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Exit the Cave: Ending the Reincarnation Trap, Book 1
Most people will say something feels terribly wrong...with reality, the world, life. Why is that? Because something is wrong. This whole experience called "life on Earth" is a falsified lie.
Standard spirituality, religion and the New Age tell us that we live in a wonderful world, made by a creator who loves us, and who is always waiting for our prayers. Yet some groups, such as the Gnostics and Cathars, believed that we live in a virtual reality simulation, fashioned by an evil creator, with the purpose of consuming our energy and keeping our soul trapped. Plato created the allegory of the Cave to present that we live in a non- real reality, and in fact, are prisoners in it.
Exit the Cave takes a candid exploration into the reincarnation trap, by unpacking a plethora of diverse information from ancient texts and near death experiences, to movies such as Dark City and Westworld in an attempt to deconstruct and understand Plato's Cave allegory. Most significant of it all, is how important it is to be prepared at the moment of one's death - our only true "guaranteed experience." What awaits us on the other side of turning our back on constant incarnations in a pit of suffering? Perhaps it is what our soul has been dreaming of for eons... going Home.
Standard spirituality, religion and the New Age tell us that we live in a wonderful world, made by a creator who loves us, and who is always waiting for our prayers. Yet some groups, such as the Gnostics and Cathars, believed that we live in a virtual reality simulation, fashioned by an evil creator, with the purpose of consuming our energy and keeping our soul trapped. Plato created the allegory of the Cave to present that we live in a non- real reality, and in fact, are prisoners in it.
Exit the Cave takes a candid exploration into the reincarnation trap, by unpacking a plethora of diverse information from ancient texts and near death experiences, to movies such as Dark City and Westworld in an attempt to deconstruct and understand Plato's Cave allegory. Most significant of it all, is how important it is to be prepared at the moment of one's death - our only true "guaranteed experience." What awaits us on the other side of turning our back on constant incarnations in a pit of suffering? Perhaps it is what our soul has been dreaming of for eons... going Home.
- GenresNonfictionSpirituality
244 pages, Paperback
Published October 28, 2022
About the author
Howdie Mickoski
11 books39 followersHowdie Mickoski is the author of Falling For Truth, and The Power of Then-Revealing Egypt's Lost Wisdom.
He began his life as a stand-up comedian and hockey coach, but began to study the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mexico in 1997. This led to the study of Zen, Native Indian Medicine, Alchemy, Gnosticism and comparative religions and spirituality. This study led to the Power of Then.
He had a death experience in 2005 that led him to change his research and writing focus to present his new insight, that of dealing with reality and the self in a complete different way and became Falling For Truth.
Currently he has been researching historical topics such as the Cathars and Knights Templar, to World Expositions of the 1800's looking for clues to help explain the nature of standard reality, and how and why this may have shifted over time.
He began his life as a stand-up comedian and hockey coach, but began to study the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mexico in 1997. This led to the study of Zen, Native Indian Medicine, Alchemy, Gnosticism and comparative religions and spirituality. This study led to the Power of Then.
He had a death experience in 2005 that led him to change his research and writing focus to present his new insight, that of dealing with reality and the self in a complete different way and became Falling For Truth.
Currently he has been researching historical topics such as the Cathars and Knights Templar, to World Expositions of the 1800's looking for clues to help explain the nature of standard reality, and how and why this may have shifted over time.
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August 23, 2023To read only if one of your theories about this world is that this life is like the movie matrix and you are exploring theories about the after death. Which I am. Some things seem plausible to me, others not as much - but why not? Loved the part about NDEs which is a subject I've been interested in for many years. Also interested by the mentions of several religious groups which were wiped out by Christian powers - something to research on for sure. Oh and I also got some great movie & tv-shows recommendations from this book.
July 24, 2023
Amazing book! Cannot wait for pt.2 that might be coming out late fall :) howdie is my favorite author, and if you've read his books but haven't seen his YouTube channel I couldn't recommend it more. Great supplementary information with his books
June 14, 2023
One of the best books to read if you are exploring the after-death matrix. Full of references and links to other researcher's work.
August 30, 2024
Interesting food for thought
Badly needed an editor
Badly needed an editor
June 26, 2026
Well written book with deep knowledge of ancient existential myths and religious beliefs on dying.
1 - Author drops lots of great references (Nag Hammadi / Apocryphon of James, Greek, Asian, Cathar, etc.) you can follow-up on later. Right off the start the author sites Robert Monroe in 1970 as the creator of the word "loosh." I thought it was David Icke.
2 - Spends a lot of time explaing the Cathars, but doesn't go that hard explaining the Gnostics, and completely ignores the Essenians. He does discuss the Gnostic's Demiurge, Rex Mundi, and Plermora theories which is enlightening. He also explains their priests were a male and female who would wander their territories performing spirtual cleansings or Consolamentums.
3 - Author bashes and goes off on tangents when debating Plato's cave theory.He claims we never escape the "Cave" and that we just set up material and surragate activities to "Enjoy the Cave."
4 - Author writes as a Gnostic believing the world we live in is a bad copy of our good world and/or "Home." This Prison planet was created by a bad God in order for humans to live in a torturous realm in order for archons and the Demiurge to harvest all our stress / "loosh" as a tradable commodity -simular to food or electricity.
5 - Author claims the parasitic food-chain proves the animal kingdom was created by an evil God, or Creator. Food chain Ex: The bear eats the wolf, the wolf eats the dog, the dog eats the cat, the cat eats the bird, the bird eats the worm, the worm eats dirt.
6 - Author hypothisizes that Nature is our incarcerator.
7 - Great explanation and descriptions of Near Death Experiences (NDE), and life reviews. "The human realm is a deception of hope."
8 - Good how-to explanations of "Death Action Plan," " Recapitulation" or life reviews practiced while alive.
9 - Great deep-dives on Hollywood movies that cover this existential subject: "Dark City" "Westworld" "Matrix" "Inception" "They Live" "Donnie Darko" "Lost" "Eyes Wide Shut"
"2001."
10 - Author goes off on the impossibility of "Love" referencing Eve Longren's good book "Alien Love Bite." Author should read "Four Tyes of Love" by CS Lewis if he really wants to understand "Love." Author descibes "New Age" love advocates correctly as lonely fools in love with the material world.
11 - Author suggest Qi Gong or Hatha Yoga to get to the darkest part of your soul.
12 - Author superbly quotes Nietzsche from "The Gay Science": "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your lonliest lonlinessand say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more'...Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experenced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
1 - Author drops lots of great references (Nag Hammadi / Apocryphon of James, Greek, Asian, Cathar, etc.) you can follow-up on later. Right off the start the author sites Robert Monroe in 1970 as the creator of the word "loosh." I thought it was David Icke.
2 - Spends a lot of time explaing the Cathars, but doesn't go that hard explaining the Gnostics, and completely ignores the Essenians. He does discuss the Gnostic's Demiurge, Rex Mundi, and Plermora theories which is enlightening. He also explains their priests were a male and female who would wander their territories performing spirtual cleansings or Consolamentums.
3 - Author bashes and goes off on tangents when debating Plato's cave theory.He claims we never escape the "Cave" and that we just set up material and surragate activities to "Enjoy the Cave."
4 - Author writes as a Gnostic believing the world we live in is a bad copy of our good world and/or "Home." This Prison planet was created by a bad God in order for humans to live in a torturous realm in order for archons and the Demiurge to harvest all our stress / "loosh" as a tradable commodity -simular to food or electricity.
5 - Author claims the parasitic food-chain proves the animal kingdom was created by an evil God, or Creator. Food chain Ex: The bear eats the wolf, the wolf eats the dog, the dog eats the cat, the cat eats the bird, the bird eats the worm, the worm eats dirt.
6 - Author hypothisizes that Nature is our incarcerator.
7 - Great explanation and descriptions of Near Death Experiences (NDE), and life reviews. "The human realm is a deception of hope."
8 - Good how-to explanations of "Death Action Plan," " Recapitulation" or life reviews practiced while alive.
9 - Great deep-dives on Hollywood movies that cover this existential subject: "Dark City" "Westworld" "Matrix" "Inception" "They Live" "Donnie Darko" "Lost" "Eyes Wide Shut"
"2001."
10 - Author goes off on the impossibility of "Love" referencing Eve Longren's good book "Alien Love Bite." Author should read "Four Tyes of Love" by CS Lewis if he really wants to understand "Love." Author descibes "New Age" love advocates correctly as lonely fools in love with the material world.
11 - Author suggest Qi Gong or Hatha Yoga to get to the darkest part of your soul.
12 - Author superbly quotes Nietzsche from "The Gay Science": "What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your lonliest lonlinessand say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more'...Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experenced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
December 7, 2025
Absolute crap. Zero empirical or rational evidence provided to support what is, by all accounts, a wild theory. As a very open-minded scientist, I'm willing to consider any new theory with sufficient evidence (and my threshold for that is significantly lower than for others in academia). He provided little outside speculation, insane logical leaps and drawing correlated/causal conclusions from only barely related legitimate evidence.
The author is clearly a depressed nihilist with little if any formal training that would have taught him the importance of rigor in research.
Also, a professional editor was desperately needed and regrettably not utilized.
I regret reading this book... Not because it was terrifying but because it was a colossal waste of my time aside from the laughs I got while reading it.
The author is clearly a depressed nihilist with little if any formal training that would have taught him the importance of rigor in research.
Also, a professional editor was desperately needed and regrettably not utilized.
I regret reading this book... Not because it was terrifying but because it was a colossal waste of my time aside from the laughs I got while reading it.
December 25, 2024
What an incredible book! I can't wait for the second book (Book 2).
I completely agree with the idea that when we pray, we become prey. It’s not hard to conclude that 'this world is a madhouse.' I also share the sentiment that Earth can’t possibly be a school—if it were, who are the teachers? These so-called 'leaders'? I don’t think so!
Lastly, I believe that exiting the cave may be easier than we think. If we are more powerful than the Archons (Yaldabaoth and his team), then simply saying 'NO' carries far more weight than we realize.
I completely agree with the idea that when we pray, we become prey. It’s not hard to conclude that 'this world is a madhouse.' I also share the sentiment that Earth can’t possibly be a school—if it were, who are the teachers? These so-called 'leaders'? I don’t think so!
Lastly, I believe that exiting the cave may be easier than we think. If we are more powerful than the Archons (Yaldabaoth and his team), then simply saying 'NO' carries far more weight than we realize.
January 26, 2023
Can't wait for book 2!
February 28, 2024
We have evidence for a ''reincarnation trap''?
April 15, 2025
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