Last week at the Young Clergy for Social Change meeting, one of our members spoke about his efforts to “unplug from the matrix“. Citing the Matrix movie series, he posited that too many people give far too much time to the television and radio. According to him, feeding your brain with the “junk food” that comes over the airwaves and through the screen has a detrimental impact on how one views him/herself, others, and the world. He has a group of students called “The Genius Movement” and they have (at various levels) unplugged from the matrix as well.
I agree with his position and have too decided to unplug from the matrix.
In thinking of his commitment to unplug; I was reminded today about the book of Romans chapter 12 which warns us about conforming to this world and challenges us to seek transformation. The writer suggests that transformation begins with your mind. (Romans 12:2)
Not only does the biblical writer know that, but I believe that the government of the United States and corporate America knows that. That’s why they invest so much money into trying to influence your thinking - modify your perceptions – and provide you with your opinion. (instead of you doing the critical thinking necessary to create your own opinion)
One of my favorite rap artist/activist speaks on this regularly as well. Immortal Technique in his song “The 4th Branch ” talks about how the media is in partnership with the government to control your thinking and thus control your actions. (not a far fetched concept – the government is on record to have endorsed mind control research called MK-Ultra) For example, the media took its cues from the Bush Administration on what to call our military engagement of Iraq. Thus the media called it, “Operation Iraqi Freedom” as opposed to calling it a name that would be more accurate such as “Operation Iraqi Invasion“, “Operation Iraqi Occupation” or “Operation Iraqi Holocaust“.
The battle for our minds is real and we would do well to guard our minds from images, music, and messages that are antithetical to the morals, principles, and values that represent the best virtues of the human family and are considered universal truths by various Faith traditions.
Here is how I have decided to increase my level of disconnection from the matrix:
- I will not turn on the television first thing in the morning to watch anything with the exception of getting information on the weather for the day.
- I will not watch television right before going to bed at night.
- I will read a book, magazine, or article of substance every day.
- I will recycle.
- I will fast from meat one week out of each month.
- I will exercise at least once a week.
- I will not listen to the radio during the day except to gather intelligence for the coming campaign to cleanse Black radio of its filth.
- Fast food is forbidden.
- I will begin to research how I can grow my own fruits and vegetables for personal consumption and/or sale.
May the words of South Afrikan freedom figher, Steve Biko, (who was killed by the police for thinking for himself) remain with us:
“The greatest weapon in the arsenal of the Oppressor is the mind of the Oppressed.”
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yah know the more I read about the Young Clergy the more impressed I am not only with its members but the organization as a whole.
Several years ago I put a stop to television watching. Occasionally I watch nature show. I do watch PBS Sprout with my daughter. Great Content! Excellent values!
I like your list.
Awesome stuff! I agree. I teach sabbath school at my church, and I am pullling together a lesson that has been on my heart for the past year now using the intrinsic themes found in the matrix.
I tell if you want to hide something (especially the truth)…hide it in plain sight!
were and how can i get unplugged? please help me!
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Thats how i do and u can consider this as my personal experience. I hope it is going to be helpful for you my dear friends. First step i did is i solved some issues within my family relationships, friends, employer, and society in general. I gone tru severe personal transformation and basically lost everything i mentioned above. I can confirm the basics given by others. Diet is very important but it is hard and requires a lot of money which i cant affrod so far but keeping eating clean habit. body ia a temple of your soul. yoga is paramount. why? because it stabilizes your energy balance and removing astarl entities. It will balance your right brain and left along with a help of sacred geometry videos. After, if you remember the cage Neo was in and those wires, they exist on a hyperdimensional level, when u start unplugging by keeping clean and doing mystic yoga not some commersial yoga bullshit offered by matrix, you will start removing those energy wires by solving realtionsship with people around you and thus clean ur energy levels. u wanna know more? this is called practice… ufc.balls@gmail.com
First step – turn off the television. If you must watch “unAmerican” tv tune into BBC and CSPAN.
If you really want to unplug then you must change your diet! The amount of chemicals and bad sugars in most food today is drugging us and we don’t even realise it. Please do some research, look up Aspartme, sodiul laureal sulphate, MSG,(to name only 3 out of thousands) then you will fully undrstand how much danger as a society we are in.
Go organic, detox yourself, eat fruit and veg, nuts and grains, not oly will you fell better, your mind will be clearer.
You can’t heal the mind without healing the body.
sorry for the stregth of this post, but I understand where you are comming from totally, and just wanted to share my views.
Thanks
willow
willow, you are aboslutly correct, the diet must change in this country, food is in the top 5 positions for causeing the most deaths in this country, if we dont do somthing soon we will loose this fight, i have officialy dedicated my life to bring out the truth on the "food epidemic" in this country, but i need moral support, i just need more poeple to talk to, to know i am not alone in this world, danielmjohnson4@yahoo.com please anytime
Passionate comments are welcome here, Willow. No need to apologize. I’m on my way to cleaning up my diet as well.
http://faithinactiononline.com/2006/10/04/my-path-to-a-more-healthy-diet/
You’re right on with your strong encouragement.
I visit a local 7-11 to buy my daily Baltimore Sun, USA Today, and sometimes The Washington Post or the New York Post. I read out of town papers as well as the local ones since I used to deliver them as a child. Anyway, the guy who is the owner of this particular 7-11 is Muslim and he and his staff are always very cordial. This particular day he asked me if he could ask me something. He said “Brother, why do you purchase all that stress every day?” I did not catch what he was saying at first. He went on to explain about of the negative news that is always on the front page of the papers. I never looked at it like that. I am hopelessly set in my ways about reading the news but he made a very good point. I listen to a lot of music and I would encourage listening to a lot of jazz, not smooth jazz but real jazz such as Coltrane, Miles, Monk, Armstrong, Ella, Dinah and the other greats who once you tune in to them, it is a great stress reliever and can open your mind. Y
yay… appreciate you for writing about this. You make me happy today…
Ha I found this article thinking to myself the same steps you put down to un-plug. It's all going to be about living naturally and being able to survive. I also believe you are going to either be able to grow extra food to trade with, or have some other skill that will be needed, because when money is worth nothing how else will we trade. P.s. I love electro music, most of it has a really uplifiting message, plus it's created by people that share most of our same views.. i think.. weve been warped as humans its very sad that someone is trying to keep us from reaching our greatest existance possible, prevent us from evoloving, just so they can keep control over us… for money, and control.. i still dont understand why they want to control us? Let's just say we all decieded to do whatever the government wanted us to ( we'll we do that already, with very few freedoms) but I mean like work for nothing slave away and die.. we'll i guess those in control would continue to be in control but how would they evolve? or would they evolve through technology rather then phiscally? oh man im confusing myself.. i;m gunna go now please comment back.
Thank you for your comment, dvonstein. I agree with you that it's going to be imperative that people get back to what is called "simple living". Growing and eating your own food, making your own clothes, building what you need, etc. We have become dangerously dependent on the corporate class and are now subject to their whims. Only when we reclaim our ability to do and think for self will we be free. Thanks again.
A good update Rev., but I think that the Matrix also has to include Facebook and Twitter. Modern day tracking devices. Modern technology that is fun and simple. But at what cost? I have no crucial need to know what you are doing at any given time or no need to know anytime you log on or plug into the "Matrix". Not you per se, everyone. This thing is getting closer and closer to an Orwellian society.