Yes, we are distracted from distraction by distraction and this detracts from our perceptual capabilities. We need to cultivate depth of consciousness having come to a point of such informational overload. The way to do this is to stop the habitual abstraction we’ve fallen into and simply look at what is in front of and all around us at any and all moments…until we actually just see it…itself. Don’t think about it, just look a little closer at something. A door isn’t a word its a zillion little details you’ve missed even though they’ve always been there unperceived for the last 20 years. Pretty soon you’ll see that there’s space within that doorway…and space throughout the room you’re occupying, space that amazingly is almost palpable and all of a sudden you see things like you used to see them as a 1 year old, not as a word/abstraction, but as an experience, a direct experience. Its a participative experience of self and the little piece of the cosmos around you. Its nowness, newness, continualness of nowness and newness, an integratively graceful and fully experiencial state of flow. This is why zen buddhist monks gaze at walls. They’re looking in order to unify with the cosmos…instead of constantly figure, figure, figuring about it like we’ve been increasingly acculturated to be and do since The “Enlightenment”.

Don’t get me wrong, science/the scientific method itself is not the problem. Rather its a monopoly paradigm of Science ONLY. As I like to say “Science is wonderful, necessary and delicious…and it exists entirely within the digestive tract of Wisdom.” Wisdom is the unitary state of thirdness resulting from the thorough integration of seeming unresolvable opposites IOW a trinitarian resolution of a problem/duality. Its what I call The Cosmic Code. And this is what Nick and Exo are pointing at.