What I’m Learning from Leading Death Meditations in VR
I thought the only people crazy enough to try meditating in VR would be other long-time meditators like me who just wanted see what it’s like.
I was wrong.
I think around half the participants in the group meditations I’ve been leading in EvolVR on the AltspaceVR platform are first-timers or close to it. They weren’t seeking out meditation-in-VR. They were in VR looking for stuff to do. They’d heard about meditation and figured why not?
It makes sense but I wouldn’t have guessed it.
In one session a young woman said she wanted to meditate in a group but didn’t feel safe closing her eyes in a room full of strangers. In VR she had it both ways — safe at home and also having a social experience. I wouldn’t have thought of that one either.
That’s one thing I’ve learned:
My assumptions about who is doing what in VR and why are probably wrong
Assume that.
Several months ago I decided to try leading a more focused and intentional group meditation. I decided to use aspects of mortality as objects of meditation.
I thought about an overall program, Meditations on Mortality.
