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3 Ways That Society Keeps You Asleep and Stuck In The Matrix

Spirit & Science
7 min readJan 3, 2025

Warning: May trigger reflection or denial. Also warning: Written without any softening or beating around the bush.

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The matrix — aka your reality and everything you know to be in your reality — is actually designed to keep you asleep and under a spell.

What does it mean to be asleep? It means you are unaware. It means that you are not cognisant of what it is that you’ve been programmed to believe. It means that you are oblivious to some things, ranging from your unconscious behaviour patterns, to the way society functions, all the way to your belief systems.

The craziest thing about being asleep is that you won’t even know you’re asleep until you’ve woken up. Only after you’ve woken up do you look back in bewilderment thinking, “How did I not see that before?”

It is important to know that everyone is asleep in some ways, even for those who are awake. You can be “woke” across many modalities and be able to see through the programming in many ways, and you can also be asleep in many too.

Here are some ways that the matrix keeps you asleep, and therefore stuck in the matrix:

1. By convincing you that money is hard to earn

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I am multifaceted: I am a lover of science & medicine, but also of spirit & mind. I enjoy exploring the dichotomy, the duality and the connectedness in between.

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