Christopher Hauke: ‘The Screen and the Soul. Virtual reality, Real reality and How It Is.’ - Jungian Analyst & Author

Is online working less ‘real' than meeting in person? 

Or is our experience of reality actually more ‘virtual' than we think?"

The Covid pandemic has required us to keep a broader social distance from one another. For psychotherapists this should be less of a problem. With reliable broadband making therapy sessions possible online, why do so many people still find that virtual session fall so far short of the “real” meeting in person? Maybe our assumption that there is a “real” version and there is an inferior “virtual” version is wrong to begin with. I would like to lay out three approaches to this question.

The first derives from quantum theorist David Deutsch and his book The Fabric of Reality (Deutsch, 1997). The second approach digs further into philosophical implications around the idea that material reality is not an objective fact and consciousness is all there is. This is known…