Escaping the Illusion: Who Are We Really and Why Don’t We Remember?

June 12th, 2025

By Stefan Becker

Guest writer for Wake Up World

To awaken we must build a bridge from our current understanding of who we are to an understanding that allows us to remember and review all previous stages of our existence. The problem is that such a feat leads us to an impasse, to a chasm. There is a chasm between what we as humanity seem to ‘know’ about our origins and the modalities of the universe we exist in, and what is the true, first-hand knowledge and memory of where we were before showing up in this current lifetime.

Why Is There a Chasm?

Without such a chasm, the world we wake up to every morning would not be possible. It is fundamental for our world to continue to exist that we have no means to perceive the greater reality behind and beyond it.

These days, everything beyond the physical surface of ‘reality’ is referred to as the realm of speculation. Sure, many of us have a deep longing to learn about what lies beyond what we can perceive with our five physical senses. And quite a few esoteric, spiritual, or metaphysically gifted ‘teachers’ or guides have supposedly ventured into the realm beyond the veil (or the chasm) that separates us from our origins. And they often freely – or commercially – share what they have found.

As much as we have to believe what conventional media channels constantly present to us, we also have to believe or disbelieve what said ‘teachers’ present to us. We have no way of validating anything by ourselves. And therein lies our biggest problem. The most we can achieve is to spend money to gain access to the musings of metaphysically inclined people who often share contradictory information about their findings and discoveries. As we cannot validate any of this, we only have the option of choosing whom we are going to follow with their narratives and whom we ignore, because it would dishearten us if someone else were to challenge the ‘findings’ and conclusions of the master we have decided to follow.

Moving Beyond Acceptance

So far, nobody, no matter how sophisticated or wise their understanding is, has achieved any change in the course this world has been travelling on for the past centuries. They come and they go, and we come and we go. Neither do we have any personal memory of where we came from, nor do we have any idea of how we got to where we are and where we are going. The best we can accomplish is to obtain a deep peace of mind, surrendering to the fact that we must live with the world as it is, and to accept the challenges we meet. In short, it seems that we need to make the best out of what we have.

However, I am not surrendering at this point. I am making this the starting point of my path to my awakening, and I hope you do so, too.

To embark from this point will require us to leave behind all preconceived ideas we have encountered so far. We have to put into question most everything we have been taught or learned along the course of our lives. We have to open up our minds to an understanding with which we will leave our consensual reality and which will lead us into a realm that society would probably classify as insanity. I would say, however, that our blind acceptance of the reality of the world we currently find ourselves in, as well as our decision to perceive this world as something benign and natural, is pure insanity. Just because everyone else buys into this insanity doesn’t make it any better; it makes it worse.

Two Models For What Happens (or Doesn’t Happen) After Death

Many people still believe that they will only have this one lifetime and that they will then wait for redemption on Judgment Day. They assume that they accidentally came into existence by having been brought into this world because of their parents’ wish to have a family, and that by their act of conceiving children, they have made their offspring co-responsible for something that supposedly Adam and Eve committed eons ago. They assume that all children come out of nothing but continue to exist after death as a consciousness waiting for redemption. Hmm.

Then there are those who assume that we are stuck on a Karma Wheel and that we live one lifetime after another, working on our own personal redemption with each new incarnation. Within this concept, we unfortunately enter each lifetime with a completely wiped memory of anything that happened during our previous existences, so that we have no way of remembering which mistakes we made in prior incarnations. At best, we can only guess what we might have ‘committed’ in order to remedy it in this lifetime. If we follow this narrative, we may be informed by self-acclaimed esoteric guides that humanity as a whole is a very young and childish civilization that still has a long way ahead of it to mature, and that most humans still must learn many more lessons, meaning that uncountable future incarnations are lying ahead.

What Is The Reality of Death?

So, in one model, your consciousness (after death) enters an unknown place for an undetermined period of time to wait for redemption. How long can this waiting time be endured without losing some form of sanity? The other model seems to grant you free will, but disconnects you from any recollection of what it is exactly that you need to accomplish to finally get off this dreary Karma Wheel. Do you realize what these models have in common? You have to take them at face value and are unable to verify anything about them for yourself. And you have no other option than to make the best out of the life you are living and to surrender to the boundaries set by the limited perception of your five senses.

It is my understanding that neither of those two models describes what reality is like, nor would it be the idea that we haven’t had any form of beingness before our birth and would cease to exist upon our physical death. What I presume happens though is that after the end of our current physical life, we are going to find ourselves in a realm that has been created and is being controlled by non-human beings, and that these controller beings will be the ones leading us through a very disheartening life review which irrevocably will lead to the conclusion that unfortunately a further incarnation will be inevitable.

Both concepts can exist only in the backs of our minds, as we have no way to actually do something about them, except to contemplate them. We are being called to action daily by our ‘real life,’ which forces us to find ways to provide ourselves with food, clothing, shelter, transportation, emotional balance, and so on. Everything else is a philosophical question to which we will only find the answers upon our death, or so we think. As we all can witness every day, the rules of this world are changing constantly, and so is the way we are being forced to live our lives. For example, on top of everything else, nowadays we must constantly maintain our own digital communications infrastructure, because without it, many requirements and tasks could no longer be accomplished or fulfilled. Nobody has ever asked us or our ancestors whether or not they would want to have these changes implemented. We are just being told that we are witnessing a developing and improving civilization. But how can we know whether this development serves us or not, if we have no inkling of who we are?

The Perfect Trap

This way of living has been conceived as a perfect trap. As long as you still must provide all essentials of life for yourself every day, and as long as this endeavor is taking up most of your time, you will not be able to dedicate your full attention to the question ‘Who am I? What are my origins? How did I get here? Who runs this world from behind the scenes? What is the purpose and goal of those who run our world?

Without finding answers to these questions, it doesn’t make much sense to take any more steps in any direction. It doesn’t make sense to bring more children into this world, and it doesn’t make sense to voluntarily give any decision-making creative power that we hold to anybody claiming that they are representing us, e.g., in an election. Look at the show that has been staged accompanying the last federal election in the US. The main goal was to convince the people that they are calling the shots and that the governmental system is guaranteeing that the populace can choose someone who truly looks after their well-being and creates the best possible circumstances for everyone. The only intention of this show was to once again have as many people as possible voluntarily surrender their individual decision-making power to the system.

While we can only speculate about who exactly runs our world from behind the scenes and where they want to go with this, it does not make any sense to continue with our lives while having no clues to whose tune we are dancing.

What Must We Accomplish?

We must awaken our perceptual capacities, enabling us to gain a first-hand understanding of what happened immediately before we entered into our current incarnation. We must increase our sensory awareness to perceive who is responsible for the way our world is being governed. Thereby, we will learn how and by whom the C-Narrative got unleashed upon humanity, and how it was accomplished that all world governments and all responsible institutions had been staffed with obedient representatives prior to 2020. We must become able to personally access the Akashic Records and use this ability to learn about our origins and the real historical developments on Earth.

We must refute anyone speculating about these issues without having real proof. We need to go to the interface through which our world is really being directed and governed in daily life. If someone uses channeling techniques, then they need to provide answers to questions like: Who ordered the demolition of the WTC, who ordered the assassination of John F. Kennedy, who ordered the C-narrative, what happened with the moon missions, and for what purpose might these have been staged? What is the true goal of digitalization and transhumanism? Why are so many efforts being undertaken to harm our supernatural capacities through chemicals and toxins in all walks of life, EMF signals, degraded food, noise pollution, and so on and so on? It is not enough to learn about techniques that allow us to improve our individual life circumstances. Instead, we must become supernatural to find answers to the above questions and to find ways to spread these answers to every single one of our fellow human beings. As well, we need to empower ourselves to end the many interferences with our well-being.

I realize that our world has been set up carefully and well-planned in ways that are meant to prevent exactly what I am proposing. And to make sure that this doesn’t happen, safety systems have been implemented to disqualify anyone who is proposing such a feat. The main issue here is that we will have to enter a transitional zone nobody has previously ventured into. Either we are completely immersed in the world we have been taught about in school, or we talk about a realm that is beyond our current capacity to perceive and requires us to believe in it. Both states of perception have in common the fact that we cannot disconnect from or influence the fundamental circumstances of our current physical life. Both states require us to surrender to what seems to be our current reality and to wait for something to happen, or for our death.

The middle ground nobody has dared to enter so far is a process that will allow us to actively transform our perception into a supernatural state. This will enable us to unravel the façade behind which we have been locked away. To me, this would be the most important thing to do before continuing to let our world spin out of control, which it has been doing for quite some time.

A Meaningful Life

How can life be meaningful when someone imposed an understanding of who we are upon us that we must take at face value? Such a life cannot be meaningful.

When I look at how complex and delicate the human body is, how magical and mystical the process of the creation of this body is, from simple elements into such a multifaceted entity that provides an entrance into our physical realm of existence for a spirit-soul, I can’t fathom how all this effort might only have been undertaken so that such divine beings then for the most part will spend their precious life sitting in front of screens and engulfed in a digital world, through their most creative and vital time in life. Soon AI systems will be able to replace your friends as those systems will be able to take over the digital conversations you nowadays have with your acquaintances.

I cannot fathom either that the main purpose of our existence seems to be to go to work, and that we are supposed to perceive it as progress, how the small self-sufficient communities from 200 years ago have been replaced by a society that has reduced everyone to a small wheel in a gigantic system. A system that leaves our whole existence dependent on those who run these systems and on their ideas of how they wish to develop and transform these systems. Back in the day, the small community we were living in was able to take care of any need anyone might have. Today, someone could just freeze your account or disable your cell phone and internet connection, and you could easily find yourself out on the street and starving to death without any other options except for begging or stealing.

Contemplating such ideas and thoughts like the ones mentioned above may not seem to be very uplifting, to put it mildly. But since we as humanity seem to be ever more surrendering without resistance to the dictates of powers (powers that we don’t even get to see), I think we must face this reality as it is so that we can find the resolve to embark on our path of awakening, and to dedicate ourselves to this process wholeheartedly. We should realize that it is up to us to bring this about. Now. In this lifetime.

About the Author

Stefan Becker is an author, researcher, and traveler with a deep interest in history, spirituality, and human consciousness. His work explores the ideas and forces that have shaped our understanding of reality, encouraging readers to think critically and seek deeper knowledge. In his book, “AWAKENING: Break Through the Deception Hidden in Reality and Find Your Way Back Home,” he examines the narratives that define our world and offers a fresh perspective on personal and collective awakening. He currently resides in Paraguay and welcomes readers to connect at stefanbeckerawakening.com and instagram.com/sbecanada and linkedin.com/in/stefan