Simulation Theory Quotes

“From the perspective of consciousness expansion, it’s actually a service to us to have so much weirdness thrown at us like classic slapstick pies in the face … over and over again.

The weirdness might very well be—it’s at least worth considering—part of our own design from some higher aspect of ourselves to wake us up here in the dream of this so-called reality.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“My position—one I share with countless mystics, yogis, shamans, alchemists, and other way-outside-the-boxers—is that there’s no verifiable ‘outside’ reality, no tangible ‘home base’ in the real.

Instead, there’s only a simulacrum or, more accurately perhaps, a simulation-style dreamscape mimicking an actual physical world inside an infinity (the Dark Sea of Awareness) of similarly attention-generated constructs.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“A sudden sense of déjà vu, a feeling of being secretly observed, a recurring dream that seems eerily factual. What if these aren’t the misfirings of our own warped brains, random occurrences with no deeper meaning? What if they’re actually subtle hints, whispers from the multiverse urging us to question our reality?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If our senses can so easily deceive us, how can we be confident in our understanding of anything, even our own physical existence?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If we’re indeed, like Neo in THE MATRIX, “living in a dream world,” the inevitable questions then become: Can we wake up? If so, how do we wake up? What exactly awaits us if and when we do wake up?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“To transcend this place, whatever, wherever and whenever it is, we must first travel inward through the wrinkles and folds of our own conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds.

In doing so while utilizing specific techniques, it’s possible to amass enough energy, or personal power, to fly outward beyond the confines of this reality construct with our consciousness intact.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“For anyone desiring to go beyond this world’s illusory limits, the most important thing is to avoid accepting anything anyone (including yours truly) asserts as ‘fact’ without personally testing it with an open mind … and heart.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“This world is nothing more or less than an intricate dance of energy, a sea of swirling possibilities where everything is constantly in flux.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Atoms, the building blocks of so-called matter, however much they might seem to be physically circumscribed, aren’t actually like tiny billiard balls. That’s kindergarten science.

From a shamanic or alchemical perspective, atoms are
more like sentient waves, their intelligently responsive
existence a blur of potential until they magically appear to materialize.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The observer effect puts our everyday perceptions and assumptions in a blender. It dictates—if we’re to be honest with ourselves, sober in our thinking, and not reactionary in our emotions—that the world we see is NOT the ultimate reality, but merely a projection of it.

From this perspective the manifest world is revealed as what Hindu mystics referred to as maya, illusion, the imaginal outpourings of minds—like children naturally playing in magical constructs that seem eminently real—simply doing what minds do.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“As we learn to appreciate the waltz of shadows on the walls of Plato’s cave, we begin to grasp that the solid ‘objects’ we think of as ourselves are merely illusions moving through a greater illusion.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The world can most definitely be changed, but not by using the materialist ways we’ve been taught designed to keep us beating our heads against the walls and bars of the ‘real world.’

To change this designedly dysfunctional construct, which our own co-opted creative attention is actually responsible for materializing and maintaining, we must first change ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The Matrix can feel like a pretty hopeless place. I get that. Nobody in his or her right mind (a tiny minority, admittedly) wants to be caught in an endless digital labyrinth like a techno lab rat.

My position is that, on at least a subliminal level, even
many of the most benighted sheeple (the really stubborn ones I think of as the ‘consciously clueless’) secretly suspect that they’re corralled in a system designed to control them, to keep them in check.

But I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this way. We have the power to change our circumstances individually and maybe, just maybe, collectively.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“What is life but a confusing algorithm when you are aware, or a controlled simulation when you are not?”
― F.C. Quiles, Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures

“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script playing out on the world stage, if you can manage to think for yourself just a little, it’s simply not believable.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“There comes a time, a sort of epiphany … when you realize that everything you’ve discovered through your ‘research’ has basically been fed to you because you’ve been looking for it!

We’re in a complex feedback loop ... that reveals to us an imaginary ‘reality’ that we choose to buy into … just before it becomes our lived ‘reality.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Reality is like magic. Because it is. Thanks to your magical attention. See how this works?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“The ‘reality’ misconception can take various forms. The
two most common are materialism, in which a ‘real world’ somehow manages to exist before or without anyone’s awareness of it; and religion, in which a divine being or force remains in a world miraculously outside … the world.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Nothing can ultimately be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt—except to oneself via the wisdom, or gnosis, of personal experience—and anything and everything can be easily ‘debunked’ by the cavalier exercise of the fraudulent dieu du jour, reason.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“In essence, ‘truthers’—by doggedly searching for the Holy Grail of an external absolute—perpetuate the fatal snafu of separating the Creator from the created.

But … the Creator and the created are one creature: the ouroboros forever consuming and producing itself simultaneously.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Like it or not, we’re doomed or blessed—depending on your perspective—to inhabit an eternally looping circuit that involves our thoughts, innermost desires, actions, etc., in telling back to us the story we’re telling about our lives—individually and collectively.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Regardless of whether they desire to be of service to humanity, ‘truthers’—despite any and all metaphysical leanings—by definition succumb to a critical error that makes them part of the problem, not the solution: adherence to something ostensibly real, a ‘real truth’ in a manifestly contrived mindscape.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Psychonauts may reference what is taken for reality, as we all must do if we wish to communicate with one another. But they don’t seek answers there—as they grok that the construct is a funhouse of creative mirrors that merely reflect back to us the ‘real’ that we see in them.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“An analogy for conceptualizing how ‘truthing’ functions is that research in the Matrix might be said to merely create rabbit holes that go ever deeper into … the Matrix.

In a mind-bending ‘aikido’ move, the Matrix makes it so that the closer ‘truthers’ and other mundane researchers feel they are to the ‘truth,’ the further they technically are from it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“If happiness and peace of mind depend on permanent gullibility, then I'll take eternal discomfort instead.”
― F. Gil

“We always want to know the truth. The problem is when it manifests itself right in front of us.”
― F. Gil

“I’ve often quipped that living would be much easier if people saw themselves as cartoon characters. I’ve said this not because people are silly necessarily (though many excel in this area), but because they’re not nearly as real as they tend to assume they are.”
― Sol Luckman, How to Run Down a Dream: Inner Alchemy for Manifesting Your Best Life

“In the grand dream of things here in this editable construct we call reality, a better you is just a revised animated sketch of yourself away.”
― Sol Luckman, How to Run Down a Dream: Inner Alchemy for Manifesting Your Best Life

“Consider that the ‘real world’ you take to be immutable is eminently malleable, a dream simulacrum that you can change in not just small but even large ways.”
― Sol Luckman, How to Run Down a Dream: Inner Alchemy for Manifesting Your Best Life

“Master ‘controlled folly’ to imaginatively act in and on the world without getting lost in the funhouse of the alleged real.”
― Sol Luckman, How to Run Down a Dream: Inner Alchemy for Manifesting Your Best Life