The Virtual and the Spiritual
- Kal Ng
- Apr 4, 2018
- 1 min read

The spiritual is fullness of being without material regards, it almost always involve faith and hope. Through these two quality arise the nature of love, the love of the being towards itself first and then to other beings. The spiritual is the affirmation of life as embodiment of richness and knowledge, the potential to create and to fullfill dreams. The virtual is the representation of the real in its dream form, in the form of ideas and representations. The material real can all be represented by the virtual, through technology, ideas, concepts, stories, notions. In the film Ready Player One, the world is addicted to virtual reality experience and given up in solving problems of the real world, the most frightening things are the scrupulous corporate merchants and not the dictators or tyrants. The most frightening things is complete immersion into the virtual and missed what the real has to offer. But what if the body and the real can also be replaced? Can the spirit be replaced or replicated? That's a crucial question, you love someone because of the spirit. Even the virtual avatar is not the spirit of the person. Or the soul of a person, the essence. But the virtual is a representation of that spirit, closer to its unmasked form. The virtual has its function in terms of the spirit.
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