Is Minecraft a spiritual experience? Yes. In the sense that everything is a spiritual experience, because spirituality is not in any THING. It’s underneath it, or all around it, or on a whole different dimension altogether.
Spirituality is in the learning. It’s in the opportunities to look at our selves: (emotions->beliefs->perspectives ->ways of being) that get brought up through the catalyst of experience. The contents of the experience are secondary.
My kids don’t need to do yoga or meditate in order to get in touch with their spirituality.(Although I think these things are awesome). It’s just that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to separate from their spirituality to begin with. Wherever they go it is with them. So there is no need to overcompensate.
I trust that the most “spiritual” thing they can do is WHATEVER THEY ARE INSPIRED TO DO. Because the inspiration is how they are guided to the juiciest learning that is available to them. That’s the only REAL reason we are drawn to anything to begin with; because that experience will offer us learning.
They are having a spiritual experience when they feel the joy of creating their own world within a computer game. They are having a spiritual experience when they feel the frustration of not having something go their way while playing Roblox. They are having a spiritual experience when they feel the disappointment of one of their friends disagreeing with them in conversation, or the satisfaction of working as a team to complete a new level of a video game. All of these are entryways into understanding ourselves.
And the biggest takeaway I want them to have is that they can trust their joy. It will lead them where they need to go. So whether my kids want to play Minecraft or ride their bike, try yoga with me in the living room or have a dance party to their favorite pop song, ask questions about my meditation practice, or bounce around the house until their heart is content, I’m fucking excited for them. Because I know that’s where their learning is.
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