For a long time I've wondered how and why it is that if someone is reading a book or writing in a room with me, I still feel very connected to them. They feel very approachable. However, if they are on a device I feel the opposite.
"...the people who create these things know they how to get you more addicted, they do know that. So these devices are quite dangerous. They could be used in a helpful way, and in a conscious way, but they are dangerous. So you need to not allow to let your consciousness to be dragged into these devices."
Eckhart Tolle
Yes that is how it feels that someone's consciousness is dragged into the device. If someone is reading a book, even if they are absorbed in the story completely, I still feel their consciousness in their body.
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The following quotes don't seem like gratitudes, in fact the next one frightens me immensely, but I understand it on some level too.
"We're living in very challenging times, and this is almost certainly only the beginning, and it's inseparable from the emergence of the new consciousness...the origin to most of them [the challenges] is to be found in the human mind."
Eckhart Tolle
Yet another reason to not put one's hope/life in the future. Between climate change and human dysfunction it's hard to imagine much stability.
"The greatest danger for humanity, also pointed out for example by Carl Jung the psychologist, is collective psychosis. Collective psychosis that produces absurd conflicts in the world...what's a psychosis? Certain thoughts have taken possession of your mind and you don't even know it because there is not sufficient awareness to have immunity against toxic and irrational thoughts...it's like a virus infection on a mental level."
Eckhart Tolle
