The Woman Who Wrote the Future: Sophia Stewart, the True Mother of The Matrix and Terminator

Forget everything you thought you knew about the red pill. In 1981, a visionary author named Sophia Stewart penned an unpublished sci-fi epic called The Third Eye, a prophetic work rooted in Biblical allegory that spanned past, present, and future. Two decades later, the world watched The Terminator and The Matrix explode onto screens, only Stewart saw something no one else did: one franchise stole the beginning of her manuscript, the other stole the end. “They split my book in half,” she declared in 2014. “Terminator runs from front to back, The Matrix runs from back to front, two timelines moving in opposite directions, just like I wrote.”

What followed was one of the wildest copyright battles in Hollywood history, a fight that pitted a single Black woman from New York against two billion-dollar empires. Though the courts ruled against her in 2014, Stewart never wavered. To her, the proof isn’t just in the plots; it’s in the deeper spiritual code woven through both sagas, the hidden biblical symbolism, the chosen one rising against machines, that she says originated in the pages of The Third Eye. Love it or dispute it, one thing is undeniable: Sophia Stewart saw the future first, and she’s still demanding the world wake up and recognize.

Speaking on The Armstrong Williams Show, Stewart said:

The Terminator is the prequels to, or the beginning of, The Matrix. Sarah Connor is actually Neo’s mother. So JC — John Connor — is Jesus Christ. And he grows up to be Neo. They’re one and the same. The Matrix is in the future, The Terminator is the past. It’s time travel — past, present, future. It’s the second coming of the Christ, the evolution of consciousness, man versus the machine.

The Terminator machines hear that a child is going to be born that’s going to terminate them in the future when they oppress man. It’s man versus the machine. It’s God’s children versus man’s children, which was technology.

So the Terminator has to time travel to the past, because they know it’s Sarah Connor, and they have to kill her — terminate her — so she won’t have the baby. Kyle Reese, he comes from the future to protect her and he inadvertently gets her pregnant. He has to go back to the future. And that’s the Immaculate Conception, because now she’s pregnant and she fell in love with a man — but did it really happen? Did he exist?

And then this child, when you see the three Terminators, the boy and then the man — subconsciously he doesn’t know why the Terminator is trying to kill him until he’s hidden out in the city in The Matrix, the future. When he reaches 30 years of age, the rebellion reloaded revolution starts, and the rebels come, they find him because they’ve been watching him all along. That’s what the Guardians and the Sentinels are all about.

They wake him up to his purpose. They take him to Morpheus to train him to fight the machines. They take him to the Oracle because of the prophecy. This is the whole epic story.

You can watch Stewart’s full conversation with Williams here.

By Monica Cherry