Comments on: The Coming Era of Virtual Reality https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/02/the-coming-era-of-virtual-reality Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 05 Jun 2017 03:13:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: Aryadeep S. Acharya https://lifeboat.com/blog/2016/02/the-coming-era-of-virtual-reality#comment-287505 Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:20:08 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=21486#comment-287505 Extremely interesting and very enthusing. Thank you. I am reminded of the experience of a French mystic who was living in south India during major part of the last century. Once she had a longing to go to Himalaya. One day, she was sitting in a small courtyard and the wall which separated it from next courtyard had shards of glass stuck on top of the wall (to keep out thieves). Suddenly a ray of sunlight on a sharp piece of blue glass on top of the wall caught her eyes. What happened next? In her own words: ” And positively, spontaneously, without thinking or reflecting or anything … I saw the summits of the Himalayas: I was on the summits of the Himalayas.
It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and the lightness of the mountains – it was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.
After that half hour I hadn’t the slightest wish to go!”

Similarly, she spoke of another experience of sea: “I was given a similar experience with the sea.… In the house… there’s a veranda with a little nook, and set in the nook is a window (not a window, actually – an opening), and through the opening you can glimpse a patch of sea, no bigger than this (gesture). And at that time too the body was feeling closed in, a little weary and confined. .…. And one day, as I am walking across the veranda .…. I turn my eye and … I see the sea. And suddenly it was all oceanic immensity – and with a sense of free sailing, from one place to another.… The sea breeze, the taste of the sea, and the sense of immensity, vastness, freedom … something limitless. It lasted a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes. My body came out of it refreshed, as if I had gone for a long sail.
I want to emphasize that the effect is PHYSICAL: the experience is concrete and has a physical effect.”

What that French mystic experienced decades ago (between 1920 and 1940) might become an accessible experience to all humanity thanks to VR. In fact, she had wished at that time that she could transmit her experience to others as well.

The world is changing, evolving, becoming a paradise!

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