Whatever this experience is, we think it's real. We think we are somehow inherently real.
But, it's really a case of mistaken identity.
Many sense that they are somehow gaining experience points for any spiritual practice with the goal of getting to something, like becoming MORE spiritual, or to become MORE loving, or make some change.
But what we're really doing is grinding in World of Warcraft. Step the you-know-what away from the computer. Wake up! It's just a game. Through all of our spiritual practices, we are trying to add experience points--to a character that doesn't exist!
You're playing a game. Dude, you're dehydrated. Drink some water. You've been playing this freaking game for like 20 hours straight to the point where you forgot it was a game.
It's almost as if we want to push into the simulation. We want to repeat what's already happened. Maybe it has something to do with revision? Sort of like improvement science? Revise until...we get it right?
We are in a body and so we identify with that player character. We do everything we can to stay in our bodies and continue to develop the narrative of being an actual entity.
But some of the world's esoteric, heresitiacal wisdom traditions insist that the idea is to be pulled out of the body. The thinking is that we are in a game with a set of virtual reality goggles and we continue to try on more and more virtual reality goggles to a point where we forget that we are looking and seeing and feeling and hearing things through millions of virtual reality goggles; goggles we keep putting on ourselves that we call our culture, our heritage our story, our persona.
We are in an #infiniteIngress into matter and time, and so we desperately cling on to our virtual reality simulation goggles.
We don't want to feel the feeling or actually experience the reality of existence. That's why we leave those glasses on.
Shall we discuss what the implications are? Because, it's not going to end well.
#OculusRift2
Take a look at this VR app, and you'll sense the gist of what I'm putting down... https://www.oculus.com/experiences/app/2731491443600205/?utm_source=oculus&utm_medium=share
P.S.S. Ironic that it's the SECOND Virtual Virtual Reality, no?