Game
“Play, gentlemen, play.” That’s what Baron Munchausen said, if I’m not mistaken. And really, why not? Why not live your life playfully, structuring it like a theatrical performance where the main, secondary, and all other roles are played by just one person? He is the leader, the navigator, the dispatcher, and he is also an ordinary passenger sitting in the back seat (of course, buckled up) and silently observing the process. So why not relax and enjoy?
Of course, fulfilling this requirement to the fullest is not always possible, because, as we know, life is not just an easy walk under a clear blue sky and far from always sweet, fluffy cotton candy in taste. Life in the Matrix is not a piece of cake, “and death is not a cup of tea for us,” as the famous Russian rocker Yuri Shevchuk sang. But we are not “sugar” either and shouldn’t “melt” for any reason or without one. Yes, for now we are (“awakened”) prisoners: “unwilling entertainers” at someone else’s celebration of life, organized and sponsored by the System and its loyal agents. But even at Satan’s ball, it is not at all necessary to dance and show loyalty to this disrespectful crowd with the heads of animals, birds, and invented mythical monsters.
For example, you can simply approach the bar, have a shot of something strong, chat with beautiful girls, and do something like that. Of course, you’ll have to move a bit to the rhythm of the booming music in the hall and smile at the passing “sleepers,” but nothing more than that. It’s normal, no one will judge you for it or kick you out of the celebration. In everyday life, we also rarely say things we actually think, while smiling at the interlocutor we don’t always like.
Moreover, no one around suspects that the “awakened” are not just random passengers on this “flight” or invited guests at the ball, numerous friends-colleagues of the hosts of the “feast.” In this, we have a huge advantage over this entire “gang.” It’s our little secret. We know who they are, but they don’t know who we are.
Information that you can find in my book – is not a propaganda or imposition of my philosophy on anyone. Rather, it is an informational guide “for beginners.” This is a guide for those who are still “asleep” but want to “wake up.” And also for those who are “waking up,” but are still unsure or not entirely confident about what to do and how to act in the new realities that have opened up to them.
A helper for those who feel with every cell of their body and every fiber of their soul that there has always been something wrong with this world, something that cannot be simply explained in two or three sentences. And this thought, this obsession, is like a splinter lodged in their mind, refusing to let them rest.
So, the game. In the previous part of the book, I have already briefly analyzed this way of exiting the Matrix. In the section “Sports”, for example, I particularly emphasized the point that, while playing, a person only temporarily leaves the boundaries of the System. But why is that? Why only temporarily? Let’s figure it out.
When a person is completely absorbed in a game (regardless of whether it’s a sports game, a computer game, an intellectual game, or any other type), he is temporarily in another space and dimension. Excitement, immense interest, the construction of other worlds in real time, the player’s identification with the game’s characters, the team, the various tasks and conditions of the game — all of this, one way or another, affects the state of consciousness of the player. More precisely, it changes his state, shifting, if one can put it that way, his “point of assembly”.
Now he is no longer just an ordinary statistician-observer Ivan Petrov or John Smith, but a person answering questions in the game “What? Where? “When?” (sitting in an armchair at home), an intellectual solving a complex Japanese crossword or a shooter in the computer game “Counter-Strike,” mercilessly eliminating his opponents in street combat.
But there is one danger here. To become addicted to the game itself. How many examples of this do we know? Moreover, this applies not only to computer games.
Look at what “gamers” (in the broadest sense of the term) become: those who play in casinos, on betting platforms, on the stock exchange, sports fanatics (in the negative sense of the word: for example, bodybuilders who go to the gym six times a week and pump not their biceps, but rather their excessive pride) for the sake of results and medals, ruining their health and living on doping and steroids, as well as victims of virtual reality, who due to their chronic computer addiction evolve backward, eventually turning into “vegetables”.
Playing the game called life, it is extremely important to listen to your inner feelings, to your intuition, to what it says. If it says that a particular game is not addictive, promotes the development of strategic and abstract thinking, and also provides an unforgettable ocean of positive emotions, then everything is fine. If there is even the slightest doubt, the game should be immediately discontinued and, possibly, after a short break, the entire process should be started over.
Another important criterion, in my opinion (in the context of gaming experiences), by which a person should select a game they are going to play: it should be “his” game. There is even a TV show called “Own Game.” I don’t know how to describe it in ordinary words. It must be a deeply personal experience, one that immediately evokes an inner need in a person to exclaim, “Yes, this is it!”.
Perhaps something similar is felt by an adept who has finally found his true Teacher (not in the school sense of the word, of course) after many years of searching and wandering; or a man who meets an old friend he hasn’t seen since childhood, experiencing the full spectrum of emotions and memories that come flooding back; or an individual who has discovered his true calling in life and is only now beginning to truly live, fully experiencing the fullness of existence. Only in this case will it be a game where the main stake is breaking free from the System. A game that definitely worth it.
The game is a two-sided coin: on one hand, it helps to exit the Matrix, but on the other hand, it’s an exit, but the question is, where to? My answer is a journey into an even stranger reality, a Matrix within a Matrix, so to speak. And it’s not even certain that a man will exit this “new” Matrix without losses.
So, let’s not look for reasons or additional excuses that only complicate life; instead, let’s focus on our immediate task: finding a way out of the labyrinth called the System. And this is no longer a game.
The Book of Your Life
“Stepping outside the System is not an open, destructive war. It is the creation of an underground, far-reaching network of free people united by a single noble goal.”