Could our reality be like a matrix simulation? If so, how do we break out?

On Howdie Mickoski’s intense book called “Exit the Cave”

[A video recording of my reading of this article can be found at the end.]

“What if you woke up one morning, say this morning, with the crazy notion that everything you had ever been told was a lie? Everything you were taught in school, from your parents, from religion, and from TV was a form of deception? That all the systems you trusted, that you believed were created for your best interest, were false? A calculated series of lies designed as a type of control mechanism, to keep you and everyone, under the spell of wizards who control this realm? What if you found that even all the areas  that seem designed to assist you, such as religion, spirituality or self-help, were all part of the deception as well?”

This opening paragraph of Howdie’s Mickoski’s book entitled ‘Exit the Cave. Ending the Reincarnation Trap’ captured my attention so much so that this weekend I couldn’t put the book down.

Earlier this year I mentioned that I intended to explore some difficult questions on this Substack, including some big Theories of Everything (TOEs). There is a plethora of new literature, both written and written-off, and many philosophical podcasts in this field. It definitely feels like the time is ripe to consider some fringe big TOEs in our quest to figure out what on earth is going on right here, right now on earth…

Howdie’s book provides new insights into Plato’s Cave analogy about our reality. In case you don’t know the analogy, it describes prisoners positioned in a cave such that they can only see the shadow on the wall in front of them, illuminated by a fire behind them. Accompanied by sounds, the prisoners believe that these shadows are real creatures.

Thus, the prisoners’ reality is defined by shadow puppets and informed by puppeteers.

One doesn’t have to be a great philosopher to see how the Plato’s Cave analogy could describe the deceptive times in which we are living. Over the past three years it has increasingly felt as if we are living the events of a movie script, or within a video game with the odds stacked against one as they are with computer games.

Little of what we have been shown or told has turned out true. From Covid to climate change, it all appears to have been designed to make us behave in a certain way; to buy a certain product or to acquiesce to a certain diktat; most of all, to make us compliant and afraid. Not only have we been deceived but I am increasingly aware of how much evil is flourishing in the dark corners of our world. There are many places where even warriors like me are afraid to shine our torches.

If our reality is like an AI simulation, like the film The Matrix, with us simply interpreting shadows on the walls of the cave so to speak, it certainly feels very real – or did until Covid, that is. I have to admit that since the Covid crisis things have become decidedly surreal!

Howdie maintains that “If you want Truth, Home, Totality, you [have to find out] Not just how the world is an illusion, but who created it and why.” He asserts that “You can’t leave Plato’s cave until you know why the cave [or simulation] was created in the first place.”

We have heard many times and from various quarters over the past 3 years that this is a Spiritual War.

Howdie notes that “One of the beliefs that the human experience has become based on is that we live in a wonderful world, made by a loving creator, a place where all our wishes can come true, so we can grow, learn and evolve.”

However, based on his personal experience and in-depth research into Gnostic and Cathar teachings, as well as modern philosophical theories, Howdie suggests otherwise. He says that our reality is more like a simulation created by an evil deity, called the Demiurge by the Gnostics. According to Howdie’s theory, when we die external entities called Archons trick us to come back to earth i.e. causing us to reincarnate, and wiping our memory clean each time. The purpose of our reincarnation is so that they can continue harvesting our energy.

Howdie suggests that like other creatures we are part of the food chain. Like mosquitoes and fish (which we conserve for energy), we provide energy for these other beings. According to this theory, the energy we provide to the Archons is spiritual energy and the energy that reaps the greatest harvest is the energy of fear.

A whole chapter is dedicated to the Cathars, who were systematically exterminated in Southern Europe during purges by the Catholic church in the early 13^th century, their books and teachings destroyed along with them. Cathars apparently believed we lived in a kind of fake reality and teachings focused on how to get out of here, believing that certain preparation for death was required to avoid the reincarnation trap.

I cannot claim to believe in reincarnation to date, having been raised in a household with traditional Anglican Christian beliefs. However, a particular experience that was discordant with my learnt religious perspective occurred when my dear friend’s sister took her own life in her early thirties. She had had a long struggle with chronic pain, that remained undiagnosed, untreatable, and unpalliated. Reflecting on the senseless suffering and loss of a beautiful, talented young woman and informed by my own fairly recent painful experience of the devastating death of my firstborn baby, I suggested to my friend that hell may well be the experience we are having here on earth.

Could this be hell? Howdie’s book seems to suggest so.

He writes, “You might say that since its inception, Plato’s Cave has been a cave of Spiritual Warfare” (page 133); and “Granted at times life is beautiful, interesting and interactive, but the foundation on pain and suffering for that is how the energy (loosh) is created for harvest. This place has never been any better, nor will it ever improve.” (page 33).

Perhaps it is the difference between being awake to the puppeteering and deception for a long time, like Howdie, and being a newbie on the block, like me – the hardened inmate versus the freshly incarcerated – that the latter rather bleak conclusion does not resonate with me at all. I feel quite profoundly that we are birthing something new. Great change is afoot. Change that will defy the controllers, whoever they are, whether megalomaniacs in this realm or another.

My heart tells me that, if we are in something akin to Plato’s Cave, something in the cave has changed and we will soon have the opportunity to exit the cave for good.

I’m going to read a little more from the book so you can get a flavour of Howdie’s argument. (Page 133) Howdie writes “If you are in the cave, one way or another, you are at war. To know what is going on means you will go along with a series of manipulations and controls set up by the Archons to keep everyone a nice docile farm animal.”

(Page 134) “This is a dual reality, as all computer realms must be (made from only 0’s and 1’s). This gets mirrored in physical reality to become the yin-yang, male-female, love-hate or up-down. A big duality that plays out [here in our earth cave reality] is good versus evil. Unlike the others which are a sort of balance (you can’t have left without right for example), it is not so with good and evil. They are a unique pair because they are not equal. Good and evil are not two sides of the same coin, the way left and right or day and night are. Both exist within this created realm, and the problem is that of good and evil, only one is a genuine creation, whereas the other is a copy…”

“Real Good does not exist within the cave, only outside this matrix simulation. Real Good cannot interact directly here as it would need to take a material form to do so, thus becoming part of the simulation and, therefore, could not still be Real Good. What it can do is drop off information, place in holographic inserts, move energy, share messages in dreams or [share them] by simple intuitive flashes. [Real Good] does not want us to fix the world, it wants us to see through it. The evil in this material realm is not a copy, and...as such is real within the simulation. Or you could say, it is the simulation. That is why relative good can rarely win here. What we call good is a copy, while that which it battles (evil), is the construct.”

Hmmm “…relative good can rarely win here” – this sentence makes a lot of sense to me sadly.

“Evil has the advantage here because it is the simulation. Real Good has the complete advantage because it does not appear directly in matter. You might say Real Good always wins, but that is because it is Absolute, Total and Complete. It contains both relative good and evil within; thus, it never truly can be in conflict or at war within itself. It is still. However, when making ‘good versus evil’ arguments, people are really not aware of the differences and parameters between Real Good, good, and evil.”

Given the evil that we currently find ourselves up against, a cautionary Howdie quote that makes good sense to me can be found on page 135, namely:

“You don’t slow evil down by fighting it directly (you become what you fight); you just “don’t play its game.”

Not playing evil’s game sounds like good advice to me. Walk away from evil. Walk a better way.

The concept that ‘Knowledge is Freedom’ also really resonates with me. It makes more sense to me than the usual phrase, ‘Knowledge is power’, which I have used many times before.

It’s the Truth about what’s been going on that is setting us free. 

It’s a pretty intense book, so it’s worth remembering that these big TOEs are but theories to be discussed, debated and allowed to breathe so that we can get closer to the truth of our time, a time, it’s becoming increasingly clear, of great revelations. There does seem to be something in this theory though. It feels like it could be an important piece of the puzzle.

For example, Howdie’s theory of us as farmed animals aligns in an unnerving way with what Yuval Noah Harari, the infamous WEF scientist, has said of us in various interviews – that human beings are hackable animals”, and that we are to be either destroyed or upgraded.

Howdie refers to human beings as currently being “upgraded to produce larger energy harvests in the future. It has nothing to do with commerce, business, or what people own. These are all mis-directions to the bigger picture. It is all about creating a new loosh human, in this case one that is part human - part robot, one that is under total control and surveillance. The so-called elites of our realm are the farmers and they work to keep us corralled and distracted until the slaughter truck comes to take us away.”

He goes on to say that Plato’s Cave is essentially “…where we have been for centuries locked away from our natural power, being a lie of ignorance.” (Page 56).

Gosh, Howdie’s message can be stark at times. He says “Until one sees that this realm is an evil artificial simulation trap of the soul (Essence), the chances of exiting are slim”.

But thankfully he writes “Righteous anger is what would be needed for change.”

I’m glad that Howdie has not entirely written us off. The desired change is possible, even from Howdie’s considered perspective, with the right amount of righteous anger.

Howdie Mickoski has left me with many things to ponder, including the nature of prayer.

Towards the end of the book Howdie relates a story about a native medicine man seeking to manifest rain through prayer. To do this, he prayed as rain, not for rain.

I’ve been praying a lot lately to manifest the resources we need for this better way journey of ours – to manifest Abundance. Howdie’s anecdote illustrated to me that I should perhaps be praying as abundance, not for abundance. Then I realized that in fact abundance is already here. An abundance flowing in unsolicited from so many directions – an abundance of goodwill, creativity and truth!

Furthermore, on my walk this evening, amidst all the chaos of this perceived reality, it was possible to feel, walking across fields of buttercups and bluebells magnificent in their abundance, that heaven is no longer a faraway illusory ideal; heaven is right here, right now on earth.

My take-home message from Howdie’s book is that we can’t win the ‘good versus evil’ spiritual war inside the cave, the game is rigged, and the computer always wins. We need to get out of the cave and find Real Good. This will depend on us doing some internal work, remembering who we are, remembering we are sovereign, and then being true to ourselves. The way out is in. Ultimately, I have a feeling that the Real Good Howdie speaks of is the better world that we will create when we actively choose a better way.

You can learn more about the author and his research here. And if you enjoyed this esoteric article and podcast as a paid subscriber, please let me and others know too. I plan to continue investigating big TOEs (and little TOEs) and you are most welcome to come along for the adventure.

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