“You take the blue pill, the story ends - You take the red pill — You stay in Wonderland

“You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth.” — Morpheus

My good friend, John, has this great ability to watch almost any movie and glean spiritual nuggets from it. They’re always there, because movies are stories about life, and no matter how convoluted or sensationalized the script is or how deeply hidden the truth about us is, if it’s about life it’s about spirituality. In the case of The Matrix even I don’t have to be an Einsteen to see the parallels.

A blue pill.

A red pill.

And a choice.

Pretty simple, really. We make this choice every day whether we realize it or not. But, unlike Neo, we get to switch any time we want. The kicker, however, is that when you choose the red pill those new revelations now become part of who you are — you can never un-know what you now know. Taking the blue pill after you at some point had taken the red pill doesn’t wipe away the past, it only changes the future. And as hard as we try to get the blue to dumb down the consequences of red pill knowledge or experience, it’s like erasing a hard drive — there are always traces left behind.