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Watch the AniMatrix.
There are other ways... to get out.
... they are just exceptionally difficult to pull off, and can only be pulled off by exceptional individuals.
... ... and they also do not tend to involve a real world hovercraft crew waiting to retrieve your emaciated, atrophied and basically blind body.
You're on your own.
There was that buddhist monk kid who bent spoons
Might imply that meditation can do it
Yes, I would say that a kind of... immense spiritual awareness, or contemplative understanding of the interconnected nature of reality (and yourself) constitutes a kind of very strong belief.
Though I don't think its explicitly stated in the movies that the 'spoon kid' ... literally pulls himself out of the matrix...
In MxO, which is I guess roughly 'secondary canon', one of the kinds of character archetypes you can play as, is basically 'zen master', so yeah I would tend to agree that thats probably another reasonably valid 'canonical' way by which someone could escape the matrix on their own, transcend 'reality'.