Culture is a mass hallucination and when you step outside the mass

hallucination you see it for what it's worth. A quote by Terence McKenna.

It's time to a quote by Terence McKenna.

It's time to introduce you to a powerful concept that I've been developing that I call the social matrix.

This is going to be a very profound concept of epistemology.

It's going to be a profound foundational episode in the epistemology work that we're doing here with actualized.org.

And I should warn you that this episode may give

you an existential crisis. So if you're mentally unstable, if you have difficulty

navigating and managing basic life and reality.

You might want to skip this episode because I'm not kidding.

Once you fathom what I'm going to say here,

this is going to corrode your entire sense of reality and

how you navigate life.

This is going to pull back the curtain.

In a sense this is the ultimate conspiracy theory. It is a

conspiracy theory that trumps all other conspiracy theories so you've been warned.

So what is the social matrix. The social matrix is the entire collection that we might call society of elements.

I'll be explaining what these elements are in a minute of various elements and institutions which are used by your mind in order to as reference points

as anchors in order to construct your sense of reality and how you should live your life.

What most people don't appreciate is just how deeply social human beings are.

The human mind, our psyche.

We like to think that our mind is just interacting with reality, with an objective reality out there,

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