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iPhone, Therefore I Am?
On being unexpectedly humbled at one of Prem Rawat’s events
One of the curious things about the effort to become a fully conscious human being is the palpable gap between theory and practice.
On one hand, practitioners of “self-realization” usually maintain an image of themselves as centered, focused, and intelligent people.
On the other hand (the one with the hangnail), those same people realize that above and beyond their well-crafted personas they are much closer to being a fool than a sage. Or maybe it’s only me I’m talking about.
Here’s what I mean:
At one of Prem Rawat’s five-day retreats in Australia a few years ago, I was having a leisurely lunch with a friend, neither of us with a care in the world.
If this was Monopoly, we had both just landed on Free Parking.
When It was time for Mark to return to the gift store where he was helping out, I decided to linger a few minutes before trekking back to my tent, not wanting to rush things.
Three minutes into my walk, I noticed that I didn’t have my iPhone, so I turned…
