Oh goodness, of course this is an artificial reality.

It is a fractal holographic matrix of infinite decisions branching off into infinite dimensions.

It is also a 'game' within a 'game'... within a 'game' within a 'game, etc... on and on for who knows how many levels for certain? 5? 105?

The poster who told you to read The Ra Material and said that it's got truths and half-truths in it, is right. It will answer some questions, but if you buy into it wholesale, you will find yourself locked into another version of 'prison'. So will those following the green man / wicca path, or those who practice ceremonial magick, along with everyone who still hearkens to an actual established religion. Religion is a form of government, it's a form of control... it has laws (commandments), and punishments (penance) and taxes (tithing)... and can condemn you to death (hell or ex-communication). It's just another way to keep people asleep... keep the comfortable in a system of varying degrees of comfort and the black and white game of adversary vs. opponent.

Once you get to a certain point, you can see the black and white game going on around you, and once you can 'dis-invest' yourself from it, you will see a wider game being played based on the colors of the chakras, each color represents a different team.

This world we live in, this 'level' of the game is all about CHOOSING A SIDE or CHOOSING A TEAM.

The reason so many are waking up now is because we are nearing the end of this level in the game/experiment and the quickening is happening. People must choose a side. Those with the capacity to wonder 'what else is there?' will have the ability to choose their teams.

But only one team has agreed to show you the way home, the way out of the matrix-game, and that is green. There are two sides to the green team however, one that wants to stay in the game (the green man, the stag, cernunnos, etc) and the other which recognizes that they are in a prison and want a way out (Hermes Trismegistus, Hermes, Thoth, Jesus). But even still, if a person has not been able to bring their chakra resonance up to 'green level' (meaning the heart chakra) then they will not get the chance to choose to leave. You can realize you are in a game and not be a loving person... you cannot get out without satisfying the exit requirements. Because if you can't meet those requirements, you haven't learned enough to get out. But the next level up from this one will be better for everyone, even the darksiders, because memories will be kept instead of being washed away with every life.

Don't worry about me, I'm not a new-ager. I'm a gnostic/qabbalist/hermeticist/and whatever else fits.

Assimilate - new information
Incorporate - some of that information is worth keeping
Discern - whether it resonates 'true' with you
Discard - get rid of the rest, just dump it as trash or no good

Always use discernment. All those sites on the internet could be giving you information that is just as big a lie as (you believe) the information I gave you above. Discernment is the most important thing, getting locked into *any* belief system at all is just another trap.

The myths of the world tell you the history of the world, if that's something that you want to know. All of them are true. All of them.

If you want to know how better to play THE GAME and what the rules are? Then these books will help you:
SETH SPEAKS
The RA Material and The Law Of One
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth

If you want to learn how to escape this 'Game' then you must:
SEEK TRUTH always. Find some new information? AIDD: assimilate it, incorporate it, sit on it for a few days, discern if it's truthful & resonates with you, and discard the remainder.
DO the WORK... you must seek, and you must have desire in your heart. You cannot escape if you are not willing to prove that you are loving enough, and have achieved gnosis to the point that you are ready to rejoin the makers of this game. If you try to leave (if you even were allowed to) your energetic body would be 'burned up' by the world our makers come from. No one wants that -- they don't and you don't, that's why this system was put in place. To control the chaos, to order and teach. The game was created, and the creation of life was an accident... they didn't mean to create us, but once they did, they knew they had to do right by us... teaching those of us who were ready to 'Gnow' and understand how to leave and rejoin the makers.
READ. For me, this was a big one. The books that helped me most were:
The Pistis Sophia (GRS Mead translation)
The Apocryphon of John (Davies Translation)
The Corpus Hermeticum (GRS Mead)
The Book of Enoch
The Virgin of the World
The Gospel of Mary
The Gospel of Thomas
The Bible
And various mythologies of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Shinto, Buddhist and Hindu. I have not read (everything in) all of them, but I followed the gnosis and it bloomed. If something stands out to you, and makes you go hmmmm, then find more information about it, and if something in that bit of information makes you go hmmm, then follow that... breadcrumbs. That is how the gnosis will first start blooming and eventually, you won't be surprised anymore when you find synchronicities pop up all over the place.

The steps involved in spiritual alchemy are a valid description of the process you are going through -- that we are all going through, which is why we are posting in this thread.

The chakra system may be artificial -- but it is also necessary to learn it in order to get out. Follow your arrow, follow the Arrow of Truth... everyone has one deep inside them that shows them the way home, all you have to do is find it and follow it to the 'gate'. By the time you find it, you will already have the keys to open the gate and escape.

It's my calling to plant seeds, so even if you don't believe what I have said, you will still retain some of this information, and when you are ready to understand it fully, it will be there for you :-)