iBatross: A Phone Too Far?

Cell phones make me physically sick if I use one for more than about five minutes. I just really don't like their vibrations for whatever reason. I have heard other people say the same thing.

I also think the social effect of ubiquitous cell phones isn't doing us much good. Ironically, it seems to be further isolating us from each other rather than connecting us. I've never owned a cell phone, I just use a land line and keep all my numbers stored in a document file on my computer. Works for me!

Cellphones have done more than destroy people's ability to communicate face to face... it has destroyed people's ability to communicate period. I received an email from an old school mate who apparently was typing in text-lingo because half of the letters were missing and I sincerely struggled with reading the message. Add missing punctuation and plenty-o-grammatical glitches (which normally don't bother me) and you have cryptology that would stump even the brightest minds at the NSA. www.sniffcode.com

Don't blame technology for a lazy generation that can't communicate. I'm 23 years old.. I've had a cell phone since I was 12, and I can write an immaculate letter. Technology is here to assist us. Cell phones keep us in touch. Computers keep us informed and well-supplied with illegally downloaded media. iPods keep us from carrying around thousands of overpriced CDs. Sure, these things have a tremendous potential for abuse.. but they're not evil.. they're not harmful.. and they're not distracting.. unless you are easily distracted by the "pretty toys". "There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers." -Walden

Mobile devices remind us that we are willing ourselves in the proper direction. People seem to forget the nature of their consciousness...which is ok, on some level, because we planned it that way. We are a piece of divine consciousness inhabiting the most wonderful space-suit of all time. Split into duality but given the key back home. A beautiful complex of body/mind/spirit. Knowledge, Movement, Breath. Experience and expansion. We used to simply project our needs, creating a vibrational context of our own moment, coupling in resonance with other beings that chose to help or could use our help....and we drifted towards that, with belief and understanding. To Teach or to Learn. We only went because there was a call. Not a question. Now these devices represent the return of this frequency to our lives....the interconnectedness lost with the 'Fall of Babel'. We have a desire, sounding a call to fully reconnect with our piece of the universe...and yet, our understanding is impure, and what was created is a lower octave of that which is sought. Our Will to action is empty without the joy of Love. Fear predominates the day. We search for communion in the web and in these face plates that give us the web. Why not simply Call for the Other connection? The one that brings us together in essence, not patina. The Light which suffers no false dealings. The Harmonic of conformity that is not communism, but a choice mingling of the greatest force in our Universe...the true individual, full of self-expression, casting the greatest part of its Light towards the service of others and trusting that by doing so, what it needs will always return. This is the resonance and wave we need. Love Evolves Us I have a lantern. It makes its own Light. I can keep digging.

People can become obsessed with or addicted to anything. I find the paradox of cell phones interesting — in one way, they have increased communication to an unprecedented level, allowing us to know exactly what someone in doing in the moment. On the other hand, we often replace face-to-face or voice calls with a text, reducing the actual intimacy, and raising new barriers to real connection. I refrain from judgment, but find it all a very fascinating development in our evolution.

Western society's fear of death and the subsequent obsession with death technologies to overcome it are attempting to write us out of the evolutionary agenda of Mother Nature.