God's Reality Over Virtual Reality: Achievement Guide Pt. 5 - Ep 20

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Welcome to the Soma SoulWorks Podcast! This podcast serves to help people, particularly those who may label themselves as "creatives," to seek wholeness and calling so they are ready to embrace the mission God has for them. Consider this podcast a rogue harmony of professional development and self-care, hosted by Chris Skaggs.

What’s covered in this episode:
This Achievement Guide series suggests a set of practices and ideals meant to shield our hearts and minds from the most common pitfalls we encounter. At its best, it is an expression of community, taken up in the belief that none of get through this world alone. We need help from one another to live the lives God meant for us. It is also embraced in humility, recognizing that we are all prone to specific lures and spiritual threats that require us to take extra care with our practices.

Instead of constantly escaping to virtual worlds and communities we recognize that the real world is the first and finest sandbox ever made. Entering, experiencing, and embracing the natural world grounds us, feeds our souls, and reminds us of the manifest wisdom of the creator of creation. We regularly unplug from all electronic devices and seek to soak in the ‘second scripture’ of the glorious planet God called good. This episode covers God’s reality over virtual reality:

• Real world versus the digital world
  • The truth about reality is that God created a certain set of rules that we have no power to change
  • In virtual reality, you can make your own rules! And even if you break them, there are usually no real-world consequences
  • Reality = the value of the journey; virtual reality = the value of the destination
  • Most virtual reality is created by someone else’s perception of their own reality and experiences
• What motivates you to use virtual reality? Do you use it as an escape from reality or do you enjoy the experience of the non-reality?
• God made this world for us to experience, what is our willingness to enter into the world that He made?
• Nature can so instantly create a positive impact on your life, so why are we so easily distracted from it?

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