Kabbalist Responds to the Metaverse

Kabbalist Responds to the Metaverse

8 ное 2021
Mark Zuckerberg is creating a metaverse, a digital world that gives rise to a sense of physical presence in a virtual space. Users will be able to grasp this digital world through touch. Development of a thin, robot skinsuit is already underway, creating an effect of physical interaction with virtual reality, allowing one to see and touch objects. Movement and interplay will be possible regardless of physical distances. Students will have the capability of teleporting to other countries, going back in time to historical events, writing with the power of thought and so forth. This world will host a billion users. I wouldn’t want to live in such a universe, though. I aspire to a different spiritual reality where people will be capable of moving not due to having a particularly sensitive skinsuit, but first we need to clarify some criteria, such as, “What is happiness?” “What is the purpose of life?” and “What should we accomplish while alive in this world?” Then, we can start building the universe. We would then feel better living in such a universe compared to the current world around us. If the point of this envisioned virtual reality is to feel good, then it is no more than a drug, i.e. an escape through the creation of all sorts of illusions. The spiritual reality, however, is one where we can rise to the level of the upper force of love, bestowal and connection. Rising to the level of the upper force is something that we each need to build within ourselves. It cannot be created using physical, mechanical, technical or digital means. It requires determining what causes a person to enter and exit the spiritual reality. We have to acquire a desire to attain the spiritual world and to ask the upper force for this desire if it is absent. It is also important to remember that there is no coercion in spirituality; nobody can be manipulated to enter the spiritual world.