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Image from Matrix.Bingo —

Commentary added on June 8, 2022 —

"First we'll show and tell
'Till I reach your pony tail"

— Song lyric

Another image from Matrix.Bingo —

From a more recent Sandra Bullock film —

The times are still a-changin'.

(Remark adapted from a webpage of Halloween 2020.)

Trinity —

Neo —

Matrix Resurrections —

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Plan+9"+Resurrection

Related reading:

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See Richard Corliss's 1999 review of "The Matrix," "Popular Metaphysics." 

See as well the previous Log 24 post and the following publisher's
book description —

Harvard Heart of Gold   by Dustin Aguilar

You may be a storybook character after all!!!  

This philosophic, fantastical journey is a new-fangled fairy-tale
where fun and unusual happenings are all too common, and
you—the reader—become a character just like Harvard or Kansas
and are subject to the all-knowing, all-powerful, author of the story.
This daring piece tests the bounds of reality and subtly suggests
that you should question everything you know —

While most people in this story believe they are real-life, walking
talking humans, a small, somewhat violent sect of society has
realized they are actually part of a book. They lash out and
demand that the story have a happy ending, and they'll whomever
they have to. [Sic] An enormous battle erupts catching Harvard
and Kansas trapped in the middle forced to rely on their cunning
and a little help from an extra-large talking tarantula to save the day.

From AP’s Today in History:

Happy birthday.

“It all adds up.” — Saul Bellow

The Matrix:

From the opening credits of the 2013 film “Paranoia,”
a hint that you may have taken the red pill:

(Note the reflection.)

(The sequel to yesterday's Matrix Problem Reloaded)

Wikipedia on the sci-fi weblog  io9.com—

Newitz explained the significance of the name "io9":

"Well, io9s are input-output devices that let you see into the future.
They're brain implants that were outlawed because they drove
anyone who used one insane. We totally made that (device) up
to name the blog."

— Jenna Wortham at wired.com, Jan. 2, 2008

From io9.com itself—

"Science fiction writer Ken MacLeod has another term for io9ers.
He calls them rapture fuckers.*"

— io9.com/explanations/

For the relevance of the term "revolutions" in this post's title, see
Wikipedia on Ken MacLeod.

I prefer to associate the number 9 with The Holy Field.

* MacLeod used this phrase in one of his novels, Newton's Wake.

The Presence of God in the Group: A Neglected Dimension
Ronald Sandison, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 2EY, UK

Group Analysis  March 1993, vol. 26 no. 1, 55-65

Abstract

When people gather in small groups they are often aware of an indefinable supra-personal dimension. Anyone who has taken part in a camp-fire sing-song will have experienced this. The group setting at sundown was the time and place when folk-tales and fairy stories were woven. It was the time when the elders met to discuss the events of the day, when evensong or compline was sung or said in churches. There is something "special" about this conjunction of the group and the "going down of the sun." In this article I develop the idea that to take part in a small group can be, and often is, a spiritual experience. In giving a name to this experience I consider the proposition that God, or Spirit, is ever present in the group. I view the matrix as not only nurturing and holding but also as a dynamic container, and perhaps even generator, of spiritual force.

Related material

Dr. Sandison's obituary in this evening's Telegraph  and this journal on the date of his death.

"Ignore the red dot, for it is an illusion."

♫   "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"

Log24 art (colored Unicode symbols) from the above date of death:

"Click the red symbol, and …"

— Adapted from "The Matrix."

Dr. Robert Ford — "Analysis."

* Title suggested by a textbook.

From an Instagram post today:

As for SIX — the non-musical —

For further details, see Lost in the Matrix.

Click the chessboard for some Chinese hermeneutics.

From the Field of Manifestation link above —

"The number 9, that is to say, relates traditionally
to the Great Goddess of Many Names (Devi, 
Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Artemis, Venus, etc.)
as matrix of the cosmic process, whether in the
macrocosm or in a microcosmic field of manifestation."

— Joseph Campbell,
     The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

For Stephen King:

"I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink."

— "Love Potion Number 9" 

Paul Valéry, "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci,"
La Nouvelle Revue , Paris, Vol. 95 (1895)—

"Regarded thus, the ornamental conception is to the individual arts
what mathematics is to the other sciences. …the objects chosen
and arranged with a view to a particular effect seem as if disengaged
from most of their properties and only reassume them in the effect,
in, that is to say, the mind of the detached spectator. It is thus
by means of an abstraction that the work of art can be constructed,
and is more or less easy to define according as the elements borrowed
from reality for it are more or less complex. Inversely it is by a sort of
induction, by the production of mental images, that all works of art are
appreciated, and this production must equally be more or less active,
more or less tiring, according as it is set in motion by a simple interlacing
on a vase or a broken phrase by Pascal."

— Translated by Thomas McGreevy (Valéry's Selected Writings,
     New Directions, 1950)

Related art —

• Departure dates in "Where Gravity Makes You Float,"
  by Oslo artist Josefine Lyche
• Apollo and Niobe at the Meadow
• "Enter the Matrix" game

"We have passed through the looking glass
and down the rabbit hole."

— Kurt Andersen in the Sept. 2017 Atlantic

See as well "the desert of the real" and, 
for comparison, College of the Desert in this  journal.

See also Embedding the Stone (March 23, 2012).