Eat Real Food

Flowery and poetic descriptions of spiritual insight are harmful in lurid and over-mediated times like these. How about:

“Enlightenment is how you feel when your phone dies.”

You say you feel an immediate and overwhelming urge to charge your phone from the first available outlet?

How sad and true.

Why is it that people imagine the special effects in religious media are of some different nature than the ones in secular media?

Of course that includes social media. Dazzling effects compel attention. Attention is the currency of media. It’s also the seat of consciousness. What else could you expect of the 10,000 things?

As far as attention is concerned, media — stories and their imaginal effects — are like refined sugar. All stories.

Eat real food.

Life itself is so lurid now. So much to take in. I wonder whether now media have the opposite effect from the one originally intended. Rather than stir the imagination to bigger and bolder places, now media flatten and smooth the world, so we don’t go insane.

Or maybe that was it all along.

Little bit of both, maybe. Doesn’t matter. A little bit of fine tuning is good. A little diversion is understandable in an unending shitstorm like this. It’s BELIEVING what one sees on screen that gets one into trouble.

This includes anything anyone ever tells you about what happened to them and what might happen to you. Let alone what IS happening to you.

There is a cosmic void a hundred billion light years across between someone who shows you how to see what’s happening to you and someone who tells you what’s happening to you.

Which of those would you call “teaching”?