Life in our household has, in part, left the building, ~World of WarCraft is the cyber reality who’s presence looms within our home.
Now, one can’t say that this isn’t a good thing. I observe from a front row seat/ batboy-waterboy perspective. What I see is what, for the players, is seemingly more ‘real’, than anything outside of it, for hours on end. Log-in equals a dimension shift in reality, a sort of slider effect. (Remember the series?) If you look at where one places ones attention as being where one experiences reality at any given moment, reality takes on a very shadowy texture.
A few years ago, I came to this analogy about the sliding effect while watching forgiveness reformat my life. It felt completely natural, whatever shifts were made, like being there all along, no residual angst. Yet in a hindsight review, I could not reasonably connect the dots as to how a situation congested with guilt and shame, anger or resentment, could transform itself to one of unity and love, teeming with genuine care and kindness… How did it get that way? Slide………..
Deciding for forgiveness seems to be the portal….. Peace of mind, the new world. Forgiveness divulges openness, where becoming takes a side-line to being. Point of view becomes Spirit-view… Here’s what revealed itself: Seeking anything outside oneness, including ‘spiritual-ness’, is the domain of the ego mind. Plain and simple.
Yet, being present, in Love with ‘what is’ without reservation or interpretation, but openly encountered in the here and now, is all that is needed. It is the heartbeat of the real, here. It allows for love to focus itself, which envisions the world in a completely different, very essential way. The characters might all seem the same, but everything about them is essentially different to the ‘slider’/ experiencer. Presence of love/Self is experienced beneath the time/space materialization of the seeming ‘real’ world.
Just thoughts… ~Love~slide~
2 Comments:
I like your *slide* thought :) I like this post.
I really think that that is what makes the difference in being in the *right* place for our kids in this unschooling life. Sliding on into their reality, seeing their joy.
Our family was playing WoW for most of the last year, I still have a couple kids who play. It is an amazing experience.
My family is a WoW family. I love how well it mirrors RL. You get what you give in the game. If you are kind and generous- you find those kind of people to play with and it becomes a game of friendship. I love your *slide* thought because you cannot be in control and slide at the same time. There is a certain amount of trust and faith that you will end up somewhere different but still okay.
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