Did the Anunnaki program the matrix? In this live stream, Billy Carson argues that reality is a fractal holographic matrix of light built from a higher dimension, and that the Anunnaki of the Sumerian texts did not create it but may have learned to manipulate it, possibly by keeping souls in a loop of reincarnation. The talk runs from the biblical word "matrix" through Nick Bostrom's simulation argument, the Mandelbrot set, James Gates' adinkra codes and the game No Man's Sky.
Simulation theory has moved from science fiction into philosophy departments, and the Anunnaki are a fixture of alternative history. Carson's talk joins the two, showing how he connects ancient narrative, mathematics and spirituality, and where those connections are analogies rather than demonstrations.
What the video covers
The matrix as a womb (from about 5:17)
Carson opens with the word itself. He says "matrix" appears in the biblical text about six times, and that every use points the same way: "the matrix is a womb, which means you have to be born." In his reading, the womb stands for an illusion a person eventually wakes from, and he argues the 1999 film borrowed the metaphor: Neo wakes inside an artificial womb, pulls the cord from the back of his neck and is born again into the real world.
Scientists and the simulation hypothesis (from about 7:23)
He names Nick Bostrom, Michio Kaku, James Gates Jr. and Teresa Bullard as thinkers who have entertained the idea that people may live in a holographic matrix or simulation. He stresses this does not make families or love unreal; his interest is the method used to build the creation that, he says, ancient texts all describe. He reads John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word", as a statement about vibration, linking it to the vibrating strings of string theory.
Fractals, the Mandelbrot set and Pixar (from about 10:24)
That method, in Carson's account, is a fractal holographic matrix of light. He defines a fractal as a pattern repeating at smaller and smaller scales and credits the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot with showing that one short formula, the Mandelbrot set, can model anything from a blade of grass to a galaxy. He then describes Pixar adopting fractal code so scenes and characters generate themselves.
Rendered only when observed (from about 13:20)
Carson pairs the Mandelbrot set with wave-particle duality: everything exists as waves of potential until a conscious observer collapses it into apparent solidity. His example is a house that reappears when its owner turns the corner, as a video game draws only the map the player needs. "We can only recreate what we're already a part of," he says, treating video games, and even AI, as fractal copies of the universe.
Angels, avatars and empty space (from about 15:49)
"The human body is the original AI," he says: a biological machine housing a soul for a time, animated by a stream of consciousness from a higher dimension. He plays on "angels" as "angles", the angle at which that consciousness enters the avatar. He adds that atoms are mostly empty space, so that all eight billion people, compressed, would fit in a sugar cube, and argues that because atoms and electrons are alive, so is anything built from them, a phone or a shirt included.
The Anunnaki and the soul trap (from about 23:32)
Carson then turns to the ancient record. Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Kemetic texts, he notes, describe beings who descended from the heavens, including the Egyptian Zep Tepi, when such beings turned mud into a kingdom. Some theories, he says, cast the Anunnaki as programmers and engineers who learned to keep souls reincarnating so that people never ascend. He frames this as a hypothesis, saying "I'm not saying that's exactly what's happened", and credits the idea to a book by his late friend Gerald Clark. He ties it to the Emerald Tablets, which in his reading describe how to break the cycle, including spoken keys and frequencies, or cymatics, for passing voice-activated gateways.
The Akashic field and simultaneous invention (from about 28:10)
Carson describes the Akashic records as a quantum-entangled data field holding every thought ever thought, the same thing he says the Bible and the Emerald Tablets call the book of life. He argues that thoughts leave the skull as waves, pointing to brain-imaging research that reconstructs images from brain activity and to decades-old television broadcasts still traveling through space. If thoughts persist, others can tune into them, which in his view explains why inventors in different places arrive at the same invention at once.
Programmed by whom (from about 33:13)
This is the turning point. Carson says he does not believe the Anunnaki fully created this realm, because it is too sophisticated: "It had to be done from a much higher dimension." What he does believe is that they found a way to manipulate it to their benefit. He contrasts people running the same daily loop like a hamster on a wheel with those who have unplugged.
Adinkra codes and No Man's Sky (from about 39:11)
His evidence that the matrix runs on code is physicist James Gates Jr.'s work on adinkras, which he describes as error-correcting codes inside the equations of supersymmetry, the same kind of code he says web browsers use. His analogy for a created universe is No Man's Sky, a game whose planets are generated procedurally. If people can make universes, he argues, beings inside them could make their own, and humanity may sit many layers from base reality.
Escaping the loop (from about 42:28)
He closes by noting that, in his reading, Anunnaki artifacts show a knowledge of fractals and their texts describe stargates. His open question is whether they learned to build the reincarnation loop itself. His answer for the individual: recognize being greater than the system, and reprogram it from within.
Key takeaways
- Carson reads "matrix" in the biblical text as "womb", a metaphor for waking from illusion that he believes the 1999 film borrowed.
- He argues that reality is a fractal holographic matrix of light, with the Mandelbrot set as a core part of its code.
- He uses video games and No Man's Sky as analogies for a universe that is drawn when it is observed.
- He treats the Akashic records as a real data field and simultaneous invention as a sign that thoughts can be shared through it.
- He does not credit the Anunnaki with creating reality; he asks whether they learned to exploit it by trapping souls in reincarnation.
- He presents the soul trap as a hypothesis, and his prescription is awareness: wake up, reprogram and step off the wheel.
Billy Carson's reading
Carson's position is layered. At the top sits a creation built from a much higher dimension, using mathematics he sees everywhere from the Mandelbrot set to supersymmetry. He lays out that model in his book Fractal Holographic Universe: The Matrix Code Revealed, and the site's guide to the fractal holographic universe summarizes it. Inside that creation, he argues, advanced beings recorded in the Sumerian tradition learned to work the code, the same beings examined in the site's piece on who the Anunnaki were.
For Carson, convergence is the argument. Ancient texts describe beings from the sky; philosophers discuss simulations; programmers build worlds that render on demand; a physicist finds code-like structures in particle mathematics. He treats that overlap like circumstantial evidence in a criminal case: no single piece settles it, but the pattern points somewhere. His broader case is set out in simulation theory explained, and his view of the book of life connects to the site's guide to the Akashic records.
What mainstream scholarship says
In the King James Version, "matrix" is an older English word for womb, from Latin; it appears in verses about the firstborn that "openeth the matrix", such as Exodus 13:12, which scholars read as laws about firstborn offerings rather than statements about illusion. Nick Bostrom, a philosopher, framed his 2003 simulation argument as a trilemma: civilizations almost never reach the ability to run ancestor simulations, or almost never choose to, or people are almost certainly simulated. It is a probability argument, not evidence for the third option. Gates' adinkras are diagrams for representing supersymmetry, and the error-correcting codes in them are a genuine mathematical result, but Gates has cautioned against reading it as proof of a simulation, and supersymmetry itself has not been confirmed by experiment.
Fractal graphics are real: Loren Carpenter, later a Pixar co-founder, used fractal subdivision to generate terrain in the early 1980s. No Man's Sky, from the UK studio Hello Games, generates roughly 18 quintillion planets from mathematical seeds. These are designed tools, which makes them analogies for a created universe rather than proof of one. In quantum mechanics, "observation" means a physical interaction with a measuring system; the view that consciousness collapses the wave function is a minority interpretation, and biology does not consider atoms alive.
The Sumerian King List does say kingship "descended from heaven", but no known cuneiform text describes the Anunnaki trapping souls or engineering reincarnation; that idea comes from modern authors. The Emerald Tablets Carson cites are the text Maurice Doreal published in the 1930s, distinct from the medieval Hermetic Emerald Tablet. Simultaneous invention, or multiple discovery, is usually explained by inventors drawing on the same available knowledge, and brain-decoding studies reconstruct rough images from signals measured inside a scanner, not thoughts traveling beyond the skull.
Watch, read and go deeper
For the physics behind the hologram idea, read is the universe a hologram, then browse the holographic universe topic hub for every related article. The audio of this live stream is an episode of the 4biddenknowledge Podcast. More of Carson's talks are collected in Best of Billy Carson on 4BK TV.
Frequently asked questions
Is the word "matrix" in the Bible?
Yes, in the King James Version, where "matrix" means womb, as in Exodus 13:12. Billy Carson reads the womb as a metaphor for waking from illusion and believes the film The Matrix drew on it. Most biblical scholars read the verses as laws about firstborn offerings.
Does Billy Carson think the Anunnaki created the simulation?
No. He says the realm is too sophisticated and must have been made from a much higher dimension. His question is whether the Anunnaki learned to manipulate it, possibly by keeping souls in a cycle of reincarnation, which he presents as a hypothesis.
What are James Gates' adinkra codes?
Adinkras are diagrams that physicist S. James Gates Jr. and colleagues developed to represent the mathematics of supersymmetry. Gates found that they contain error-correcting codes of the kind used in digital communications. Carson treats this as evidence that reality runs on code; mainstream physicists, including Gates, treat it as an intriguing mathematical result, not proof of a simulation.
What is the soul trap theory?
The soul trap theory holds that souls are held in a cycle of reincarnation on Earth instead of moving on to higher realms. In this video Carson asks whether the Anunnaki could have engineered such a loop, crediting the idea to the late author Gerald Clark. No ancient Mesopotamian text describes a soul trap; the idea is modern.
Sources mentioned
Carson cites the Bible, including John 1:1; Nick Bostrom; Michio Kaku, James Gates Jr. and Teresa Bullard; Benoit Mandelbrot; Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Kemetic accounts, including Zep Tepi; the Emerald Tablets; the late Gerald Clark; Edgar Cayce; the film The Matrix; No Man's Sky; and his own Fractal Holographic Universe: The Matrix Code Revealed. Standard references: Bostrom's "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" (The Philosophical Quarterly, 2003), Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), Gates' "Symbols of Power" (Physics World, 2010) and the Sumerian King List.
