Alternative Religion/ features/ Resources

All opinions presented are those of their respective authors, and not those of your Guide.

Dreams:

• Dream Skepticism
• The Matrix of Dreams
• Reflections on the first Matrix
• The Matrix Manipulation of Dreams

Reality:

• Where is the real matrix?
• Reality, what matters, and the Matrix
• Brains in vats and the evil demon
• The experience machine
• The Matrix and Quantum Consciousness

Buddhism & Gnosticism in the Matrix:

• The Matrix, Philip K. Dick's "Valis," Nag Hammadi, Gnosism, and The Essenes
• The Matrix - A Modern Gnostic Myth
• Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix
• Buddhism in the Matrix Reloaded
• Wake up! - Gnosticism & Buddhism and the Matrix
• Gnosis Reloaded
• The Matrix reprogrammed: It's the end of the world as they know it
• Wake up Neo ! (again)
• Is the Matrix a Gnostic Film?
• The New Gnostic Gospel (from a Catholic perspective)
• The Gnostic Matrix (From an evangelical Christian source)

Mythology in the Matrix:

• 'Dying and Reviving Gods' in The Matrix

Other religious themes:

• The Matrix, Religion, and Philosophy
• The Matrix and nondual spirituality
• Thoughts on the Matrix
• Neuromancer meets The Last Temptation of Christ
• Gnosticism Reborn: The Matrix As Shamanic Journey
• Is the movie "The Matrix" about the Christianity Meme?

Man and machines:

• The human/Machine merger: Are we headed for the Matrix?
• The Matrix - Our Future?

Baudrillard and the Matrix:

• The Matrix Metaphor
• Glitches Reloaded
• The Matrix and Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulations"
• Baudrillard and Hollywood: subverting the mechanism of control and The Matrix
• Evil Demons, Saviors, and Simulacra

Philosophy:

• The Matrix and The Question of God: Rene Decartes' Mind vs. Body Dichotomy
• Plato's Allegory Of The Cave
• The Metaphysics of The Matrix

Symbolism:

• The Symbolic Use Of Color in the matrix
• What Does It All Mean: Symbolism in The Matrix
• Down the Rabbit hole Alice in Wonderland themes
• Literary and Allusions and Symbolism of THE MATRIX

Miscellaneous:

• Wake Up Neo: The Development of the Ego-Self Relationship Jungian
• Following the Crowd (symbolic order)
• Glitches in the Matrix- and how to fix them
• Glitches Reloaded
• Escaping the Matrix (a political perspective)
• Gnostic Cinema: The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded (audio lecture by Dr. Hoeller of the Gnostic Society)

Related topics:

• Gnostic Hollywood
• When Machines Outsmart Humans
• Rene Descartes and the Legacy of the Mind/Body Dualism
• Alchemical Kubrick
• A.I. and Kabbalah
• A Beautiful Mind, Vanilla Sky, Waking Life
• Bruce Willis as the Messiah: Human Effort, Salvation and Apocalypticism in Twelve Monkeys