Meditation on Video Games and Religious Spirituality

A simple reflection in my quest to sublimate all that nostalgic experience and find its root in spirituality.

Seeing the physical world as a video game helps with the following:

1. Physicality is created and thus limited and purposeful.
2. Your first-person perspective is controlled by the you in real life; you are not your body and you are capable of more objective choice.
3. There are objectives to accomplish that allow you to advance, transform, and perform a unique role.
4. There is a directed storyline and algorithm that flows around you whether you like it or not.
5. Life is really, really beautiful.

To which my friend Tzvi Kilov added that

1. Problems are meant to be solved, because the designer is benevolent.
2. You can always start over, since the game doesn’t exist for itself but rather as expression and communication between designer and player.