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your brain on technology

I think I am through testing for a while.  I have been busy trying to learn to use all these new ways of communicating with the world.  Not all of what I am learning is useful.

I am amazed about how differently various ways of learning affect my brain.  When I am working with the computer, the web, the blog, the iPad, I am focused on a 2-dimensional screen and my brain is in problem-solving mode - how do I access this?  why isn't this working - it worked the last time?

When I read an eBook, I get the content but it doesn't feel the same as when I read a three-dimensional book, one I can hold and caress and talk to in the margins with my pencil if I want to.  I can read reflectively, think poetically while I read, make all kinds of connections that are not possible when I am focused on a screen.  It has something to do with my eyes, and their connection to my brain.  When my eyes can roam around in three-dimensions, scan more than one page at once, my brain feels different than it does in the e-world (Kellen would understand what I mean).  It feels better, freer, broader, richer.  My moving eyes settle my brain, give it color. 

Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he offered us new eyes to see.

Maybe this is part of the story of his Transfiguration in the lectionary this week.

Maybe it is our transfiguration that is at stake.

I will not always write on this blog, but I am preparing to use it some this summer....we'll see how I feel about that once summer arrives.

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