{"id":4942,"date":"2026-08-24T08:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pauljaarsma.nl\/?page_id=4942"},"modified":"2026-08-24T08:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:51:31","slug":"when-a-bird-is-caged-it-will-not-use-its-wings-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljaarsma.nl\/nl_nl\/when-a-bird-is-caged-it-will-not-use-its-wings-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen a bird is caged, it will not use its wings to fly.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">\u201cWhen a bird is caged, it will not use its wings to fly.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A brief scene from the movie The Matrix nicely complements my previous post (July 2026 blog) about perceiving our current reality. To understand reality even better\u2014and ultimately to change it\u2014the most important question in this world of contradictions remains: \u201cWhere do we focus our attention within the framework of possibilities?\u201d (Incidentally, you don\u2019t need to have seen the movie to understand my explanation.)&nbsp;A brief explanation of the scene in The Matrix to which I\u2019m referring:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"western\"><strong>&nbsp;Neo (the film\u2019s protagonist) watches as a child stares at a spoon<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> he\u2019s holding in his hand and suddenly bends it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neo tries to understand how that works.&nbsp;The child\u2019s explanation was very brief:&nbsp;\u201cDon\u2019t try to bend the spoon. It\u2019s impossible.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The child continued: \u201cThere is no spoon.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cIt is you who are bending!\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cMost people who have seen this movie interpret this scene that \u2018perceived reality isn&#8217;t real.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nThat may be partly true, but it goes much deeper than that assumption.<br \/>\nThe child\u2019s lesson isn\u2019t about bending a metal spoon.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s about gaining insight into your own perception. How rigid am I in my perception!<br \/>\nBecause the moment Neo tries to force the spoon to change through his thoughts, he still accepts the spoon as something fixed\u2014or, in other words, as solid matter\u2014something separate from him self.<br \/>\nThe spoon will not bend as long as we perceive from a world of separation.<br \/>\nIt then remains a struggle against reality that has been unconsciously created by assumed limitations.<br \/>\nAnd this is exactly what we do continuously in life. We try to change the world within a limited framework of perception.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We try to change a relationship.<\/li>\n<li>We want to change circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>We want to change other people.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;We want to change the future.<\/li>\n<li>We want to bend everything to our will until it yields what we want.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A transformation of reality does not begin with wanting a change.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993366;\">It arises when you become completely still within and recognize consciousness in all its fullness, allowing it to change the way you view reality.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suppose, for example, that you are having a lucid dream; within this real-life lucid dream, you can do, decide, and experience anything you wish. This is possible because, at that moment, your consciousness is not tied to a material world of imposed and accepted limitations.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility of experiences never becomes a fixed reality until your beliefs have limited it with a framework of assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>Your brain constantly filters enormous amounts of information through memories, expectations, emotions, beliefs, identity, and attention.<br \/>\nSo you do not experience the world the way you do simply by chance.<\/p>\n<p><em>You experience a model of the world that has been constructed by your consciousness within the framework of your assumptions and patterns of expectation (vision of the future).<\/em><br \/>\nA good example of how assumptions shape our experience is, let\u2019s say, a rainstorm. The farmer who has been waiting so long for rain, experiences the rainstorm as a blessing. The passerby who forgot his raincoat or umbrella runs, cursing, to the nearest shelter to take cover. The rainstorm is the same, but the personal experiences of the rainstorm are completely different. One person feels \u201csupported,\u201d while the other feels \u201ccursed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, the ability to bend that particular spoon becomes much more interesting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spoon represents everything you unconsciously accept as an established fact.<br \/>\nHere are a few examples of assumptions that influence your personal life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&nbsp;\u201cThis isn\u2019t something I\u2019m capable of.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThere are too many problems to overcome.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cPeople like me can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cI\u2019m not that lucky.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cI always have bad luck.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cThe past has shown so often that something like that isn\u2019t in my future.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cThe reality I know is the only reality there is\u201d \u2026 etc.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are, in fact, a few rigid mindsets you might encounter. Be honest and see if you recognize them!So, for most of your life, you may find yourself trying to bend these limitations.<br \/>\nBut the awakening begins when you examine who, in the first place, assumed that these are fixed realities.<br \/>\nYour relationship to reality determines which possibilities you can perceive, pursue, and also embody.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993366;\">As consciousness expands and subsequently clears away old baggage, and the weight of limitations gradually dissolves, your attitude toward reality will also begin to shift.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When your attitude or behavior changes, the choices you make may automatically change.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When your choices change, other possibilities open up\u2014ones that suddenly become available.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And then the reality that once seemed unshakable begins to shift as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Matrix\u201d is also a metaphor for making the invisible conditioning within ourselves visible.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t escape \u201cthe Matrix\u201d by simply fighting against everything. By doing so, you perpetuate it!<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993366;\">You escape \u201cthe Matrix\u201d by becoming aware of the ingrained conditioning that you have subsequently accepted as truth.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Because, what you can clearly perceive, you no longer need to obey unconsciously.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And perhaps that is the deeper meaning behind the child\u2019s final lesson (the child represents inner innocence):<br \/>\n\u201cIt is not the spoon that bends. \u2018You are the bending itself.\u2019 By being transparent and flexible on the inside, you allow external reality to bend along with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>If all matter is energy (a proposition of Einstein\u2019s) and our bodies are therefore also energy, what then takes place between our bodies and minds in relation to that metal spoon? Put very simply: \u201can exchange of information between different energy fields.\u201d In this way, matter takes on a different perspective. Consciousness is the unified field where that exchange of information and transformation of the energy fields can take place.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The spoon experiment was never really about telekinesis.<br \/>\nIt was about freeing ourselves from and clearing away fixed assumptions and limitations.<br \/>\nOnce you realize that\u2026 you begin to notice inner \u201cspoons\u201d everywhere that you can ultimately transform and redirect into a different inner reality\u2014and perhaps later into a different material reality.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Are we, as a human collective, ready for a \u201ctotal shift\u201d toward a different world?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world we live in is a collective phenomenon in which the frequency of the energy field determines how the world is experienced. If I still see a great deal of division and mutual resistance among people, then the honest answer is: no, not yet!<\/p>\n<p>Yet more and more people will begin to sense that things must and can be different. So we are indeed shifting toward that new world! We regularly feel a light but distinct touch. It\u2019s as if two worlds with different vibrations (frequencies) are already overlapping just a little bit. Dimensions are separated from one another only by a difference in frequency. The new world is already here, coexisting with the existing world. (Try to let go of the thinking that creates separation for a moment.) Sometimes you can feel it because your own energy field is raising in frequency, but you can also feel it when the frequency drops again because, out of habit, you fall back into the trap of \u201cmainstream\u201d pull.<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em> Ultimately, we will increasingly inspire one another to recognize in time the old assumptions\u2014which are partly perpetuated by the mainstream cage\u2014and then to choose once again a harmonious inner world composed from the heart<\/em><\/span>, thereby causing the \u201cmainstream\u201d to gain less and less momentum in bending reality to its will. 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