Czyx; I just watched this movie, and you are quite right - it doesn't provoke the viewer to go out and do further learning exercises.
However - it certainly does make one aware that reality isn't quite what we thought it was.
Slowly it seems science is catching up to, and beginning to share the same perspective of reality as many spiritual teachings have professed for millennia.
This is a very good thing indeed. Reality comprises of many differing aspects some physical others non-physical. Reality isn't always as it appears on the surface. Zen has taught this for thousands of years, because it views the world in a non-physical, non-egocentric way.
We must also not confuse Physical Reality with the evils that have been commited within physical reality. Physical science and reality themselves do not commit evil; rather that evil is commited by mans own hand of ignorance (which leads to all other forms of negativity).
For those that live purely from a physical perspective and thus rely only upon science, it was only a matter of time before science evolved to perceive the same thing as Zen has. Thus Quantum Science.
The problem isn't in the physical science. Physical knowledge has finally allowed us to peak into the non-physical. Because by its very nature reality is comprised of both the physical and the non-physical. This means two things:
1) We cannot ignore one aspect at the expense of the other. To elaborate; we must not follow Physical Reality and ignore the Spiritual. Likewise, we must not follow only Spiritual Reality and ignore the Physical.
2) True understanding of Spirituality shows that reality is both physical and non-physical. It can therefore only follow, that eventually true and complete understanding of Physical Reality will also show reality to be both physical and non-physical.
Thus we have finally became able (which was entirely obvious) to arrive at the same conclusion by following two different paths (Spiritual and Physical) to their ends. At which point we discover they merge into a oneness.
Therefore the problem is not by which path one achieves wakefulness. We may sit on a mountain under a tree for nine years, or watch a movie about Quantum Physics. It is all the very same thing.
The true problem is in how these different approaches are used and conveyed.
The movie conveys the nature of reality very, very well. But it implies (though categorically does not state!) that when one awakens (reaches enlightenment) that it is the conclusion (and self serving). This is obviously faulty.
However the ultimate fact is that this movie brings with it a new message to the masses; one which can serve to awaken!
Perhaps ultimately we can always look for hidden agenda’s behind each and every message, but sometimes the very fact that these messages serve a certain (higher?) purpose defeats that very agenda. Further if one gets too caught up in examining this agenda, they are being as much manipulated by that agenda as those that fall into it.
For example, the Matrix is designed to keep us asleep. But without the Matrix we would have no point of reference in order to understand what it is like to be awake. Thus through suppression, the Matrix serves a higher purpose which is counter to its own agenda.
This ultimately can be the only result of this movie, and any techno-spirituality.
That which enslaves, also teaches us the true expression of freedom. Not because it is evil, and neither because it is good. But simple because the nature of existence can ultimately only serve its own purpose, it is not able to be contrary to itself.
Only in the relative short-term and from a human perspective is its nature “evil“?.
That is something to bear in mind when we see these people that only appear to wish to harm the evolution of the human race. They are wrong for sure, and yes they should be fought or stopped etc. But in the final end-game; they can do nothing but serve the evolution of man’s spiritual growth.
And ultimately, this movie is one more step along that path…even if it does place a few obstacles and suppressions further along that path. They will be dealt with after they have been reached. Just as in the same way, more and more people are beginning to awaken due to the increasingly overt nature of the Matrix.
I believe the whole problem of when the human race awakens as a whole is not if it will happen…but rather when and how it will happen. The inner knowledge of an awakened mind shows that global awakening can do nothing but happen.
Thus our concern is reduced to how these negative agendas affect individuals in the day-to-day world, and in the short to medium term. Long term and for the human race as a whole, the negative agendas are doomed to failure…
