DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS?

There he was in a night club at one o’clock in the morning. Standing alone in a corner . . . enduring the music that was blaring. And the people that he could see were dressed in black and in leather. Everywhere he looked there were tatoos.

What was he waiting for? How did all of this start? Earlier he had awakened with a start, having fallen asleep at his computer desk. That’s when a message flashed onto the screen, a message about something having him and the instruction, “follow the white rabbit.” That’s when a knock came on the door. And an invitation, an invitation that bring him to his night club.

Then suddenly in the midst of the crowded night club and the loud music someone appeared before him. She introduced herself. Her name was Trinity. Small talk followed and then some surprising reflection: “It’s the question that drives us. And the answer is out there. Do you want to know what it is?” And Neo asked, “What is Neuro-Semantics?”

“It’s all around us. It’s when we go to the grocery store, when we turn on the TV, when we take out the garbage. It’s the world of meaning that you live in; it’s the world of meaning that you live out from. It is in your mind and in your body, it is the world that you began mapping out from your first days and that you now accept as ‘reality.’ It is what you perform in all of your actions and your talk, in all of your emoting and even in all of your inward thinking. It is the world that you have pulled down over your eyes so that it is what you feel and see.”

While Morpheus said all of this to Neo, it was not all that he said or even the most important. What he said next was actually the key.

“No one can tell you what Neuro-Semantics is, Neo. No one can tell you what the Matrix of your mind with all of the layers of meanings upon meanings is or how it informs your body and sends commands to your nervous system. To know what it is, you have to experience it. I can point to the door, but you have to walk through it. Are you ready to do that? Do you want to experience the Matrix of your neuro-semantics for what it is—a matrix made for your mind?”

And the Neo that you are, that I am, that we all are—the new person that you have the potential to be within yourself, what will you say? Will you walk through the door? Are you ready to do that? What will your answer be?

If the sense that there is something wrong with the world that you’ve been living in, if you know deep inside that there’s something about that world that just doesn’t fit, if something about it is like a splinter in your mind driving you mad—then you may very well be ready.

“I hold before you two pills. Take the blue pill and wake up tomorrow and live out whatever mental mappings that you’ve inherited and that you’ve created. Continue to live in that world and experience whatever that matrix of frames offers you. Or, take the red pill and I’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. I will show you all of the labyrinths of your mind, all of the layers of the frames of your mind, all of the convoluted psycho-logics of your mind. Are you ready to become the One—the master of your matrix who holds the keys to the quality of your life, your states, and your experiences?”

So, do you really want to know what it is? Your neuro-semantics are all of the ways that you use your mind-and-body system to map out reality, yourself, others, the world, and everything you encounter. It is all of your neurological mappings, all of your mental and conceptual mappings, it is all of your meanings and the meanings-of-your-meanings that defines and describes “reality” as you know it.

It is the meanings that you invent in your brain and attribute to the things that happen. And this may work well for you or it may make life a living hell. Again, the choice is yours. As a species of life without instincts, we are the meaning-makers. Or to quote Colin Cox, we are magical meaning-making machines. And so our neuro-semantics is the construction inside our neurology (brain, body, nervous systems) of all of our ideas, thoughts, beliefs, decisions, intentions—in a word, all of our meanings (semantics).

And your neuro-semantics shows up in your states —your mental states, physical states, and emotional states. This is where your matrix is grounded. It is here, in your mind-body-emotional states that you reveal, actualize, and experience your matrix of frames. What is it? The matrix is the everyday expression and experience of what you’ve mapped out in your mind and body.

If you do want to know what it is, of the identity and reality of the neuro-semantics of the matrix of your mind, then you can take the red pill when you enter a Neuro-Semantic Training or contact a Meta-Coach or work with a Neuro-Semanticist. We are the community of Morpheus— those who have the privilege of awakening and then training or coaching ever-new Neos to become the One of their Matrix. And in doing that, it awakens new possibilities. It actualizes new potentials. It activates core talents. It transforms old ways of thinking, feeling, and acting, and it facilitates the release and unleashing of human potential like nothing else.

So with all of that in mind — here’s to your full unleashing, unleashing your highest and best!