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My Real Second Life
IndigoQueen Zamani (SL) hosts her talk show at Indigo Room Studio inside Second Life
October 18, 2007 was day that would change my view of virtual online worlds forever.
For this is the day I was prodded by my youngest son to join the virtual 3D online world in
Second Life. He said, “Mom come on it will be fun and we will be able to hang out
together.” He lives in Pennsylvania and I in New York City. I did not quite get his meaning.
“Hang out together? Playing a Virtual Reality Game?” I asked.
Being the host of an online talk show, running three myspace pages, two websites, two
blogs, booking guests for the show, promoting it, and doing all of the technical stuff for it
as well, just did not make any kind of sense to join another thing that would occupy my
time. I was already spread too thin as it was. Though I enjoy video games I just did not
have time, and I also did not want to become addicted to playing a game when I had
so much on my plate already. That was my thinking. However, he ’got’ me by
mentioning that I could promote my radio show in this virtual space, which intrigued me.
Since it was free to join, I decided to have a look at what all the fuss was about.
Second Life blew me away! I realized that Second Life was not a game at all. Not only
were there no rules or predetermined outcomes, as with other virtual worlds, there were
unlimited opportunities for me to be, do, have and create what ever I wanted to and at
relatively little cost to boot. I was hooked! But not in the way that I thought I would be,
no sir! It was because I realized almost immediately the huge spiritual potential of this
online world to be able to reach out to people in ways I had never imagined before.
Why was this so delicious to me? Let me explain.
In my first life, my name is Sydney Chase and I host my own online Spiritual talk show called
The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality. On my show we discuss all things spiritual and by
that I mean that everything we experience can be considered a spiritual event. My
opening motto for the show whether we chooses to believe it or not is that “we are all
non-physical beings having human experiences”.
My conscious spiritual journey began many years ago but it all started to come together l
ike a jigsaw puzzle in 2005 when I first learned of an ethereal spiritual teacher named Abraham,
a collective group of nonphysical beings who communicated their message to the world channeled
through a woman called Esther Hicks. After reading their book Ask and It is Given (www.abraham-hicks.com)
the journey I had been making and, my experiences all began to really make sense. From that moment on,
life started to become incredible. I started to enjoy my experiences even the ones that I did not like.
Esther and Jerry Hicks based their book on the belief that you only have to ask for
something and it will be given, whether you realize this consciously or not. This they have
named The Law of Attraction. The book outlines 22 processes that when applied
deliberately will assist you in releasing resistance to manifesting and or creating the things
you want to attract in your life. Although I had already experienced the results of these
Laws in my own life without consciously knowing what or how it was working, I now had
an explanation of how I was able to manifest things I had previously asked for
unconsciously. Knowing this, I was able to deliberately use the processes to manifest
things I wanted in my life. One of the processes I had been using quite a bit was the very
apt ’Virtual Reality Process’. They encourage you to create a virtual reality (vividly
imagine) of something you want in your life that you believe FEELS GOOD and allowing
yourself to experience this ’make believe’ reality without holding any beliefs that you
could not have what you desired.
Abraham describes this Art of Allowing process in great detail and is something I love to
play with in my mind as it makes me feel good and has the effect of lowering my resistance
to believing I can have what I want to do, be or have. But, yes there is a but….teeehee I am v
ery hard-headed and never the less had loads of resistance going on with me. So I find it helps to do
the processes regularly.
Second Life makes it easy for me to ’practice’ the Virtual Reality process on a level never
before available to me. According to the Law of Attraction, asking for what we want
has to be charged with vibrational energies that will draw what we want into our lives.
Simply put, you have to take the emotional journey first and ’feel it real’. When you feel
something real you live something as if you are already experiencing having the thing
you want. In essence, The Law of Attraction states that ’you attract more of what you
focus on in accordance with the emotional vibration you offer up to universe. Specific
thoughts will generate a quality of vibration that is equal to its energetic vibration to
which the Universe will responds every single time, even when you are not aware of how
the Laws of attraction work. But thoughts themselves alone do not create, emotions themselves
alone do not create but it is the combination of the two that equals ourvibrational offering and
which drives our creation engine.
Without re-writing the book here; it’s main message is that your life is supposed to be fun,
delicious and filled with joy. In knowing this, your task is to deliberately decide to make
choices based on what you believe will bring you these wonderful experiences and ask
for them to be present in your life through the art of allowing; that is all. Many and varied
techniques have been utilized in the fields of personal development in order to,
knowingly or not, assist people in creating this state of allowing. Such processes including
visualizations, positive affirmations and even symbolic action have been used either in
isolation or combined methods. But to me, Second Life is the ultimate manifestation tool
that elegantly and deliciously rolls all these techniques into one joyously creative and fun
process in a world where its whole ethos is focused on helping its residents create a
virtual ’reality’ experience.
In Second Life I get to live my dreams both literally and virtually right in front of my real life
and virtual face in fully blown, 3D color graphics in stereo sound. I get to meet fellow
Avatars (digital characters) from all corners of the real life world who are also in the
process of creating their virtual reality dreams as well. But the coolest thing about living
in a virtual reality world is that I get to interact with my dreams in real time allowing me to
put my dreams in to virtual ’action’immediately. As with the law of attraction, every spiritual
teacher I have ever known, including and after the time of Jesus have taught the importance
of using imagination to create your own reality.
Second Life residents (Avatars) are more than just pixels on my computer screen, they
represent living breathing people, with feelings, emotions and more importantly the
ability to make choices about who and what they become, have do or be in the virtual
world. Just as we are more than just flesh, blood and bone moving around a virtual
world we call earth, our earthly physical avatar possesses a guiding and loving force
that, if we allow it, will provide us with the inherent joyful experiences that represent our
natural state of being. In this world, as in other worlds, there is a bigger part of us not
visible to the naked eye that can be known, experienced and felt.
So the question I am minded to ask is; is this virtual reality really my second life or is it my
third? And do they not merge into one bigger life representing One huge expansion of
the All that I am? In my mind, my ’first’ life is of the non-physical aspect, the bigger part
of me that chose to reincarnate to these earthly realms of time and space in order to
experience the unfolding of life and co-create my reality through my ’physical’ being.
My ’second’ life is as Sydney Chase, who is expanding the non-physical part of me
through my physical being and my imagination here on planet earth. And now my life
as Sydney has taken on an another level of expansion through my virtual avatar known
as IndigoQueen Zamani as a resident of Second Life; Ahhh quite delicious indeed!
My born date here in this Second Life Virtual Reality the day Sydney breathed life into
IndigoQueen Zamani was much like my born date as Sydney into this world we all like to
call “Real Life”. Yet I do not remember my “Real Life” day as well ….teehee. But there are
similarities yes? I was born equal to everyone else and everyone equal to me, had to
learn how to walk, talk, eat, feed myself, etc etc. It’s the same in Second Life(SL). We all
enter on arrival as equals, having to learn how to walk, sit, move around, communicate,
and decide which second life realities we want to create. Both, my real and second
lives are equally compelling. and can be just as delicious.
As a person who loves to live by the dictum, I create my own reality, I come to Second
Life, as it was named by its creators, Linden Labs, to give flavor and color to my life as a
whole, as Sydney Chase and IndigoQueen Zamani to expand my imagination to the
possibilities. As a result, I find that my “real life” has taken on a new dimension. Things that
I wanted to be do and have are manifesting rather quickly in Second Life and in my “real
life” as well. So to my awesome amazing son I say thank you. I know now that my second
life is not a game, rather, it is truly the leading edge of expanding my Universe to more.
Personally, I cannot wait to see what I create next in my Real Second Life
Peace Love and Light
Sydney Chase - aka IndigoQueen Zamani (SL) hosts The Indigo Room: Creating Our Reality
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-33443
http://www.myspacecom/theindigoroom
http://www.theindigoroom.ning.com
http://sydneychase.wordpress.com
Some Photos from my Real Second Life
Me sitting on a Flower…: ))
Woohoo I just love my bike
It’s good to be the Queen!!
Hanging with some friends on my Merry Go Round a gift for Christmas
Dancing with a Dragon
Playing my violin another christmas gift for the friend who gave it to me…: ))) on her beautiful garden roof.
Enjoying some meditation time with a special friend…: ))
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