Abstract:

This article is not intended to be an exhaustive research, in the academic meaning of research but, as we state in the title as such, it is rather a topic of reflection that brings into focus the spiritual dimension associated with users of information technologies. This is why our statements do not have an absolute character and they cannot always be supported by well-known bibliographic sources. Our life is becoming increasingly digitalised. Most persons have experienced this process by virtue of their jobs. Internet devotees have fallen ill with professional diseases caused by the excessive use of computers. Some persons refuse to live in the every-day and prefer to live in the virtual space. The best example in this respect is Second Life because probably, in the subconscious, we all wish to live a second life so as to fulfill our frustrated dreams or so as to accomplish all that we could not due to constraints in our first existence. So far, there have been no clear proofs for incarnation, therefore we need to be satisfied with a single life. The 1,377,809 active residents who "live" in Second Life (SL), a virtual world that is parallel to the one in which we live physically, would answer by a clear negation. We are not concerned here with an SF film scenario, nor with an estimation of the future, but with the present that is unfolding right under our eyes, because at present, a million persons live a second life as well.