Re: Seeking greater understanding of the Big Picture
Originally Posted by
Energize
While I play a game, I am immersed in the world and the experiences of the character I am playing. But when it is time to end the gaming session, I easily withdraw from the experience, and return to my regular reality. This strikes me as somewhat similar to the concept of a soul living lives in this dimension. Ending incarnation is like ending a gaming session. All in a much much more profound and deeper way of course, but I suspect there may be some conceptual similarities.
Yep. I've made that comparison, myself. It's a pretty good metaphor, I think.
Originally Posted by
Energize
often I will save my game at a particular crossroads, and try out different actions to see what happens, reloading the save each time. I've even taken it to extremes within the game system, like jumping my character off a cliff, just to see what's down there, heh heh! Ahhh...no consequences!
Yes. Exactly like that.
Originally Posted by
Energize
Could it be that the popularity of games has its root in peoples' unconscious identification with the process? Nah! It's just fun!
Human minds are by their nature easily drawn into the drama and conflict and comedy of stories. Books, plays, films, tv shows, video games... reality...
May the light surround you, may you be blessed. May the light surround us, may we be blessed. May love and light surround us all, and may we all be healed and blessed. And so it is, and so it shall be, now and ever after.
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