My Story Page 59: Virtual Reality

Reality is what exists out there; and we are able to sense it too, in here.

Virtual reality is what does not exist, but we are still able to sense it.

It is a kind of make-believe delusion.

Like a ghost!

Yes, a ghost would be so, if every single person could sense it the way another does.

But everyone does not sense ghosts.

So, they cannot be categorized as virtual reality.

You may call them our flights of fantasy.

Our personal flights!

What I am talking about is a flight that anyone can take anytime!

One only requires a few tools for that.

And we will vouch for the realness of the experience that this virtual device makes us sense through our sense organs.

Although it is virtual reality; yet, to our perception, it is as good as real.

Are we aiming to fool our perception?

No, we cannot; since our brain knows it is virtual reality only.

So, what are we going to achieve out of this virtual reality experience?

We are only going to provide an efficient aid to our imagination.

All fear is imagination. Is it not?

It is only in the mind. Yes!

We imagine our fears, and then we get scared of them.

Our mind assesses the probability of this unwelcome imagination turning into reality.

Of course at a future moment!

It is the probability of that future moment going to actualize that scares us in the present.

But if our mind knows that the probability is zero, and still the imagination is so vivid as a reflex biological action that the body jumps into the inevitable experience of the unconscious fear (not fears!) stored inside it since eternity, the mind goes into the oblivion for the duration of the experience.

It thinks not!

The body takes this virtual reality as a real one. Once it enters it, there is no way to come out of it. Something like the inevitability of completing the game of Jumanji once you have moved your first move in it!

And the body faces the fear.

The personal unconscious fears since birth accumulated till date!

Also the fear of the collective unconscious of the whole humanity accumulated since even before the mutation started the evolution!

And when body faces them, brain sees clear since the mind has gone into the oblivion.

Brain is not scared of the pain going to be inflicted at a future moment.

Brain lives the present and plans the future on the spur of the moment, not as an anxious thought but as a skillful game right now and here.

Brain has no time to fear. It is every moment busy, only if the mind does not enter its arena to render it ineffective.

Right now in our virtual reality experience, we have managed to take leave of our irrational mind for the time being; and so the brain is free to see what the body is doing in order to face the fear that has been there with it since times immemorial.

It is a do or die situation.

Either body succumbs to fear, or succumbs fear to reality - characterized by the brain going free of the clutches of the mind and the body going free of its own rigidities responsible for all the chronic illnesses that it had contracted since long!

We can design our virtual reality in a way that the first possibility is just turned zero.

Then it remains only a question of the duration of time required to effect a permanent change in the geometry of the body musculature, that takes it beyond a threshold; which once it crosses, it never comes back to its old habitual pattern of muscular geometry.

The permanent change thus gets effected for good!