Taking the Red Pill

Escaping the Illusion

In the third verse of Joni Mitchell’s wonderful song ‘Both Sides Now’, which I think I first heard at an Ise of Wight Festival way back in the day, she sings “it’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know life at all”. Find it on YouTube and listen, especially if you’ve not heard it before.

If you’ve seen and remember the film ‘The Matrix’ you may have some idea of what I’m talking about this week. You might also get an insight into this from the 1927 movie ‘Metropolis’, a classic of its time, indeed together with the 1936 ‘Things to Come’, of any time.

Watch these ‘old movies’ not only are they entertaining, they, and others, carry the same message every known religion is attempting to give us, even though most of them get it slightly ‘wrong’!

Essentially, as explained and illustrated by these and many more authors and songwriters, there are two states of ‘being’ – illusion and reality.

But which is which? Which state is ‘normal’ and which is ‘weird’?

It all depends on your ‘point of view’ and unfortunately this is where conflict begins; not to say there isn’t some ‘conflict’ within each state as maybe there are ‘alternative’ illusions and ‘alternative’ realities – which is where we start to “boldly go . . .” (you know the rest!)

The thing is, if we want to live long and prosper you and I have to make a decision: the red pill or the blue pill? Whether to take the blue pill and stay in the comfortable and ‘normal’ life of illusion following the established rules and templates, which of course change as time goes on, or to take the red pill and break away from the comfortable and well ‘understood ‘normal into the unknown territory of reality.

There’s a problem with this, when you or I are embedded in the ‘illusion’ we think it’s ‘real’ and as Dumbledore explained to Harry on Kings Cross Station “Of course it’s all going on in your head but that doesn’t mean it’s not real”.
This is the dilemma. Our illusion of reality is ‘real’, it IS ‘life as we know it’. It IS the summit of our evolution, but Joni nailed it – it is after all an illusion.

Take the blue pill and stay where you are in the illusion, your illusion, whatever it entails – it’s safe and secure. But what happens when you take the red pill?

A word or two of warning here. If you take the red pill (or the blue one) you can’t go back. It’s one way or the other. You’ll never get a second chance to take the other pill.

Taking the Red Pill

At first things won’t seem a lot different except you’ll begin to notice yourself being an ‘observer’ to what’s going on. The ‘real’ world doesn’t look a lot different to the ‘illusion’ world because it’s YOU which changes, not the world.

One of the first feelings I experienced was the joy of not having to do ‘that’ anymore, whatever it was, and of being able to go my own way, do what I wanted and most of all not having to ‘fit in’.

Taking the red pill makes you an observer of the ‘real illusion’ world and then we start to evolve in a different direction and ‘dimension’. I don’t have ‘time’ right now to go into the detail of what this means which is one of the reasons why I’ve created The Freedom Academy to guide you in what to do and how to do it and fully understand what ‘taking the red pill’ means.

Taking the red pill opens up a whole new world, a ‘real’ world of being. You have a choice, take the blue pill and stay where you are or take the red pill and move on!