Hello! This is Cynthia Sue Larson
of realityshifters.com and today I'm talking about a glitch in the
Matrix. In the movie, The Matrix, there was a scene
where one of the characters, Neo, was commenting to Trinity that
he'd just had a déjà vu, that's what he called it,
and he'd seen a black cat twice. When Trinity questioned him about it,
then she said, "That's usually... déjà vu is usually a glitch in in the Matrix that
usually happens before or during a time when there's been a change in the Matrix.
The reason I'm mentioning this experience is because that "glitch in the Matix" is becoming
a phrase that a lot of people are using when they talk about much more than just seeing
something repeating, which isn't so much a déjà vu actually. When you see a black cat
going through twice, that's not technically a déjà vu. That's actually what I would
call a "Groundhog Day Effect" where something is actually repeating, like you're caught
in a circle or a cycle of reality where things are repeating in a sequence, and I've had
that happen a couple of times. Once I was in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the lobby of
a hotel room. I noticed a woman come into the lobby. She was wearing a certain set of
clothing; a very nice dress. We were there for a conference. I was speaking with a couple
of other people, and this woman walked right past us.
Then count for a couple of beats, and then the door opens. Another woman who looks exactly
like the first one wearing exactly the same clothes and exactly the same mannerisms, everything.
Body movement, emotional composition of the face... every
single detail the same... starts walking past us again. So I stop and question her, and
ask if she'd just come through a bit earlier. She didn't know what we were talking about.
A couple of us had definitely observed this. And that's what I would call not so much a
déjà vu as like I said, a Groundhog Day Effect. And also, I've seen the same situation
occur at another occasion when I was at a friend's house and someone was giving a business
card to the hostess. The entire scene played out almost exactly the same just a couple
of moments later. And the reason I think these things are happening, if you're wondering,
"What is going on... if that's not déjà vu?"... and technically it's not déjà vu.
It's more what I would definitely call a glitch in the Matrix, sure. It's referring to a situation
where... you can think of it in terms of quantum physics. I think that's the easiest way to
visualize the entire situation. Think in terms of all of what we know from quantum physics
to be true, in which you can have particles that blip in and out of existence--literally.
You can have entanglement of quantum particles. You've got particles that aren't even particles
all the time; they go into an energy state. And then we've got physicists who come up
with a whole bunch of different theories as to what's going on, including possibility of many worlds.
That's Hugh Everett III's suggestion, that we've got parallel universes going on. Another
possibility would be one that I very much enjoy, called Transactional Interpretation.
That's physicist John Cramer at the University of Seattle, Washington.
That theory has to do with the handshake between past and present point in space-time shaking
hands and corroborating and coming together. Regardless which of these theories--there
are several others as well--it doesn't really matter which of the quantum theories happens
to be correct. We don't really know; maybe several of them combined. But what we do know
for sure is that we are noticing macroscopic effects of quantum mechanics on an everyday,
viewable level of reality. And I write about a lot of these in my book, "Reality Shifts:
When Consciousness Changes the Physical World," including this idea of the Groundhog Day Effect.
And things appear, disappear, transform and transport. You may have noticed things like
a sock going missing in the laundry, and you don't know what happened because you can't
find it anywhere. You might put your keys down in one place and come back and find that
they're gone or they've moved to some other location. These are glitches in the Matrix,
and I'd like you just to consider what is happening around you that you may have not
noticed and not really fully paid attention to because it just seemed too weird. But when
you start thinking about it a little bit more, you really may have experienced what we're
calling a glitch in the Matrix--a reality shift. It's also known by the names: Mind-Matter
Interaction, quantum jumping... and these are all synonymous names for the same kind
of thing. So give that some thought, and this is Cynthia Sue Larson with RealityShifters.
(coughing) A little bit of Spring fever here! Until next time, keep asking "How good can
it get?" and I hope you'll let me know if you've noticed any glitches in the Matrix.
Thanks so much.