We’ve started mistaking complexity for intelligence.

We’re outsourcing experience and calling it progress.

I just asked Alexa to play a song I like and it replied that it would shuffle this song and ‘others like it’. I simply wanted that song.

My phone now autocorrects ordinary words into strange ones I’d never naturally use (anyone else?) 

My car is mechanically solid, but I regularly have computer software issues unrelated to actually driving it.

And now, there are apparently AI versions of deceased loved ones being created so we can continue “talking” to them after death.

Something feels off here! I’m not suggesting technology is bad by any means, but we seem to be drifting away from direct experience and calling it progress.

We’re adding layers to life that often complicate what was once simple and human. We’re outsourcing memory, navigation and communication and probably more.

Politically and culturally, many people now form opinions from headlines, clips, algorithms and an emotional ‘gist’ rather than deeper, felt understanding.

We’re informed constantly, but often we’re not slowing down and considering things more deeply ourselves.

This is why my work points people back to the present moment. Presence isn’t a spiritual practice, or a wellness trend to me - reality is just always simpler and more alive than the version created by a busy and distracted (or outsourced) mind. 

The more mentally stretched we become across timelines, predictions, narratives and noise, the harder it becomes to access perspective, clarity and our own inner intelligence.

The Point is about returning to direct contact with life again, to what is actually here.

Beneath the noise, human beings already possess the capacity for insight, resilience, creativity and connection - when we’re present enough to access it. 

That’s the Point!🔻