 | The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief by Gregg Braden
Buy used from: $4.15 Braden sees The Matrix as good, akin to the "cosmic web" neo-pagan religions believe connects everything in the universe. I'm mostly listing this here because I have enjoyed other books by this author. This is his newest title. If you're seeking info on a "darker Matrix," keep scrolling!
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 | The Simplest Path to Personal and Planetary Awakening Step One:: FREE YOUR MIND by Jr., Vincent Casspriano
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $13.99 The author never mentions "The Matrix," but he describes the same metaphysical structure, only instead of machines being in charge, it's "memes" - viral, parasitic thought forms first hypothesized by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. THIS IS NOT FICTION. Casspriano shows exactly how memes control our minds, and provides a step by step guide to breaking their control and "waking up."
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 | Like a Splinter in Your Mind: The Philosophy Behind the Matrix Trilogy by Matt Lawrence
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $10.00 Matt Lawrence brings a philosopher's insight to all three of the Matrix films, giving us a better appreciation of the trilogy, and a solid grasp of key issues in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, race and gender, existentialism, Taoism and mysticism. Casspriano's book is better, though, because it's not just a movie critique. It's real.
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 | Beyond the Matrix: Revolutions and Revelations by Stephen Faller
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.32 Stephen Faller parallels the conceptions of Andy and Larry Wachowski-The Matrix creators-with those of such visionaries as Socrates, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Freud, Orwell, Huxley, and Spielberg, exploring the Matrix as an expression of the fears, the quests, and the dreams that human kind has struggle to define and conquer.
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 | Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism by Kurt Rudolph
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $3.98 The ancient Gnostics saw the world pretty much the same way it is portrayed in "The Matrix," sans, of course, the machine angle. Read this book, then the Nag Hammadi codexes, and you'll see that human biengs have been in the possession of the red pill for millennia...
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 | The Nag Hammadi Library by James M. Robinson
Buy new: $16.07 / Used from: $4.92 The original Gnostic source. This is not a New Age compilation. It is the best translation around of real ancient texts discovered buried in a clay jar at Nag Hammadi (thus the name given the codex).
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 | Valis by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $3.99 Philip K. Dick is a science fiction author who personally woke up to the reality of the Matrix long before the movie was ever made (PKD died in 1982). VALIS, which is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, is Phil's novelized acount of his encounter with awakened reality circa 1974. An amazing work of metaphysical fiction.
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