07-07-2011, 04:48 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-07-2011, 04:58 AM by Bring4th_Steve.)
This is a topic that has often been on my mind. In case anyone is interested, I started a thread in January 2009 about the pros and cons of video games and how it affects spiritual evolution.
I even went so far as to ask Q'uo directly, which I know that conversation is published not too far from the 2009 thread.
Check it out if this topic remains of interest to you!
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=66
My personal outlook has remained that any "avatar" we fight or kill, slowly erodes our minds (through conditioning) and detracts from the energy that we could have spent refining our compassion or ability to Love. Most of us know it would be crazy to go out into our everyday world and start shooting up people, but the problem is that there are many gamers who fantasize of actually killing foreigners or other real-life representations as if they were actually committing the act. I believe Q'uo stated something about your mind processing the act of killing and passing along that negative energy to your energy body where it reduces its overall vibration, as if the energy were involved in the actual act of killing.
Ever since I made that connection, I have steered away from many of the violent games that I have once enjoyed, even though I personally never equated the killing of avatars as a symbol that has repercussions on my energy body in real life.
So to round off that thought, the significance of this is directly tied to the "action and intention" of killing/destroying, and not so much about whether some colorful pixels were obliterated instead of another human being, ant or fly (as an extreme example).
Steve
I even went so far as to ask Q'uo directly, which I know that conversation is published not too far from the 2009 thread.
Check it out if this topic remains of interest to you!
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=66
My personal outlook has remained that any "avatar" we fight or kill, slowly erodes our minds (through conditioning) and detracts from the energy that we could have spent refining our compassion or ability to Love. Most of us know it would be crazy to go out into our everyday world and start shooting up people, but the problem is that there are many gamers who fantasize of actually killing foreigners or other real-life representations as if they were actually committing the act. I believe Q'uo stated something about your mind processing the act of killing and passing along that negative energy to your energy body where it reduces its overall vibration, as if the energy were involved in the actual act of killing.
Ever since I made that connection, I have steered away from many of the violent games that I have once enjoyed, even though I personally never equated the killing of avatars as a symbol that has repercussions on my energy body in real life.
So to round off that thought, the significance of this is directly tied to the "action and intention" of killing/destroying, and not so much about whether some colorful pixels were obliterated instead of another human being, ant or fly (as an extreme example).
Steve