@jesuits_ireland Interspiritual directorship with regard to cyberspace is by no means a new development, of course. For example, Michael Heim, author of 1993's 'The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality', and a teacher of Daoist body arts, addressed the place of supporting practices as early as 1995.
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Excerpt from Michael Heim's 'Nerd in the Noosphere': Every individual must train to harmonize mind with body. Conscious attention must return to autonomic systems like breathing, balance, and proprioception. To train, the Eastern sages built Yoga, Tai Chi, and the martial arts. How shall we juggle on-line worlds? We need not choose between beaming ourselves up to the noosphere or rejecting virtual communities as decadent. We can acknowledge that we inhabit more than one possible world at a time, that life is multi-tasking. We can learn to overlap worlds. The worlds of the primary body and the cyberbody need to reinforce one another. Disconnecting them endangers our roots. Our virtual communities thrive only if we regularly touch down to our primal source. Our primary bodies only return to us as we use virtual worlds to re-train ourselves.
@ewahlwriting I hope not. Truly, you're a treasure here. You bring a beautiful turn of expression, a generous-heart, and no small measure of uplift to this neck of the woods. Have you considered, say, a small shift in approach? Me, 30 years in cyberspace. An old post, but an idea or two...
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