being the first.

In the Western world, psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung showed empirical evidence that the Human Species has a mind of its own, what he called the Collective Unconscious. Joseph Campbell and many others went on to extend the this work and show that every person shares the same larger mind.

Shamans, mystics, alchemists, and buddhas have also known for thousands of years that there is the One Mind of the the Universe and life itself.

So even though you’re part of a larger collective mind, it’s also important to remember that you are also an individual — a powerful one at that.

You can best control and directly influence your OWN life. Yes, you can also influence the Human Species, but that’s best done by changing aspects your life that you’re dissatisfied with in your own life first.

So if ancient philosophers and top scientists from around the world are telling us that our minds literally shape reality — and that the human species has a larger mind on its own — then a more accurate phrase when looking at modern physics (or the Cosmos in general) would be, “I am, therefore I think”.

Interestingly, this still translates into Latin as Cogito, ergo sum 🙂

But this site isn’t about training you to become a physicist or even how to read or interpret what’s going on in modern science.

What I am here to do is to distill the principles of modern science into practical, step-by-step guides that you can follow and integrate into your life so you don’t have to read the heavy stuff (unless you want to).

I’ll also show you how ancient spiritual principles from around the world are teaching the same truths that science is just starting to catch up and “prove.” Coincidence? Hardly!

So whether you’re a software engineer or stay-at-home mom (or both), I can teach you the tools to help you hack your own matrix and architect the reality of your dreams.

If there’s one thing you take away from this article, remember this: You are POWERFUL. It took millions and billions of events for you to be here and exist right now. That’s pretty remarkable. Never forget how special you truly are.