A "Soul-quester" has, in virtual realities, heard Indra speak from the thunder, questioned Jesus Christ and felt Kwan-Yin's compassion. Is this blasphemous? People have dramatized Biblical narratives so why not an interactive drama? It would be idolatrous if anyone worshiped a simulation. Presumably the Soul-quester hopes to learn from virtual reality before returning to reality. He claims that he is:
"'...trying to understand and enter into God...'" (p. 361)
- not to make his own God.
Over the page, we find:
"White on a throne or guarded in a cave
"There lives a prophet who can understand
"Why men were born -" (p. 362)
- which is yet another quotation from "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think I would find it hard to take a "virtual reality" very seriously. I think I would always have in the back of my mind the realization it was fake.
And I would have to disagree with the Soul-quester's claim about "...trying to understand and enter into Go..." Because it would be, by definition, impossible for a limited creature to totally understand that infinity which is God.
Ad astra! Sean
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