A personal theory on cults/religions/conspiracy theories...

“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”

We are not our bodies, and our lives here are temporary, but we can’t actually comprehend the universe. I’m guessing that we do not need this human form to exist, there is “something more”, but that it is something outside of time and in so many dimensions that the human brain doesn't stand a chance at comprehending it. But still, on a deep level, we know this. We all have this deep vague knowing that this isn’t all there is. This is why that scene from the Matrix hit us all so hard.

"Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain — but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life — that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind — driving you mad."

We are desperately seeking an answer that we can't actually have. That does drive us a bit crazy and leads us to accept very incomplete and flawed, and often dangerous, simple human answers. These answers come in the form of cults and religions.