Playing Mario 1 as a Vehicle of Enlightenment

A Player traversing levels 1-1 through 8-4 can be likened to a soul traversing a lifetime in the material realm. Thus a play through Super Mario 1 can be likened to a life lived. Super Mario 1, and all the Super Mario games as video games and in particular side scrollers allow for a parallel to our understanding of the occult, the great Not. We play Mario 1, a 2 dimensional world in a 3 dimensional reality, just as we live in a 3 dimensional reality but spiritually exist in a 4 (or more) dimensional one. The aesthetic look of the side scroller is also reminiscent of the 2-D hieroglyphics of the Egyptians and the stories engraved on Mesopotamian cylinder seals, thus this archaic looking 8 bit side scroller comes to take on an ancient quality even though it is only about 25 years old.



Mario versus Bowser or Osiris versus Typhon

Luiji chasing anOstro?