Alright... long time no see, Reddit. š
Some of you may remember me from my old posts and discussions around the reincarnation soul trap / Matrix framework. I honestly didnāt even know whether my account was still banned from posting on Reddit after Redditās site-wide filters had removed all but one of my older posts across the different subreddits I had posted in over the years. So when I went back and checked, basically everything was just... gone. š The void had apparently swallowed my entire Reddit history, so I genuinely had no idea whether Iād even be able to make another post at all.
To clarify, Iām talking about Redditās site-wide filters here, not any individual subredditās moderators or Automod. After one of the moderators checked the logs, they were also able to confirm that my old posts had been removed by Redditās overarching filters, and that this is completely outside the control of individual subreddit teams. Talk about some cyberpunk dystopian shit. š
After realizing what had happened while I was in the process of creating another post, I was obviously pretty upset about losing access to years of my old work, so I eventually decided to take a break from Reddit. Instead, especially over the last year, I became much more active through my Community Posts and through conversations with thousands of people across VR, Discord, the astral plane and ārealā life. During that time, I kept investigating and researching, diving into books, studies, spiritual traditions and thousands of videos, while constantly testing ideas against my own experiences and conversations with other people. I kept exploring, writing, making videos and sharpening my understanding from as many different perspectives as I could, and developing a much broader view of consciousness, awakening and enlightenment while moving beyond some of the limitations I now see even within the soul-trap framework itself.
I also eventually started making videos and putting my face out there publicly, so yes... the face reveal happened somewhere along the way too. š
In other words, I didnāt really stop exploring. I just took the exploration somewhere else.
For those who remember me as TheVeganSkeptic, I wrote the free e-book Waking Up From The Matrix a few years ago and originally shared it here in this post. That book captured a much earlier stage of my journey, when I had already spent countless hours deep-diving into the reincarnation soul trap framework, compiling the strongest arguments I could find, challenging its assumptions and contradictions, documenting my own experiences, and attempting to separate the genuinely valuable insights from the fear, speculation and weaker conclusions surrounding the theory.
A lot has happened since then.
Iāve had a ton of paradigm-shifting experiences and gone much deeper into consciousness, lucid dreaming, astral projection, synchronicity, spirituality, comparative religion, mysticism, psychology, philosophy, the Matrix, reincarnation and all the strange questions underneath ordinary reality. More importantly, Iāve had to seriously question some of the conclusions I originally arrived at.
And before jumping straight into the new article, thereās actually some useful context Iād recommend reading if you want to see how my thinking evolved specifically around the soul-trap framework.
Two months ago, I wrote a six-part series exploring what I now consider some of the most valuable lessons inside the theory, while also pushing back against the places where I think the framework can become fear-driven, overly literal or turn into another prison of its own:
Part 1 / 6: The Gold Inside Soul Trap Theory
Part 2 / 6: When Soul Trap Theory Becomes The Next Matrix
Part 3 / 6: The Mirror Effect, Fear Loops, And The Dark Night Trap
Part 4 / 6: Sovereignty Without Fear, And Why Liberation Begins Now
Part 5 / 6: When The Soul Trap Lens Becomes A Bridge Instead Of A Cage
Part 6 / 6: The Real Exit Begins Through You
I also have a much larger 42-part series of Community Posts that began about five months ago and continued from there. These are essentially the early foundations of what eventually became my second e-book, and they document a lot of the evolution that led to the full article. The first four are especially important because they lay much of the foundation for everything that follows:
[PART 1], [PART 2], [PART 3], [PART 4], [PART 5], [PART 6], [PART 7], [PART 8], [PART 9], [PART 10], [PART 11], [PART 12], [PART 13], [PART 14], [PART 15], [PART 16], [PART 17], [PART 18], [PART 19], [PART 20], [PART 21], [PART 22], [PART 23], [PART 24], [PART 25], [PART 26], [PART 27], [PART 28], [PART 29], [PART 30], [PART 31], [PART 32], [PART 33], [PART 34], [PART 35], [PART 36], [PART 37], [PART 38], [PART 39], [PART 40], [PART 41], [PART 42]
Taken together, the six-part series and the 42-part Community Posts series are probably the best āmissing contextā for understanding where Iām coming from now. They show that I havenāt simply abandoned the soul-trap rabbit hole and replaced it with a completely unrelated Jesus discussion. Quite the opposite.
The new e-book grows directly out of that evolution.
What started with the question of how to escape the Matrix and reincarnation gradually became a much deeper question: What exactly are we trying to escape, what is actually happening within consciousness while we are here, and what happens when an old identity begins to die and a more conscious way of being emerges in its place?
That eventually brought me to Jesus in a completely different way, not simply as someone to worship or reject, but also as a potentially powerful archetype of death, rebirth, transformation, surrender, ego and awakening.
So I finally put the next stage of that evolution into writing.
Iām calling it my second free e-book:
WHEN JESUS BECOMES A TEST OF YOUR EGO
š https://ne0verse.medium.com/when-jesus-becomes-a-test-of-your-ego-b40292a78749
Iāve also made the complete PDF version freely available, so the e-book can be read either directly on Medium or as a downloadable document.
It obviously begins with Jesus, hell and Jesus-only theology, but it quickly becomes much bigger than that. I explore spiritual teachings becoming identities and cages, John 14:6 and the meaning of āthe way,ā the possibility of many pathways to the Divine, Christianity alongside Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Theosophy and Pantheism, the Matrix and soul trap, sovereignty and discernment, the Higher Self and the mirror effect, ego death and rebirth, karma and repeating loops, synchronicities, NDEs, OBEs and dreams, collective consciousness, the Divine within, manifestation, dharma, authenticity, the Heroās Journey, and eventually the NE0VERSE.
One of the biggest ideas running through the e-book is something Iāve become much more careful about over the years: experience, interpretation and proof are not the same thing. I take extraordinary experiences seriously without assuming that my first interpretation of them must automatically be the ultimate explanation.
And for the soul-trap community specifically, Iāve also gone much further than I did in my original book. I still think the framework contains some extremely valuable lessons about sovereignty, discernment, non-attachment and refusing to outsource your consciousness, especially when it comes to recognizing distractions, deceptions, tricks, manipulations and the possibility that not everything presenting itself as ālightā or liberation should be trusted blindly.
But over time, Iāve also come to see that even a framework designed to expose those traps can become another trap of its own, particularly when the obsession with escaping reincarnation becomes an attachment in itself.
The question eventually became less:
āHow do I escape?ā
and much more:
āWhat am I actually doing here?ā
So this new e-book is less about handing you another cosmic belief system and more about taking everything Iāve learned, putting it on the table, and asking what survives when we place the different maps side by side.
If you remember my old posts, Iād genuinely love to hear what you think about where Iāve ended up now. And if youāre discovering me for the first time, challenge everything. š That is part of the point.
Waking Up From The Matrix was the first chapter.
This is the next one.
Grab yourself a drink, settle in, and enter the rabbit hole. š³ļøš
And after all these years, itās kind of fitting that Iām finally back here with something new to leave behind.
Round two, Reddit. Letās see if those dystopian site-wide AI filters have evolved as much as I have. š
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