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hypothesis one of the draws of social media is soul memory of feeling sensorially plugged into the shifting current of the world ability to sense the shifting breeze, rustling leaves, fungal hyphae lacing soil beneath our feet & passing chemical messages from tree to tree - https://t.co/SA7goqIRbl
in indigenous cultures, “doing nothing” felt nothing like our modern “doing nothing.” there are modes of sensing & communing & listening w nature that look like “doing nothing” to western eyes - & inside feel rich, alive, a tapestry of love & presence bw all of creation.
we mostly don’t have this experience of deep attunement with *everything around*, so the internet is filling the gap. our experience of the world is sensorially-informationally-relationally flat compared to what we co-evolved with. I wanna see that sensory intimacy brought back
put another way: social media has a strong draw not because it “is addictive” but because we have a strong draw to actually be *that connected* and for whatever reason, we are mostly not https://t.co/4BCDOva8cN
dang, based on this definition of enlightenment I could expand my first tweet to also include “hypothesis: one of the main draws of ‘enlightenment’ is soul memory of feeling sensorially plugged into the shifting current of the world ability to sense the shifting breeze, rustling leaves, fungal hyphae lacing soil beneath our feet & passing chemical messages from tree to tree -“ wow I would love to see a version of nature literacy education that also creates “a mind perfectly in tune with its environment experiencing clarity and meaning at every input.” nature literacy&intimacy is how I personally got to that, and imo meditation can’t get you there because without nature-literacy you’re so far from “experiencing everything” - giant blind spots in awareness where the-shifting-nurturing-current-of-nature should be