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VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Video Game Play and Meditation, Spirituality and Dreams?

Contributed by: 
Jayne Gackenbach
Episode Date: 
Monday, May 9, 2011

This time Jayne reviews her own research into the effects of gaming on nighttime dreams as well as her thesis that gaming can be framed as a type of meditative experience. She then interviews Moses Silbiger, a gamer and integral coach and consultant, whose master’s thesis topic explored spirituality and gaming from Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology perspective.