The Dreamlike Nature of Existence

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I can imagine, on the computer screen, just playing with it, that actually, you have a pressenium arch, and it looks like a theatre. The channel is providing us, you know, romantic love or something like that. Andother image that's used lhot is the dreamlike nature of existence. We don't get to have a new life that we explore yet, and we don't even know what it would look like. There's something about that tat it's also very enfantalizing and protecting. You know, like little kids.

When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.