“The divine expresses itself in the digital terrain through the vast global computer networks that are now beginning to display rudimentary self-organizing properties. If we can allow ourselves to understand the deeper, sacred mechanisms of cyberspace we can begin to experience it as a medium for grace.” Jennifer Cobbs, Cybergrace

Meditation for Avatars was created in order to introduce positive spiritual energy into cyberspace by natural means – by connecting up as members of a community the elements of this realm (the networked computers).

Viewed in sociological terms, a computer network is simply a number of machines interconnected by cables; it is the users that make it a community. In the minds of the users, however, the Internet (a number of interconnected machines) appears to be much more than the sum of its parts. Although it possesses no life of its own, it is still a field of mental activity.

Communal Meditation

The computers networked by Meditation for Avatars practice Japa Meditation. Practitioners of all religions give accounts of the energy released in the course of communal meditation. The quality of this experience is dependent on the proficiency of those who meditate and the size of the group. The more members engaged in simultaneous meditation, the greater the power emanating from the community.

What this means in terms of our experiment, is that the greater the number of computers online, the more powerful the energy within the network. This energy can positively influence everything connected with it – the individual computers, the community network, and the Internet.

Self-Intensifying Process

This energy can also be received by the users: Meditation for Avatars can motivate them to use the Internet and their computers positively, to improve and cultivate their communication via computer, to structure their daily routines and develop more clarity and concentration for their work at the computer. The result is that users need to spend increasingly less time at the computer, meaning their computers have still more time to meditate. In other words, the process is self-intensifying.