Psychospiritual Benefits of Video Games

 

Psychospiritual potential in video-games- In the way that games feature various world mythologies whether in the narrative or as the actual characters on engages with, already lay the archetypes necessary for humans to interact with in a Hero's Journey or some other archetypal journey a game can be compared with. There are certain games which break a 4th wall otherwise kept sealed and immaculately out of vision of the person having the experience. Even a meat head like Duke Nuke Em manages this sobering perspective with all it's otherwise crude and mindless goofyness. While VR offers meditation experiences and yoga the likes of which have won multiple awards. Current Scholarly papers focus entirely on the deeper significance that can be found and studied in these video game experiences.

If we must be dark about the future:
Let's say something happens in our world we have no control over (we suddenly have to stay inside for months) virtual reality truly has the potential to allow us moments of experiences we love for or find therapeutic in times when the real world equivalent is simply not possible at the time. Also a next level learning tool in any dangerous job or one where training of a more real world nature may be quite expensive. In a future where people are getting by with less and less in times of scarcity in the aftermath of tragic natural disasters of governments gone rogue, this escape may be more and more valuable , for the lonely, sick, and elderly, perhaps indispensable, perhaps in fact incalculable.


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