I find it terribly ironic that we have in places, such as Second Life, virtual reality Buddhist temples, when in fact the whole point of Buddhism is to remove the individual from the trappings of mentally projected virtual realities—typically emanating, in the literature, from ‘self.’
I am sure you have heard one time or another, while listening to the account of an eye-witness to an event be it accident, robbery, etc., they will express it as ‘just like watching a video or playing a video game’.
When I was a kid I thought virtual reality was among the most exciting possibilities that technology had to offer the human race. I remember there was a game show on Nickelodeon in the early '90s where contestants got to enter a video game, and I would have done anything to try it out.
Everything you see and hear means absolutely nothing. All that really matters are the ones you're with at each moment.
So what about being with no one? Is that okay too? Is all that really necessary or is this okay too? I might well actually be okay.
We have entered a period of epistemological chaos. The true condition of our world, indeed the very nature of our phenomenal reality, including agreement regarding the meaning of knowledge itself, is completely up for grabs.
As I sit at my laptop, surfing the internet I noticed something. A feeling, I suppose I will call it. I felt like I was inside the computer so to speak. My mother always tells me I need to come out of my Computer. I think about this and she is right, I am on this laptop 80% of my waking hours, if not more. It is always beside me, always on, always logged in…I am ALWAYS connected.
Many extra-ordinary people, with all their idiosyncrasies, quirks, obsessive drives for knowledge and systemic questioning, repress and hide their true selves, because it's not valued and doesn't fit in with the normal assumptions of society. It throws a wrench into the otherwise harmonious society.
"A theory does not totalize; it is an instrument for multiplication and it also multiplies itself...It is in the nature of power to totalize and...theory is by nature opposed to power." Deleuze
Getting Acquainted with Consciousness Explorer 1.0: Exploration via Hacking Physical and Nonphysical Matter Realities An Reintroduction to Basic Mediation, Virtual Realities, & Big TOE Theory
“…I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.”
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
