Amazing things to learn from the movie Matrix about spiritual healing and awakening :
1-The initial doubt: Like Neo, the insider begins to feel that something is wrong. Doubt is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Carl Jung said, “Man does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the shadow conscious.”
2-Confronting the truth: The insider discovers that the material world is just a facade. In the Matrix, this illusion is materialized by the matrix itself, a program designed to keep humanity in check.
3-Symbolic death: When Neo is “unplugged” from the matrix, he suffers a symbolic death. This is an essential step of any initiation: dying to the old self in order to be reborn to a higher state of consciousness. Joseph Campbell, in The Hero with a Thousand and One Faces, explains: “Initiation is a descent into the unknown, where the old world is destroyed so that the new can emerge.” “
4-Mastering the real: Neo learns to manipulate the rules of the matrix. This is the ultimate stage of initiation, where the individual realizes that his conscience creates his reality.
As Eckhart Tolle explains in The Power of the Present Moment: “True freedom lies in the realization that you are not your mental.” And we have the power of choice!
