Playing video games and being engrossed in social media impacts us negatively at a physical, mental and spiritual levels !

Mumbai – Video games and social media like Facebook are here to stay and they consume a lot of our time. It is common knowledge that they also have a massive impact on our lives. Is mankind gaining from spending so much of time on it? Apart from effects at a physical and psychological level, research has shown it has spiritually negative effects, explained Dr. Jyoti Kale of the Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay. She elaborated on the above in the course of her presentation of the research paper titled ‘Subtle-effects of playing video games and being engrossed in social media’. The research paper, authored by H.H. Dr Jayant Athavale, Dr. Jyoti Kale and Mr Sean Clarke was presented at the International conference on Globalisation, Literature and Culture. This conference was organised by the Higher Education and Research Society, Mumbai. It was held on the 7th and 8th of September, 2018 at Dnyansagar Institute of Management & Research, Baner-Balewadi, Pune.

     Dr. Kale explained the pilot study conducted about the subtle-effects of video games and social media using aura and energy scanners and the advanced sixth sense of seekers in the research team. An instrument known as the Universal Thermo Scanner, which is an instrument developed by Dr Mannem Murthy (a former nuclear scientist), was used for this purpose. It measures the type of subtle-energy (whether positive or negative) and the aura around any object (living or non-living).

     In the first experiment, five subjects residing at the research centre were asked to play a first-person shooter video game forjust an hour and they were measured using the UTS before and after. In all 5 cases, either the negativity in the subjects increased significantly or their positivity was eroded completely. 2 of the players who did not have a negative aura actually developed one.The negative subtle-energy of a subject who was suffering from negative energy distress increased by 72%.

       In a separate experiment, 5 different subjects who were also residing at the research centre were asked to view their normal social media feed for an hour and they were measured before and after with a UTS. Here too a negative subtle-effect was observed just from viewing their Facebook and Instagram feed which was in the range of 15-30% increase in negativity of their auras.

     Now interestingly we also asked two of the subjects to just view the social media feed of the Spiritual Science Research Foundation, which presents the spiritual research and spiritual practice propounded by Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay, for just half an hour and it had just the opposite kind of effect which was that negativity reduced and positivity increased. It also showed that the type of content that a person watches on their social media feed is an important criterion in assessing the impact of social media.

     Social media and video games is like any other form of entertainment – but how we use it and what we view on it will define whether it has a positive or negative impact. Unfortunately, the vast majority of video games and social media feeds emit negative vibrations. Indian culture is based around increasing spiritual positivity and actually is an example for the world to follow. But this is an example out of many of how Indian culture is being degraded by the globalisation of spiritually impure trends. Our time on Earth is precious and from a spiritual perspective it is given to us as an opportunity to grow spiritually. If we were more mindful of the content we watched and what we let our kids watch, instead of it being detrimental, it could in fact help us to grow in both worldly life as well as spiritually.

      Maharshi Adhyatma Vishwavidyalay has been founded by His Holiness Dr Athavale on the base of His 37 years of spiritual research. It specialises in conducting research into how the spiritual dimension & spiritual vibrations affect our lives.