I feel like we are all headed off a cliff.

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

T.S Eliot couldn't have been more right.  Over the past few month I have been spending more time on social networking sites. Perhaps because I work from home and have quite a bit of time on my hands or it is to my advantage to know the space on which my businesses will live or die. In either case I have tried my darnedest to breath it in, familiarize myself with its intricacies and ultimately fasten it to my lonely work belt.


In addition I have always been fascinated by ancient knowledge. Sometimes I think that the human species has gone through a variety of transformations and at each new iteration the past is lost, never to be remembered. There is wisdom that exists in this world. Wisdom we seem to no longer need? Like how to navigate by stars, how to know what weather is coming, how to plant crops and make beer. As a result I took a keen interest in ancient eastern philosophies in my undergrad years. Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Confucianism and any other form of ancient mysticism I could get my hands on. I believe I was drawn to it because these philosophies truly set out to understand life's ancient questions. Questions like who are we, what are we doing here? Questions that you would think would have been answered by now but, alas it is not about quantity of interaction but the quality of interaction that reveals insight.


Sometimes I just want to leave my technological modern life and take my family to Tibet to learn how to slow my heart rate down to 5 bpm while sitting outside naked in 5 feet of ice and snow. Or learn how to master the mind through meditation. There is ancient knowledge that is being lost by the minute...and it really makes me sad. I feel like we are all chasing illusions, illusions that will never make us happy, and that makes me sad too. So it begs the question, what is real?




I cant escape the feeling that  our focus on the illusions of reality or manufactured reality is something terribly wrong. That the speed at which we are distancing ourselves from truth will only be in direct proportion to the speed and magnitude of our 'realignment'. I have never lived during another time so I cannot speak intelligently on what they felt as a society and to be honest I never really looked it up but I would be hard pressed to say that they felt as I do now.


man this blog is turning out to be pretty gloomy...