So the way things stand is this: God is transubstantiating the world. Über-Mind is crashing The Matrix. This right now is The Fierce Moment of Our Inconceivable Metamorphosis. All of which are just three different ways of looking at the very same thing.
We, meanwhile, are each an illusory ‘me,’ a fictitious Thomas Anderson trapped in a fictitious job in a fictitious cube somewhere in the fake, code-generated world of The Matrix
And we want to crash The Matrix somethin’ fierce.
Help, Dick tells us, has come. Some benign power, like a champion ready to do battle, has invaded this world and is transubstantiating every last quark. Some benign power is “at work now” crashing The Matrix.
Hallelujah.
No, wait!—whoa, whoa, whoa!
If Über-Mind is crashing The Matrix, and the ‘me’—the ‘Jeff’—like Thomas Anderson is just a code-generated fiction of The Matrix, then crashing The Matrix crashes me!
Even Neo, you may remember, found that a tough pill to swallow. “I don’t believe it,” is his initial response when Morpheus shows him real reality. Flat denial. Then he totally freaks. “I want out!” he demands. “Lemme out!” he shouts. Out of reality, back into his cozy little, dreamy little womb in The Matrix.
God is both good and terrible, as Dick says.
But: Precisely because Über-Mind is inherently playful, precisely because we find ourselves in a world that’s just total wild-ass genius, there’s always some dazzling twist waiting to take us by surprise.
God is indeed both good and terrible—but ‘terrible,’ as I said, in the sense Jacob used the word when he awoke trembling from his dream of wrestling with the angel. God’s terrible aspect, Jacob is dazzled to discover, is a Stargate…
Coming 3 December 2021
Hack the Eucharist | Crash the Matrix 
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