Already as a child, Alex Sanfiz had a sense that there was something off with this reality. He has continued ever since to question how human experiences are described.

Many thinkers talk about the concept of us living in a simulation, or a simulacrum.

In his challenging book, The Spiderweb, Alex elaborates his version.

It is a way of describing the human predicament you have never come across before.

The reason why humans are anxious is that we are trapped in something Alex calls the allowance grid.

”In a way everybody is suffering from anxiety. The order of this reality is in itself obsessive and compulsive”, says Alex.

”But those who have what is called obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, have a magnified allowance grid. Their mobility is extremely restricted. They constantly run into these walls of uncertainty.

Basically, the whole of humanity is living in a loop.

”So collectively, we are obsessive and compulsive.”

Few can break out of it. because few know that the mind works just like a computer program.

”But with sufficient awareness, it is possible to separate yourself from the allowance grid and watch it from above instead of going down with the matrix.”

”Those who have been able to break out of the allowance grid are the ones we call enlightened.”

Ancient philosophers, sages and shamans in the Vedic, Egyptian, Gnostic, Nordic and other traditions knew that we live in a container of sorts, that this physical reality is not the real thing.

Alex’ model may seem a bit harsh if you search for a philosophy that provides you with a higher meaning to life in a comprehensible way. He does not pay that much attention to creation or the afterlife. He focuses on the trap we are in here and now.

Alex does not like the popular idea that this earthly life is a school, that we suffer to learn lessons.

”I don’t think that’s it. If you teach the mind that with suffering comes reward, guess what you’re going to do tomorrow? You’re going to suffer. It’s like dopamine.”

Are so-called mentally ill people really insane, or is it that insanity has been normalized?

”Mental illness is always determined by what is the standard in society. It’s an economical term. Its purpose is to never normalize people who are thinking differently”, says Alex.

”Krishnamurti said: it is no sign of a healthy mind to adapt to a society that is profoundly sick.”

Alex mentions the insanity of the fact that healthy people can stand in line to be treated with genetic therapy.

Is it possible to ”crack the code” through psychedelics?

”They can create a shortcut to what is really going on by altering the mind, but I don't recommend it. You have to be extremely careful. If you break the lock too hard, it is damaged for good.”

If you try to reach a higher consciousness, to reach God if you will, not only God is listening, Alex points out.

”Carl Jung said: beware of unearned wisdom.”

Alex takes experiences of past lives and near death very seriously, but he is not sure they reveal exactly that.

”Consciousness is expressing itself in different ways, and separation is always illusory. So if you go back to the original consciousness, to source, you can access many other expressions of life, not just yours.”

The brain is a CPU with very limited capacity, according to Alex. Information is filtered.

”The things you put your attention on, you will have more of. It weaves. If you try to get something the computer is not designed to gather, you'll break it.”

People in power are mostly at the low levels of consciousness in this reality, in Alex’ view.

”To me, there are no people as basic as them. They cannot have any influence on those who have reached a higher level of consciousness.”

The catch-22 is that high-frequency humans don’t want to be in power. They don’t want to rule others.

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