Monday, July 22, 2002
Of Games and Meaning
There are finally enough pages of my stuff on the DeepFUN website that I can dip into it almost anywhere and get surprised.
Today, I found my article on "Near Myths" (get it? like near miss? o, the cleverness!) and I was, again, surprised by how clearly it states a core concept of DeepFUN Mediation.
Please forgive the self-referentialness of it all:
"I have learned to see games as social fantasies. They are, to me, recurrent dreams in which certain themes are being toyed with - investigated and manipulated for the sake of some future reintegration into a world view. They are reconstructions of relationships - simulations - (myths) - which are guided by individual players, instituted by the groups in which they are played or abstracted by the traditions of generations of children."
So, when we are in a state of DeepFUN meditations, games function as total immersions into the wisdom of the collective conscious. And the meditation and conversation surrounding the game reveal the wisdom of the game, and of us.
Today, I found my article on "Near Myths" (get it? like near miss? o, the cleverness!) and I was, again, surprised by how clearly it states a core concept of DeepFUN Mediation.
Please forgive the self-referentialness of it all:
"I have learned to see games as social fantasies. They are, to me, recurrent dreams in which certain themes are being toyed with - investigated and manipulated for the sake of some future reintegration into a world view. They are reconstructions of relationships - simulations - (myths) - which are guided by individual players, instituted by the groups in which they are played or abstracted by the traditions of generations of children."
So, when we are in a state of DeepFUN meditations, games function as total immersions into the wisdom of the collective conscious. And the meditation and conversation surrounding the game reveal the wisdom of the game, and of us.
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