Short answer: No, and the material provides a direct test for this. Mari Swaruu stated that the very fact that you are questioning if you are one or not unequivocally means you are a real person with a soul. An NPC cannot question its own nature (Transcript S-049). By extension, an NPC cannot seek out alternative information, watch videos about consciousness and extraterrestrial contact, or wonder whether the world is more than what the system tells them. The act of searching for this kind of content is itself evidence that you are not an NPC. The audience for this material is, almost by definition, composed of real people.
What defines an NPC's behaviour
The defining characteristic of an NPC, as described by the Swaruu group, is the inability to step outside a programmed set of responses. Yazhi described their programming as comparable to a basic computer language — an if-then-else algorithm that simulates consciousness without possessing it. If you talk to them about spirituality, the algorithm says "then I should say that I read Krishnamurti." It levels your spiritual knowledge by making you believe they are engaged, when in reality they are just a programme emulating having a consciousness (Transcript 320).
This is not an occasional limitation — it is absolute. Yazhi described NPC-type people as following a fixed thought pattern that they cannot get out of no matter how many arguments you throw at them (Transcript 320). The key word is "cannot." It is not that they choose not to think outside the box; it is that they are structurally incapable of doing so. There is no one inside to make the choice.
Swaruu described the same pattern in the original NPC transcript: all those who dismiss conspiracy theories, UFOs, monsters and ghosts are Matrix or Matrixed people. Because those things are not from the Matrix. They have no intelligent reaction but what the Matrix has taught them to do, to react. And that is with the very same comments and reactions (Transcript 009).
The programme has a limited set of responses. When confronted with information outside its script, it dismisses, deflects, or returns to what is socially accepted. It cannot engage in genuine exploration of new ideas. It cannot be curious about things the system has not sanctioned.
The four levels of awareness
Mari Swaruu described four levels of awareness on Earth, each representing a distinct relationship to the system and to truth (Transcript S-121).
Level one is the Matrix person. These individuals live according to what society imposes on them as truths. They never question anything, or perhaps only to a very shallow degree. They believe the medical system is to keep them healthy, politics are real, science is the ultimate tool for finding truth. Anything related to extraterrestrials is ludicrous. Anyone who disagrees is a crazy conspiracy theorist. These are the people whose behaviour most closely matches the NPC descriptions from Transcripts 009 and 320.
Level two is people beginning to suspect that something is wrong — that there is corruption, that food may be poisoned, that elections may be problematic — but who still explain everything within the framework of the system. They think the problems are caused by bad actors within a basically functional structure.
Level three is people who have had a strong spiritual awareness arising and who seek answers outside the social norm. They believe in starseeds, extraterrestrials, and alternative histories. They follow spiritual leaders and communities. They want to awaken everyone around them.
Level four is people who have seen through even the alternative communities and who research everything on their own, listen to everyone, but follow no one blindly. They know they are the extraterrestrial. They remain silent about what they know.
Anyone watching Mari's videos — anyone who has found this material, engaged with it, and cares about its content — is by definition at least at level three. They have moved beyond the system's prescribed reactions. They are actively seeking information that the Matrix would have them dismiss.
An NPC cannot reach level three. It cannot have a spiritual awareness arising, because there is no one inside to have it. It cannot feel that it does not belong, because it has no inner self that experiences alienation from the programme. It cannot be curious about extraterrestrials, because curiosity is a function of consciousness, and NPC bodies run on programming, not consciousness.
The self-questioning test
The most direct answer comes from Mari in Transcript S-049. Addressing the anxiety some listeners feel about whether they themselves might be NPCs, she was categorical: the very fact that you are questioning if you are one or not unequivocally means you are a real person with a soul. An NPC cannot question its own nature. The capacity for self-reflection and existential doubt is itself the proof of being real.
This principle extends to the act of watching the videos. Seeking out information about the nature of reality, consciousness, starseeds, and the Matrix requires exactly the kind of independent thought and genuine curiosity that an NPC cannot produce. The NPC's algorithm can mimic interest in socially sanctioned topics — it can follow sports, discuss politics within accepted parameters, express opinions that the system endorses — but it cannot independently pursue information that the system has not authorised.
The very act of watching these videos — of clicking on a channel that discusses extraterrestrial contact, of listening to claims that would be dismissed as insane by the Level One population, of returning for more — is an expression of genuine consciousness. It is a choice that falls outside the NPC script.
What about people who watch but do not understand?
There is a subtlety here. The material acknowledges that not everyone who encounters this information genuinely engages with it. Yazhi described the NPC algorithm as able to simulate engagement: if you talk to them about spirituality, then the algorithm says it should mention Krishnamurti. It levels your spiritual knowledge by making you believe they are engaged (Transcript 320).
Could an NPC stumble across a video, watch it, and respond with a programmed reaction — "interesting, but probably nonsense" — without ever genuinely processing the content? The material does not address this specific scenario directly, but the logic of the framework suggests it is possible in principle. An NPC might encounter alternative content the way it encounters anything else — as input that triggers a pre-programmed response without any genuine internal processing.
However, the distinction the material draws is between one-off encounters and sustained engagement. An NPC can react to a stimulus. What it cannot do is pursue a line of thought over time, develop its understanding, change its mind, or feel the inner pull to keep searching for answers. Sustained engagement with this kind of material — watching multiple videos, thinking about the concepts, questioning one's own nature — requires exactly the kind of genuine consciousness that defines a real person.
Mari described NPC-type people as becoming confused, blaming you for saying nonsense, and doing anything possible to return to their sterile routine when confronted with new ideas that fall outside their social programming (Transcript S-049). This is the opposite of what the audience for this material does. The audience comes back. It wants more. It wants to understand.
The sleeping population is not the NPC population
One important distinction the material maintains is between NPCs and sleeping real people. The sleeping population — those who follow the rules, watch the news, pay their taxes — includes many real souls who have chosen a deep level of immersion. They are not NPCs. They have souls. They have the capacity to awaken. They simply have not done so yet, either because their life plan does not include awakening in this incarnation or because they have not yet encountered the catalyst that would trigger it.
Yazhi described this overlap: two people who are both real may not be real to each other if they have no meaningful connection. You walk past someone on the street and they are nothing more than a lamp post to you, and you are a lamp post to them (Transcript 320). A sleeping real person may look exactly like an NPC from the outside. The behavioural markers are the same — conformity, inability to engage with new ideas, defensive reactions when pushed.
But the sleeping population can, in principle, awaken. Some of them might one day find Mari's videos and begin their journey. An NPC never will — not because it chooses not to, but because there is no one inside to choose.
The practical implication
The seventy-five percent figure refers to the total Earth population. It does not mean that seventy-five percent of any specific subgroup — such as the audience for alternative media — is NPC. If anything, the material suggests the opposite: the people drawn to this content are disproportionately real, precisely because the content is the kind of thing that only a real person would seek out.
Mari framed the false people concept as a tool for managing attention: it can help us understand that we do not need to waste our time and energy on people who are truly irrelevant to our lives (Transcript S-049). The implication is that the people who are relevant — the ones who find your content, who engage with your ideas, who care about consciousness and truth — are overwhelmingly real.
If you are watching these videos, you are almost certainly real. If you are worried about being an NPC, you are definitely real. The question itself is its own answer.
Sources: Transcript 009 (Not Real People — Swaruu of Erra), Transcript 320 (Unreal People Becoming All Real — Yazhi Swaruu), Transcript S-049 (The False People and You — Mari Swaruu), Transcript S-121 (Awakening and Awareness — Mari Swaruu)
Speakers cited: Swaruu of Erra, Yazhi Swaruu, Mari Swaruu