Sumant,

I agree. It is refreshing to see them be inspired by mythical ideals rather than stealing or violence.
I can't help feel though that the virtual world is even less real than the physical world and to spend too much time on it keeps them busy from acting in the physical world and being actively involved in some kind of positive change. I am not even working right now but with all that I am involved in for greater good I really don't have time to sit and play some game for hours.
I think they should strive to have those experiences in a spiritual and physical way because it is possible. Practices such as meditation and yoga are essential to developing powers than can take you there.
Remote Viewing is a very real way to have more than real experiences of cosmic travel, and again, practise makes perfect.

Rita

Gaming - or i should say communities interacting with one another via gaming - is the future I think. the numbers in terms of participation and if effectively channeled into revenue generating business - are staggering. Already we know that gaming revs are outdoing Hollywood and that's in large part without the partcipation of the rest of the world or taking into account multi-player gamingactivites.

re: your point specifically, is it fascinating how the online universe so effectively captures the mythic elements of great story-telling and even the nature of physics. the existence of all this invisible activity is mind-blowing. Neopets combines this with an emotional craving and has cornered a unique market share. I'm surprised it actually did not sell for more!

BTW - did you know there is another property called AVATAR? Still another topic for discussion for this blog - the "Asianization" of content. Another day!

This is a great story. Check this link for great spiritual truth. Kimo

I was thinking that the virtual and real world aren't flipping, but merging... My son, who's ten, has a virtual pet, is a leader of a virtual quiddich-team, has virtual friends... when he meets his real friends, he is still a leader, more so since he has found the virtual world. It seems to me that the virtual world is encouraging us, young and old, to find and express our archetypal themes in this single reality that contains everything we may differentiate as "real" or "virtual".

I ponder on the words "virtual " and "real"

concepts I have become so much more concious of ...

to realize that they are so intertwined ...

depending of how conscious or unconcious I am ...

what is that motivates me in my mind ...

and what flows deep inside my heart ...

So often I fail to comprehend ...

strangely just spent some time in my inverted machine .. after an early visit to the chirop and phsyio ...

to help me unlock my neck .. heart area and lower grounds ...

to hear my spine unwind ... like a sleeping giant of some kind ...

as I stared into the beautiful ancient ceiling

from an upside down position...

what is real and what is virtual ??? I wonder when I look at my life ...

what I hear is "look at what is that remains...

I think about one of my most striking memories ... between worlds I got to know ...

I was attenting a workshop ... led by a psychic ...

she worked with someone on stage .. who had been sexually molested at some point in time ...

to watch my body starting shaking violently .. which I attempted to hide ...

to be found and asked to go on stage ...

without a word I moved my body .. my hands shaking so violently I kept them tight inside my long protective coat...

to see the psychic moving backwards ... to the end of the hall ... asking people what they saw ...

I moved inwards .. my eyes closed .. praying to God ... " help me move through this ...I know I can ... just stay with me ... and hold me as I focus on what is here... calling for me ... "

I listened to the psychic words ...

" watch now how she moves across dimentions ... 3rd .. 5th .. 9th .. 12th .."

I opened my eyes ... the room had changed ... my eyes so wide open I seemed to be holding the world in my overstreched, peaceful arms ...

as i went home suddenly I saw this huge polyp in my vagina ... I could not have missed ...

That night I had a dream ... where I was taken by light beings to a place high above ...

my body was layed on a table and I saw a number of hands shining light on me ... intense heat filling every cell of my body .. as I heard the words "you are healed"

to realize I was now floating above the table ...

I looked down as if my spirit had moved to higher grounds ... so that I could see ... that my body was made of pure light ...

an experience so real I can remember it in every detail ... even if it all happened in such a surreal set up ... it is hard to explain...

I had the polyp taken out the next morning and it proved to be benign ...

question is "what was real and what virtual in this experience ?"

possibly the reason for my struggle to communicate ...

as it all seems so upside down ..

and yet so very real to what is that I know ...

the power of this dance with the invisible ...

which in truth ...

has become my home ...

I feel very sad today ...

Baba: God (-dess) I love the way you write, and what you write. You are a true mystic! Just an opinion--of course--but I would say that that your experience of the healing light, guides, and thier physical results are respectively, the Reality and the virtual--in that order.

In other words: the mirror and its two faces--with the veil that still "appears" to separate the two worlds (and it is fading and diminishing this historical time-frame; i.e.-the veil between Heaven and Earth shall pass away), is both virtual/actuality and reality.

I would suggest, however, that this world is the virtual one--or the illusory one that we are be awakened both from, and in--while we still seem to be "here."

I love your honesty--that you feel sad today--that is what the great teachers ask us to be aware of--what we really feel--not what we think we "should" feel.

To awaken us--Spirit needs us to be honest, not right. Like we can fool Spirit with our attempts at appearing to know what...-the-fu..we are being and doing! Love--Dave

you bring me to tears ..

of a different kind ...

as it is so rewarding for me to feel understood...

in a world where I have felt so alone ...

in my ignorance and egocentrical ways ...

paradoxically so...

as I cannot describe what is like for me to come back the virtual world (i adore your explanation as it makes so much sense to me ) after these very intense experiences ...

to feel so close to such pure and light energy and then getting captured by its opposite form...

which often leaves me so bewildered I feel paralysed ...

whcih is what has happened in these last years in many ways ...

which is possibly what makes me so sad today ...

as I truly want to make a difference ..by giving it all back to life ..

fully and without holding anyting back ...

and yet at times I feel so infinitely tired ...

oh the mystic ...

the greatest cosmic joke of my life ...

and yet it is my father I see ...

that forever seemed to see me ...

even if so profoundly tormented he never trusted another human being ...

i feel my father so close to me today ...

in ways where there is no pain ....

just these memories of pure light and love that knows no boundaries ...

no wonder he was buried with the rosary I gave him in Fatima ...

looking so peaceful (I did not attend his funeral) everyone commented on it ...

as apparently he looked like Mona Lisa ...

the opposite to his tormented soul ...

here .. on earth ...

except when he was in sacred places or with me ...

so thank you ...

for reminding me of both worlds ...

and that is Ok to simply feel sad ...

Hi Baba (again): I've never met him--Sai Baba--but I hear about him, even here in Colorado--the things he "materializes"--like the Holy Oil--across space and time. The stories are the proof of: If a man (or woman!) can conceive it, so can it be!
So you are "Hi Baba" as the feminine then? In- the-becoming of a "Sai Baba" for us all? N'est Pas! Dave

humm Saibaba ...

how he came into my life without knowing of his existence ...

at a time where I was close to death .. struggling with every breath ...

teh experiences ...

at times I just want to scream ...as it feels so overwhelming ...

there is one that comes to mind ...

he appeared in my dreams at that time ... asking me to dance .. in this big hall ... with a very cheeky smile ...

helping me to build a crown of roses .. with different levels ...as if setting an intention clealry with me ...

to realize later that as I touched my hair .. each curl unfolded to become a rose ...
falling on the floor ...

and then I saw myself dancing ... first with another ... and later on my own ... so very happy ... as if the world was my lover ...

it touched me so deeply I made a drawing of it ...

to be invited that same day to a gathering of saibaba's devotees ...

and as I sat there I was captured by a similar image in a picture ... right in front of me .. impossible to miss ...

i never really understood it ...

and yes I have Saibaba's big picture righ in front of me ... heat treated .. without glass ...just like Pieta ...

from his book "the man of miracles "

as if he is offering me his hand ...

this is quite emotional for me ...

as it feels so pradoxical ..

specially when pointed out by someone ...

as if making it more real ...

and yet ...

to tell you the truth

it feels as if my life has been taken over by forces greater than i am ...

which is what leaves me bewildered ...

as no matter how much I scream ...

I keep being dragged ...

jsut like when I was a little girl ...

as if I have no choice ...

which is not easy for my spirit ...

and yet ...

when i get out of the way it is all so effortless

it feels as if I have wings and I fly like a eagle ...

or little ones ...

like bees ...

looking for the nectar of whatever is

calling me

by my name ...

"Hi Baba": Ditto! Dave

Sumant,

I live in the tension of embracing my virtual world and mourning the limited dimensionality of it which both discourages and affords free expression.

Douglas Smith has written a great book on the shift from communities of place to communities of purpose called "On Values and Value"(http://www.douglasksmith.com/value&values.htm).
This community shift is most evident online, and manifests in collaborative online environments (from online courses to wikis to blogs). One of my favorites is Moodle--an open source learning tool that allows for a greater customization.

Simran

Dear Sumant
Thanks to your writing Simran has mentioned the article on `shift from communities of place to communities of purpose`.
Hope to see more articles by you
Neelam

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