Between you and the world there is a layer. Every face, every event, every word passes through it before reaching you. You can catch it in the act: look at a stranger and notice how much you “see” — age, mood, intentions, a whole biography guessed from a coat and a walk. You don’t see. You complete the picture.

For years I assumed the matrix was somewhere around me. It clicked only later: the matrix is in the head. Not around — inside.

The world is drawn continuously by your beliefs, like the picture coming out of a projector. Problems, situations, events — the film plays from the inside out. And you are so absorbed in this film that you forget you’re watching one.

Each of us gets a personal bubble of reality. A private hallucination. We all imagine something similar — but each in our own way. The world itself is unknowable: we watch it through a headset that never comes off, limited to what the nervous system can render.

The practical consequence sounds too simple to be true. If the world you live in is a projection, the projection can be adjusted. You reconfigure the matrix by thinking about things differently. I know how that sounds. I tested it for years. You simply start having a good time, constantly.

This is the whole of esoterics in one sentence: see that you live inside your picture of the world — and repaint it.

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How deep does the projection go? All the way down. A cognitive scientist has proved, mathematically, that evolution never once showed us the world as it is. Let’s look at his math.