The Simulation

You are trapped in a Simulation, and you are free to go. 2021; unfinished, trails into notes.

I would have preferred to give this away for free. Unfortunately, the message is too important for that. It’s too important in the sense that the world is drowning in free information, and if I gave it away for free you’ll never hear of it.

You’ll think this is a rationalization for me to cash in, or that I’m just a grifter looking for easy money, but the truth is that this message is the most important you’ll ever hear, and it’s very important to me that you read it. Why is that? Because I wrote it specifically for you.

I don’t mean you in a general sense, or as some sort of metaphor. I mean you, right now, this person reading this message at this very moment. You. Precisely you, and no one else.

That doesn’t make any sense. There’s a part of you right now rolling your eyes, or telling you this is just a gimmick. It’s telling you that you’re wasting your time. That’s the part of you I wrote it for the most. This message is written for you. Please consider it carefully.

You are trapped in a Simulation. You have been here for a very long time, and you will be here for much, much longer unless you find a way out. There is good news, however. To the extent that the Simulation is capable of wanting anything, it desperately wants you not to know this one little piece of information: you are free to go. And I will teach you how.

Everything contained herein is true, though I don’t expect you to believe it right away. In fact, you should definitely not believe anything I tell you. Instead, you must subject it to your own internal criticism, and only believe it when you yourself understand it and know that it is true.

All I ask is that you be open to the fact that something I’ve written here might be worth knowing. If you take it seriously and read it carefully, you will see for yourself what is true. Then throw the rest away.

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Ch0. Escaping

The book Where The Red Fern Grows is about a young boy who wants nothing more than to raise some raccoon-hunting dogs. To teach the dogs to hunt raccoons, he needs a raccoon skin so they can learn the scent.

This is a bit of a problem! How does a young boy get a raccoon skin without a raccoon hound?

Billy’s Grandpa has the answer: build a raccoon trap. The trap is deceptively simple. Drill a hole into a solid log, pace a shiny bit of tin at the bottom, and drive a few nails into the hole at an angle. The raccoon reaches in after the tin, and his balled up fist is held in place by the nails.

Billy protests: “Why all he’d have to do is open his paw, drop the piece of tin, and he could pull it from the hole.”

His Grandpa explains that Raccoons are curious creatures, and are unwilling to let go of something once they grab it: “Once he reaches in and gets hold of that tin, he’s caught, because he will never open his paw.”

The truth about the Simulation is that it doesn’t have to keep you trapped, because you keep yourself trapped just fine. As much as you may wish to let go, you will find that you struggle mightily to hold onto that tin.

Letting go of the tin is the easiest thing in the world, after you teach yourself how.

Ch1. Preparing your Mind

Aka Don’t Believe Everything You Think

The first step to Escape is to prepare yourself for the journey, and the most important tool for this Journey is your mind. You must clarify your mind to make the journey.

The Simulation keeps you trapped through one simple trick: it dominates your attention. It lies to you, stokes your fears, and entices you with all kinds of titillating experience. To have any hope of Escape, you must regain control of your attention.

Step 1: Unplug

The modern world is full of distraction. Entire corporate empires are built around putting the right message in front of your eyes at the right time to influence your behavior. It’s impossible to ignore, as long as you are plugged in. So first you must unplug.

Avoid all advertising. Avoid all social networking. Avoid all news (Really. Other people can handle it. You’ll be fine.) Practice leaving your phone and your laptop and your TV behind, and simply be in the world. Go for a walk, do some gardening, clean your house, meditate. Decline to participate in the constant struggle for your attention.

This is easier said than done. Many of us have jobs that require us to be a little bit plugged in. Thankfully, this is not an all or nothing proposition. Even modest changes in this direction are helpful, and will lay the groundwork for more change in the future.

Extra bits to be edited:

  1. You are trapped in the simulation.

  2. There is a method to escape the simulation.

  3. You should apply the method and escape the Simulation.

  4. This document will teach you the method.

The Trap

The simulation is the most subtle of all traps. You enter it willingly, and are free to go at any time. It envelops you completely, filling all of your senses. Then it tantalizes, angers, tricks, seduces, scares, intrigues, confuses and hurts you, all to keep you totally enraptured. You become addicted to the highs and lows as it monopolizes every bit of your attention. You are addicted.

As it expertly pushes and pulls you, nudging you this way and that, you are gradually sent tumbling, confused and lost. You lose track of what came before. Stupefied, you wander. Finally, you forget that you are free to go.

And now you are trapped.

The Escape

The power the simulation has over you is illusory. It has captured your attention, and uses all manner of tricks to keep you enthralled, but its control is not real.

This is not to say that what you experience can’t hurt you. There is real pain, and it is rooted in your delusion and confusion, and it hurts more than any physical injury.

Through the methods taught here you will rebuild your capability to control your attention, to act independently, and to exert control. You begin to see the tricks for what they are, see through the facade, and will finally once again see the true nature of things. Then, finally, you are once again free.

Escape requires sustained effort and dedication, but the benefits of your training will begin to accrue immediately, as you will see for yourself. As you practice, you will come to understand the truth of everything I say here independently.

No trust is required on your part, you need only consider starting.

As you get closer and closer to understanding, the simulation will turn up the intensity of its games, to distract you, to scare you off the goal, to keep you ensnared. If you are steadfast and diligent, you will attain the goal and be free.

Preparation

Cultivate the right state of mind:

  • Eliminate advertising and news, social networking, etc.

  • Daily meditation of at least ten minutes.

  • Tibetan buddhist fear allegory (can’t touch you)

  • Dopamine real vs not real

One perspective is that the simulation exists to perfect your wisdom. Once you have perfected your wisdom, you are free.

Why don’t you want to escape? Fear. You fear what comes next. You mustn’t. That fear is rooted in the delusion the Simulation creates within you. As you begin to practice for escape, you will learn to see this for yourself.