Feeling like an island unto myself, it’s more and more difficult to establish genuine connection as we race through the digital world of devices and split attention spans – is it me or is it the times?

I look out through this vast digital universe accessible from my fingertips and wonder what is being given birth to as we hurl ever so faster into this conveyor-belt world ruled by technology and the media.

The uncomfortable thing about my experience is that I am watching this as both a spectator but also a participant almost like from outside and from inside. It’s weird because I’m all for technology and media but I feel that the proportions in our lives are way out of whack and while I can’t quite put my finger on what exactly is going on, I certainly think there are impacts brewing of which we are not distinctly aware of.

Don’t you feel like something is missing from your experience in the twenty first century? Could it be the voice of a generation clamoring for a change?  The voice of our time?

We are all looking for authenticity and at bottom I think that this is a spiritual longing.  Calls for change are an echo from within that we still feel as a cry edging us to rediscover our source. I say the malaise of the modern world is a call for us to re-imagine our core, a plea for re-awakening our spiritual imagination.

Our broken external politics which are casting an anxious and uncertain future may be just the symptom confronting us that we are broken inside. If you add to this a digital-mechanical world emerging everywhere which reinforces cold-hearted empty experiences and produces mindsets with split attentions fragmented into broken moments, no wonder we feel unmoored.

Could it be that we are at risk of losing our humanity, of having our identity stripped away from us? How do we regain our footing through this uncertain future bound to accelerating change?

I feel like a wounded soul – how do we get free?  We have lotions for split hairs, is there a potion for split souls?

Please stay tuned. 

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