Good Monday Morning!

Experience who you are with. I know in today’s world the trend is to insulate ourselves with technology from the effects of the nuances from physical experience. As a result an entire important range of human interaction is being denied. The subtle influence from exchange in the same space, whether from the Olfactory reinforcement of memory, exchange of recognition Atoms, or full body experience of another’s presence is being slowly reduced. Is it any wonder a violent response is manifesting? Is it an unconscious cry for help because deprived of an important and essential input needed for rational thought and basic survival?  

Have we reduced our life experience. Instead of a three dimensional experience, life has been reduced to two dimensions. Through technology we have breadth and height, but are missing depth. Does this limit to our perception and contribute to shallow social interactions? Even if the device displays a three dimensional image, it is a two dimensional illusion. And, the lips rarely move in sync with the image so another input, visual and sound, is out of  whack.

This may sound as if I’m raging against the machine, but what I’m really doing is setting the ground work for a shift in attitude. Our attitude toward a thing dictates how we act within the scope of experience we allow that thing to have in our life.

We’ve all heard the stories about Guru’s on a hilltop. They isolate themselves from everyone and everything in order to find God? Wisdom? Peace? I think what they are really doing is finding a way to experience themselves. When no one else is around to experience, the only person we can experience is ourselves. What if we could take this attitude and project it into our own experience, at least in part. Since machines are isolating us, limiting our personal experience with others, our only option is to experience a part of ourselves so our experience of life and people is complete. When we experience ourselves we recognize and see ourselves in our experience of others, our own reflection in their experience of us. Becoming more aware of our own experience can fill the hole left by technological self-isolation, just as Guru’s are filled with their own experience of their experience.

When you can experience yourself in the first and third person, be the experience and the experiencer, the participant and the narrator, will you then see through the mirror darkly?

Have a wonderful week.

Sincerely;

Steven Johnson