Playing the Matrix: A Program for Living Deliberately and Creating Consciously

by Mike Dooley

“occasional” is no longer good enough, I have some great news. “All the time,” however seemingly implausible, now lies within reach.

Alive in a paradise, cloaked in the illusion of matter, to discover that you truly have been given dominion over all things.

all are, literally, the eyes and the ears of God almighty come alive in the dream of life. Your wish, therefore, is the entire Universe’s command.

In fact, throughout your entire life, using your thoughts, your words, and your actions, you’ve always been and you will always be a natural-born creator.

when, as magicians feel about magic, people will no longer see miracles as miracles, but as easy, obvious, ordinary, natural, and probably, to be fair, cool.

you wish to make an apple pie from scratch . . . you must first invent the universe.”

But you’ve gotten in your own way, and therefore in its way, by thinking that you’re alone. No more.

emphasizing they needn’t manipulate physical circumstances, or people, to achieve their desired dreams.

“No, dude, you created that,” and I’d say, “No, I experienced it; I was there witnessing it, not creating it.”

No doubt it’s through belief, intent, expectation, and desire, but it really doesn’t matter, does it?

(or that this Matrix exists, like in the movie except with no malevolence)

don’t have to know how you do it to realize you’re doing it

whatever you want, within the loose confines of the dream.

If what’s happening seems real, then and only then can there be adventure.

you can start deliberately poking around “the backlot” of your mind,

thoughts become things.

Any desired end result held in our minds, in our thoughts, will strive to force the physical details, laws, and circumstances necessary for it to ultimately emerge, manifested, into our life.

When you understand this, you realize your astounding powers of matter manipulation and you can start the magnificent work of deliberately changing the scenery of your life.

Nothing until you, or somebody, goes there and streams it into place.

Of course, in the dream of life there’s continuity, presumably made possible by an energy matrix or grid and time-space coordinate points, ensuring that your car will remain where you parked it, and others can find it there, even though no one may have been near it to stream it in your absence.

Which means you are a natural born creator, a miracle worker who so far has not given yourself the credit you deserve!

continuity. Blinking is not enough. You have to take action. It’s still a dream. You’re still projecting it in a streaming fashion, but to give yourself permission to do that in a believable, real way, you have to physically take action.

And when you move, the Universe moves. Action is how you navigate in the continuity soup of the here and now.

each of us is untouchable by the others unless they have our consent (no matter how much it may seem otherwise).

Instead, focus on what you want, think of it as done, imagine you are there.

don’t have to know where your soul mate is coming from, how you’ll acquire financial abundance, heal from disease, or find work that’s play.

People get what they think about.

intent. Your intent. Your chosen focus. Where you place your energy in formulating thoughts, words, and actions.

To be happy.

Happiness includes and implies our desire to survive, to love, and to be loved. It includes our selfless and altruistic urges for family, friends, and complete strangers.

As a result, instead of deliberately creating, we’ve reacted to our creations without realizing that by focusing on “what is,” we perpetuate it—good, bad, or ugly.

They each had dreams and the nerve to think they could come true,

Always, our imagined end results force our life’s circumstances to put us into a place of receivership.

end in mind forces the details. Thought forces circumstance.

who woke up one morning to discover they were millionaires.

You’re active, you’re busy, you’re moving in the direction of your dreams, and suddenly you realize, it happened to me. It happens so often that it doesn’t even make the news. If it happened to

They make the best of what’s before them and the Universe is like, I can play that game, more of what you love coming right up!

Our words are our end results!

understanding we don’t have to know “how,” we just have to know “what” it is we want.

The greatest secret of all secrets is that all manifestations begin with the end in mind,

And I propose that there have been similar instances of spontaneous generation following Big Bang that might, sometimes, explain the sudden discovery of new species.

We can nevertheless see in our lives today that our thoughts, over time, held consistently, when acted upon, become the things and events we physically meet.

ultimately yielding a day that mirrors, physically, what you were first only thinking about.

For any “no” area, the way to spark change is to create a new picture in your mind of what you want there, and then “show up.”

Yet, really, I know, and so, soon, will you . . . we are natural born creators and our end results, in ways we cannot comprehend with our brains, forge new circumstances, stunning and seemingly miraculous, that will yield what we were after.

next to the right person, on the right plane, on the right day, who will give you an idea, leading you to act, drawing you, most unexpectedly, into a field of new friends and peers, and, hypothetically, as if further drawing from the ether whatever else you need, even self-confidence and creativity, to have, do, or be whatever you’ve been thinking about. Through understanding “miracles,” we realize that this system we’re learning to play always works!

The end in mind forces the details. Thought forces circumstance. You simply have to dream and show up. And perhaps, let’s add, have faith. Because you pretty much don’t get to see your progress until the entire process is complete, yet you must nevertheless hold on to the vision of your heart’s desire, and continue to take action on it, however seemingly futile, with nothing to show for it, yet.

You can’t be helped until you help yourself. And then your tiny efforts are rewarded in huge proportions. Ironically, most people don’t “roll” in life, because . . . they don’t know how to get there. Well, of course you don’t know how to get there, your brain wasn’t designed to know the hows or manage

But the truth is, it doesn’t matter what you do next, so long as you do something to the best of your ability that moves you in the direction that at least makes the most sense, given your options!

“I can’t see it, but it’s working. It always works. It never fails. Every day I get closer. Every day it gets easier. It’s working.”