New Matrixism Following the 'Path of the One' to enlightenment

 Some time ago I read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".  Written in 1931, Huxley told the story of a future in which there is a totalitarian world government.  In this world, people are assigned their places in life and genetically engineered for it from the time of "conception"; a person who would work in a metal smelting factory would be given high tolerances to heat; a person who would be a regional administrator would be given high intelligence.  Through a rigid educational system that includes recordings played while a person sleeps, the populace is trained to accept what they are told and not to buck the system.  Liberal rations of a state supported drug, soma, is used to avert depression and unhappy thoughts.  A person's free time is spent performing some activity that requires the use of manufactured stuff; activities include movies with smell-o-touch-o-vision and sports that require elaborate fields, setups and gear.  To simply take a quiet walk, sit at the beach to watch the waves come in, and to even read a book is seen as odd and against society.  And anyone who is deemed to be anti-society is banished to isolated islands of like minded people so they can't infect the populous.  

Almost 30 years later, Huxley wrote "Brave New World Revisited" in which he starts by saying he thought the world he envisioned was far off in the future.  However, even in the late 1950s he believed we were rapidly heading towards it.  Having recently finished reading his thoughts on where the world was heading, it seems that even more we are headed to what he greatly feared.  Below are some interesting tidbits of what Huxley had to say about what he saw as our future.
 

 In the past few weeks I've started on several postings, but have deleted them.  I have a topic I'd like to talk about, but need to do more research before I can really go deep into it.  In the meantime, one of our long-time members has sent me an e-mail:

I joined Matrixism a long, long time ago, with very little information. A lot of the information I DID have, was wrong. I thought with the arrival of your new site, I could get a few answers, and I did, but I still don't know what it all means. What exactly is the focus of matrixism, and what is the belief? When I first joined, I thought it was just a bucnh of guys supporting the brain in the vat theory, but I know it's more than that. Can you please explain what it all means? 

 I fear setting a dangerous precedent by posting a second entry in as many days, but here goes.  At the end of this posting will be an update on the status of the site redesign.

Slashdot has an interesting story today "Video Gamers Have Power Over Their Dreams".  It says that Canadian researchers have found that people who play video games before going to sleep have greater control over their dreams than those who don't play video games before going to sleep.  This study was performed by Grant MacEwan University psychologist, Jayne Gackenbach.  In her various studies she found that gamers were more likely to have lucid dreams, dreams in which they were observing themselves from outside their bodies, and to be able to control their dreams.  This control over their dreams in further studies were shown that the game was able to control their dream selfs, but no one else in the dream.  You can read more in this article.