The Matrix, NLP and the Flexibility of Freedom Waking Up to Choice

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The Matrix, NLP and the Flexibility of Freedom Waking Up to Choice
Rapport Issue

89

Publication Date

January 28th 2026

Authors

Srabani Basu

“Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?” When The Matrix was released in 1999, it was marketed as a mind-bending sci-fi film. But for those trained in NLP, it offered something far more provocative: a cinematic metaphor for internal reality, limiting beliefs, and the illusions we unconsciously accept as truth....

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