The game would, of course, continue for the other players. We would feel miserable not playing the game and want to get back into the trap as a new identity in the game, or the old one reanimated. If we got so involved in our game that we forgot who we were, then we would experience great shock when our identity in the game died. The number of choices to pick the right route home very quickly becomes unimaginably huge! Even an infinite being would soon get stuck. We would have had more than 10 choices each time and we would have done this more than 20 times. Which video game player are you really? For an immortal spirit playing such games over a vast period of time, the number of possibilities is vastly greater than any number imaginable! If every time we made a choice there were 10 options and we made the choice six times, the number of choices to work through to get back would be a million. You would have to find out who you really are. Imagine you are stuck in a game and want to get out. There are also many games: even games within games. We could do this so many times that we lose track of who is playing the game and who is part of the game. Having done this many times we lose track
To all intents and purposes, we are that character. We experience only what our identity in the game might experience from that identity's point of view and according to the game's rules and programming. We get so involved that we forget our true identities and what we are doing and become our identity in the game. We all take sides and control our characters in the game. Suppose a number of us were playing a video game. But they are merely light forms, and have no real existence, let alone the ability to feel pain or any other emotion. If one is hurt, then we flinch and feel the pain. Yet when we identify with them, we create thoughts, feelings, intentions and experiences which we project into them. In a video game, none of the characters or identities have any thoughts or feelings or intentions, because none of them is real. We create the thoughts and feelings in our identities Likewise, the human video players are so involved in their game that they do not even know who they really are. Have you ever tried to talk to children watching a favourite television programme? They are so involved they can't even hear you. At least momentarily, you forget who you are and think you actually are the character in the game. You identify with one of the players and you think, feel and experience the game from the limited point of view of one of your game characters. You 'get into' playing it so much you forget that there is something other than the game. We forget our true nature.Īt first you are just playing the game.
We are like players of a video game - we get so involved in the game that we forget that we are playing a game.
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