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Out of the blue today, after decades and multiple watches, it struck me that Neo was called the One.

The Matrix still remains one of the most remarkable mass blockbuster films with a solid philosophical subtext.

Spot of humour

Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze & Guattari (1972) is a modern Philosophy book and is considered part of critical theory. I had heard of it 20 years back, thought I'd read it. Its impossible for me not make non-dual and some buddhist connections in the book. I've just started reading it, on the first chapter, it's a difficult read but so far he seems to be giving detailed descriptions and examples of radical objectivity and detailed accounts of non-duality, although it is not explicitly stated as such. Anyone else have similar experiences?

Some lines from the Introduction and Chapter 1

"If his roots are in the current of life he will float on the surface like a lotus and he will blossom and give forth fruit. . . . The life that's in him will manifest itself in growth, and growth is an endless, eternal process. The process is everything."

"It is at work everywhere, functioning smoothly at times, at other times in fits and starts. It breathes, it heats, it eats. It shits and fucks."

"we make no distinction between man and nature: the human essence of nature and the natural essence of man become one within nature in the form of production or industry, just as they do within the life of man as a species...............It is probable that at a certain level nature and industry are two separate and distinct things: from one point of view, industry is the opposite of nature; from another, industry extracts its raw materials from nature; from yet another, it returns its refuse to nature; and so on." ---this particular passage I really liked because it feels like a detailed description of the non-dual view of the conventional man vs nature duality, they go a step further and include industry in it as well.

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Obviously there are other things the book discusses, but the title itself is striking "Anti-Oedipus" or "Anti-Ego"....and in my experience ego-lessness, non-self, anatta are core ideas of non-duality. Anyone else happen to read D&G or am I sounding stupid?

It also simply and clearly conveys the first thing to know about non-duality. That it cannot be told or conveyed through appearances. That's a very important clue to understanding. To someone who understands sees it clearly and someone who doesn't gets an important clue.