Article April 3, 2017 Issue

Virtual reality or God’s reality?

Blythe Evans

The woman took the goggles, attached her mobile phone to the front of them, strapped them on, and then proceeded to have some sort of amazing experience. Next, a man did it. They laughed, whooped, cringed, called out, and waved their arms around. One can only imagine what they were encountering. Presently each person removed the goggles and returned to reality. Each one attested to how real the “virtual reality” experience had seemed.

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As I have considered this scenario, I’ve reflected on the fact that the people eventually took off the goggles because they knew that they could take them off, that they could extricate themselves from that very real-seeming, but totally unreal, state of being. They perceived that the experience was based on images being presented to them by their material senses. But no matter what appeared to be going on, they knew it was not actual reality. This awareness enabled them to ultimately remove the goggles projecting the false reality and find that their real lives remained normal and intact.

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