A transcendence of bodily limitations unveils the ideological lens through which reality is experienced and henceforth allows for demystification of the “false consciousness.” In contrast to the idea that our ideological lens through which we experience reality “descends from heaven to earth,” Karl Marx argued that “we set out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of ideological reflexes and echoes of this life- process” (253). Thus, the experiences of everyday life and the interpretation of these experiences are conceptualized and given meaning in the brain. Consequently, these meanings only exist in relation to meanings of other concepts and are thus completely relative. Similarly, in semiotics words only have a signified that has its meaning solely in relation to other words and their signified meanings; there is thus no real relation between the word and the material existence of its signified. The complete structure of all those meanings that come with beliefs and emotional value judgments, together, constitute the ideology of a person and hence determine how reality is experienced. Thus, when the way we sense and perceive and henceforth the way we act–our real activities and experiences in Marx’ words–changes under the influence of a psychedelic, our ideology that was determined by everyday life is not coherent with our new reality anymore. In effect, the “language of politics, laws, morality, religion, metaphysics, etc.” all become detached from the ideology that held them together (Marx 253). In the psychedelic state, reality is experienced as if it is for the first time. It is as if the psychedelic consumer is reborn just like Neo was after swallowing the red pill. Morpheus explains him that the Matrix “is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth. You are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage … a prison for your mind.” Neo’s ideology keeps him distracted from the fact that the machines use his body to generate their energy; in the same way our Western ideology distracts us from the fact that we are “democratically” coerced into paying taxes that we have to work for in order to exist in this world. This “condition” to live, is, however, propagated, and generally experienced, as being the rational condition to our human existence. This “rationality” is what Marxists call the “false consciousness” that constitutes the ideological lens that its subjects interpret reality through. Thus, the re-experience of the “naked” reality (Žižek’s “void” of reality) as if it is for the first time–without the loss of memory–unveils the ideological lens because the naked reality has no meaning attached to it yet. Interestingly, this aligns with recent research that concluded that “in many ways, the brain in the LSD state resembles the state our brains were in when we were infants–free and unconstrained” (ABC News). Thus the psychedelic reality is experienced as the memory of ordinary reality, with a perception as free and unconstrained as an infant’s brain.