Playing games that usually require violence as a pacifist.

[Plenum]

Or are games just "sleeping" as Ra calls most human entertainment?

I think, personally, that when Ra made that comment -

"34.13 Questioner: What is the general overall effect of television on our society with respect to this catalyst?

Ra: I am Ra. Without ignoring the green-ray attempts of many to communicate via this medium such information, truth, and beauty as may be helpful, we must suggest that the sum effect of this gadget is that of distraction and sleep."

they were speaking of the net effect of such gadgets (and tv would naturally extend into computer/gaming/internet/consoles of today).

it is all up to the individual whether they use such tools to 'go to sleep' as Ra puts it, or to avoid dealing with the self (ie the catalysts that are present in one's daily round of experience; especially if one is in full time work, then the hours of leisure are fairly limited in the evening and must be weighed carefully, with the consideration that one may be exhausted and tired too, and so such 'distraction' might be very appealing).

gaming, to me, represents the next front in the expression of the mass mind (ie collective unconscious) occupying the place that movies once did, and that cable tv shows have been exemplifying for a few years now. There is much to observe when the budgets of these games sometimes reaches into the 30 and 40 million dollar range; you have a lot of creatives pooling their collective reach into the collective mind to deliver something that will engage a large number of people.

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I think it is also good to remember that once you start working with the higher centres, catalyst can be created by the self from almost any stimulus, and so for an individual who is intensely aware of the processes of mind, the actual external experience becomes much less of an over-riding factor. It is the transformation of that catalyst into higher vibratonal food which then drives the process:

"The more conscious entity, being conscious of the catalytic process, will begin to transform the catalyst offered by the sub-Logos into catalyst which may act upon the higher energy nexi. 54.17"

so it doesn't really matter to such an individual whether it is a computer game, a baseball game, or a walk through a sewer ... such an individual can find catalytic food in almost anything.