We (or at least a lot of us) have heard of the law of attraction and the book and film called The Secret - it's interesting stuff... it got me thinking about the amount of time I (and my closest friend) spend playing on PC games and Internet games like Farmville (which recently won an award as a social gaming site) and the fact that the games offer us a means of creating a new, virtual reality for ourselves. They allow us to dream and to form a reality around those dreams - pretty cool stuff.
The question I have been pondering from a negative angle, was whether or not these 'virtual realities' that we create could act as a means of blocking us from achieving our desires. For example, if we're playing Sims and creating a new home for our Sims family, based around our personal desires for a new home, does this mean that the Universe will see us as having achieved that desire - the new home has after all manifested itself, albeit in a virtual fashion..
Thinking about it, (whilst watching the UK series In The Night Garden with my little daughter of 16 months - her virtual world!), these games are really a fantastic way of us playing with ideas and establishing whether or not what we are creating in our virtual worlds is what we really want and what suits us in the real world. Farmville involves creating a farm (no surprises there) which you run on a day to day basis planting and harvesting crops, feeding chickens and soforth - if you take a look at all the thousands of varieties of farms that have been created by people, it gives you a sense of the different ways in which people think about and organise their lives - this thinking probably demonstrates some of the desires that the people playing the game have - from a tightknit, well organised farmyard to an untidy collection of tractors and animals randomly arranged around some crops.. Whether consciously or not, every time we look at our farms, we see reflections of the way we are and who we want to be, and we have the opportunity to adapt them or keep them the same depending on whether we are happy with them or not. So we are given an opportunity to see things as we initially created them, and then to change them to better suit our vision.
3D computer aided design has changed the way buildings are designed, allowing clients to see their building as designed and built in a virtual world, before they sign off a design and get it constructed. I have no doubt that within the foreseeable future, we will be able to do the same thing with our lives - all it involves is transferring a mental image of who and what we want to be, into a 3D virtual image, and then having the belief, faith and wherewithal to see that life manifest.
Have a great day!
Peter
The question I have been pondering from a negative angle, was whether or not these 'virtual realities' that we create could act as a means of blocking us from achieving our desires. For example, if we're playing Sims and creating a new home for our Sims family, based around our personal desires for a new home, does this mean that the Universe will see us as having achieved that desire - the new home has after all manifested itself, albeit in a virtual fashion..
Thinking about it, (whilst watching the UK series In The Night Garden with my little daughter of 16 months - her virtual world!), these games are really a fantastic way of us playing with ideas and establishing whether or not what we are creating in our virtual worlds is what we really want and what suits us in the real world. Farmville involves creating a farm (no surprises there) which you run on a day to day basis planting and harvesting crops, feeding chickens and soforth - if you take a look at all the thousands of varieties of farms that have been created by people, it gives you a sense of the different ways in which people think about and organise their lives - this thinking probably demonstrates some of the desires that the people playing the game have - from a tightknit, well organised farmyard to an untidy collection of tractors and animals randomly arranged around some crops.. Whether consciously or not, every time we look at our farms, we see reflections of the way we are and who we want to be, and we have the opportunity to adapt them or keep them the same depending on whether we are happy with them or not. So we are given an opportunity to see things as we initially created them, and then to change them to better suit our vision.
3D computer aided design has changed the way buildings are designed, allowing clients to see their building as designed and built in a virtual world, before they sign off a design and get it constructed. I have no doubt that within the foreseeable future, we will be able to do the same thing with our lives - all it involves is transferring a mental image of who and what we want to be, into a 3D virtual image, and then having the belief, faith and wherewithal to see that life manifest.
Have a great day!
Peter
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