Apocalypse now: caught in the Web of Revelations

The trick to entering the now, according to its masters, is not to try to escape our thoughts or emotions. It's simply to let them be there, as they are, but in the background, rather than in our somewhat frantic foreground. We can find the gap in our thoughts not by following them with a search engine, but by refocusing elsewhere. It isn't a matter of blocking or suppressing, but of choosing what we'll pay attention to. It's only by doing this that we can simultaneously inhabit what the ancient Greeks called chronos, or linear time, and kairos, or soul time. It's kairos - the space, the gap, the quiet, the respite from our thoughts - which is the real edge of eternity, the eternal now.

I close my eyes. I focus. I breathe.

I return to the internet. I check out my bad review.

Yup. Still there.