Well, it had to be asked…

I think from now on I'm going to actually ask people that question before I even try to wake them up. At least then I know whether or not they'll have a receptive mind without having to exhaust my efforts on someone who's asleep and really really wants to stay asleep. It's an inquisitive nature that us humans have, we want to know what's behind all the doors. Most people only think there are two doors, based solely on the manufactured perception of a left / right, good / evil paradigm. The reality is that there are an infinate number of doors. What's behind one door is not necessarily better than what's behind another. We can't and won't know until we walk through it and make the choice to have that experience.

I can see it in people's faces when I talk to them, in most cases their face changes from an expression firstly of amusement (because at first they don't actually think you're being serious). Then comes amazement followed closely by fear. 'How can this be?' is the question I can see in their eyes. It's at that very moment that the seed is planted and they either start fighting it with their belief structure or they start to accept it as being a possiblility and want more information.

The reason I decided to write about this is because yesterday I was watching the Animatrix, one of the stories is about a training exercise to test if someone who 'woke up' would go back to the life they had before, the life of ignorance and being asleep. Watching it made me think what it would be like to go back to that way of thinking. There are times when I think life might be 'easier' or less complex if I hadn't woken up. Then I realised that I wouldn't want to lose the knowledge that I have gained. Once you wake up, you can't go back to sleep, and you know you can't, but that doesn't stop you wishing sometimes that maybe you could.