What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space. Interruption-free space is sacred. Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. When walking from one place to another, we have our devices streaming data from dozens of sources.
Even at our bedside, we now have our iPads with heaps of digital apps and the world’s information at our fingertips. There has been much discussion about the value of the “creative pause” – a state described as “the shift from being fully engaged in a creative activity to being passively engaged, or the shift to being disengaged altogether.” However, despite the incredible power and potential of sacred spaces, they are quickly becoming extinct. Why do we crave distraction over downtime? Why do we give up our sacred space so easily? We are depriving ourselves of every opportunity for disconnection. 1. 2. 3. 4. Home - emergentuniverse.org. Some Profound Metaphysical Questions to Ask Yourself. What is this experiential process that is happening right now? What is experience? What is this individual stream of experience? What am I? Why do I experience things right now and only remember past experiences? What do the contents-of-experience (phenomena) represent?
What is that persistent complex phenomenon that closely accompanies my stream of experience? What is that ever changing dance of phenomena that appears to surround me? What is the relationship between an individual stream of experience and the phenomena that arise within it? Do some phenomena correspond to systems that are as real as I seem to be? Are all systems accompanied by a stream of experience of some kind? Do other systems have their own perspective and experience a phenomenal world? Do all systems experience the same voracity of experience as myself? Do the experiences of one system effect another? What is the relationship between the phenomenal world and the objective universe? Closely Related Articles: Seth Godin: This is broken. Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world. John Maeda on the simple life.