Living in a Simulated Realtiy

It is more likely than not that we are living in a simulated world, a virtual universe. Yet each of us has the power to interact with this universe in ways that may have heretofore seemed mysterious, reserved only for monks and shamans living mystical lifestyles. But we really don't need to live a monastic llfe in a cave or ashram half way around the world and leave behind everything familiar to us to embrace this mystical world. We can demystify the experience by marrying this ancient mysticism with the best science of the modern world to give us a new view of what is really happening in our world and beyond, so that we may better direct the events of our lives and move the events of the world in a more positive fashion.

What does it mean by saying we live in a simulation? What are the implications? The simulation we live in is a localized experience apart from somewhere outside of the simulation where we are projecting our energetic body – our spirit or our soul – into this experience so that we can learn something here that we apparently can't learn from where we come from, and apparently will need for wherever we are going.

The concept that we are really not here is powerful. It means we have a deeper true identity that begins somewhere beyond our current familiar simulation. In terms of the ancient texts, that somwhere is what was called “heaven”. When we leave our simulation at the end of it all, we shift our consciousness and go back to where it is that we came from – back to the other side of the veil – to heaven. The ancients tell us that once we get to that other side we can look back and review everything that we've done in this simulated world and hopefully laugh at some of the mistakes that we made while trying to learn about ourselves in this simulation. Heaven is the ancient word for the world that we live in that exists outside the simulation we temporarily find ourselves in now.

What does that mean in terms of death? Where do we go when we die? If the simulation works the way that ancients suggest, then death is merely the end of this representation of us in this limited simulation, what we may call our avatar. So when we die, this avatar no longer exists in the physical realm, but the essence that we have projected here continues outside this simulation in another form.

What is the purpose of the simulation? It is to learn a new way of being in a realm that is relatively safe because we need that experience in another place. When we are outside our simulation we are individually and collectively in an environment where our sole purpose is to learn new ways of being. In this life simulation we are learning the things we are learning for the benefit of our existence beyond this world.

So where does God fit into all of this? God is the architect, the primary designer of the simulation. Many of the mystical texts that have been deliberately deleted from the contemporary Christian canon tell us that God certainly created the universe, but that God did not create us specifically. Humans were created by others, by the proverbial “they”. But that is another story for another day!