COMPARING THE SENSES
Summary of The Various Modes and Intensities of Sensing
Focusing and panoraming are different perspectives, and a different experience of how life actually happens.
Panoramic sensing doesn't lead to the same mental problems and it doesn't have the same creative potential that focused sensing has.
Panoramic sensing is the awareness of everything happening here and now. It is the way animals feel safe in a world without walls, signposts, and CCTV.
Focused sensing can never be entirely here, it is always selective, it divides life into bits and then combines them together again. Focusing thinks and wants and does.
We can focus on doing something, and think about something else at the same time. The challenge with focusing is to coordinate our senses, minds, and bodies and to concentrate.
The way predatory animals combine both modes of sensing when hunting is essential for success.
Summary of The Various Modes and Intensities of Sensing