Do you feel tethered to your digital devices?
What if you could understand what’s going on with that?
Are you a seeker, a thinker, a curious person?
What if we could expose how our consciousness operates?
Are you spiritual but not religious?
What if you could go beyond the one-dimensional world of screen time?
Do you think there could be a roadmap to higher meaning?
What if we could explore the edge of our consciousness?
Could there really be an antidote to a machine culture?
Are you ready to claim your independence from the treadmill of a mechanical society?
FINDING SPIRIT IN THE DIGITAL AGE: How to Recover Meaning in a World Dominated by Technology
The premise of Finding Spirit is simple.
The onslaught of the digital world threatens our cognitive abilities and capacity to understand ourselves as spiritual beings. We are caught in the addicted treadmill of notifications and interrupts. Digital technologies are increasingly harnessing our behaviors in mechanical and machine-driven ways which will compromise our ability to define a modern spirituality for ourselves.
This is a long-term threat to our sanity and being human.
If we look to the Church as the traditional guardian of the Divine, we see it in a secular long-term decline with decreasing attendance and eroding adoption. Existing pulpits, especially among Christian religions are losing the relevance game as carriers of spiritual meaning and are no longer appealing destinations for the young and those of us who are searching. Despite this, the Spiritual but not Religious are growing amongst us.
Confronted with the epistemic fragmentation that is occurring in our minds today, it behooves us to develop a modern view on spiritual matters worthy of the Information Age and its complexity. Aligned with that intent, we can develop a new vocabulary to meaningfully describe consciousness to ourselves unlike what science has done which has been to deny it.
While a grab bag of fading New Age ideas and transformational theories exists today, these are only precursors to a new spirituality yet to gel into a coherent New Transcendentalism.
If Martin Luther called for a reformation in 1517 and Descartes called for a new method to conduct our reason in 1637, it’s time to call for innovation in how we understand our relationship to the Divine. We need to move on from the Age of Reason to an Age of Consciousness.
There is hope in this because in the belly of the information technology beast lie the keys for us to decipher our consciousness and reveal our spirituality.
Finding Spirit in the Digital Age is an invitation to come together for this important conversation: searching for a vocabulary to a New Transcendentalism – laying the groundwork for a method to approach the Divine in the Digital Age.
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