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Growing Up: To Withstand the Flood, part 3

In my previous blog, I introduced the “Flood”—the overwhelming distractions, disconnection, and dissatisfaction of our time. Shaped by mechanistic and digital worldviews, this “Flood”—creating a crisis of meaning—conditions us to prioritize consumption, transactions, and speed over depth, connection, and purpose.

Addressing this crisis of meaning requires more than surface solutions; it demands cultivating inner wisdom. In response to this Flood, and to cultivate inner wisdom, I suggest four domains: “Waking Up,” “Growing Up,” “Cleaning Up,” and “Showing Up.”

In part two, I explored Waking Up, an essential first step in cultivating inner wisdom. It helps DOWNLOAD PDF

Creating Space to Access Wisdom Daily

As first defined by William Davies of LRB, the term reaction economy best fits the lives we all navigate. To quote Davies, “Each of us becomes a junction box in a vast, complex network, receiving, processing, and emitting information in a semiautomatic fashion, and in real-time.”

Reactive Spaces

Davies focused on reactions such as facial expressions, gestures, or emojis, which have become an influential currency of the digital public sphere. Nonetheless, his term describes a reactiveness that has splintered our attention and fragmented our awareness.

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