Yesterday I was talking on the internet to a friend who is in France at the moment, and they were saying that they would like a face to face conversation with me.
The great thing about new technology, if it works, (yes, yet again my Skype Dualphone 3088 phone system does not work), is that we can be in contact with loved ones, family and friends in any part of the world, sometimes free of charge, and at other times, at charges less than a normal landline fee, plus like yesterday actually seeing each other, live, with a video camera.
We have many tools that help us keep in contact, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Skype, Gizmo, LinkedIn, to name just a few, social networking, business networking, VoIP etc, but this is all electronic, the human contact is not there, the face to face contact is not there.
“Smelly vision” is not with us yet. Yes, we can hear the voice, yes, we can see a video picture, yes, we can read messages, emails and SMS’s. In NLP terms, V (visual) and A (auditory), but K (kinesthetic), O (olfactory), G (gustatory) are missing.
Communication involves all five senses V,A,K,O and G, it becomes a whole body experience, We need the touch of a fellow human being, (or living thing), we need to smell, perhaps the wonderful perfume, Dior’s Poison or Yves Saint Laurent’s Kouros, my favorite eau de toilette, the human odours, the pheromones, the chemicals that affect how our brain reacts to fellow man, and the taste of the moment, the chemicals that float in the air, then into our mouths, touching our taste buds, again affecting our Map of the Word.
All the technological advance miss the K, O and G modalities, especially Facebook, MySpace, Skype and Gizmo etc.
What a shame.
My friend asked what country I was in, and I said the UK, and they said “Oh so close to France”.
Tomorrow I informed them I would be even closer, as I will be flying to Milan, Italy, leaving London’s Heathrow at 6am, to deliver a PhotoReading course, and I will be only 10,000 meters (35,000 feet) from them, not far. But still not close enough.
There are thousands of people at any one time high above us, flying from here to there, for business, holidays, or to have face to face meetings with loved ones, yet how many of us with our feet on the ground know or realise that those people could be looking at us. We are only aware of our little world around us, aware of our own troubles, fights, joys and sadness, our own world.
It is sometimes good to take our shoes off, and put another persons shoes on, step inside their shoes, see things from their point of view or perspective.
If we have an argument, be it between a friend or loved one, between nations or countries, or involving beliefs, if only we could stop, consider and see things from the others view point, to feel how they feel about the situation, to fully involve ourselves in all the modalities (V,A,K,O and G), if only we could meet face to face, perhaps this world could be a better place, a more tolerant loving place, where trust, understanding and love, replaces hate, jealousy, war and mistrust.
If only we could detach ourselves from our world, and look down at what we are doing to ourselves and others, then when we meet face to face, it will be a better experience.
Perhaps then we would change the way we are, the way we dress, speak and share information.
The great thing about new technology, if it works, (yes, yet again my Skype Dualphone 3088 phone system does not work), is that we can be in contact with loved ones, family and friends in any part of the world, sometimes free of charge, and at other times, at charges less than a normal landline fee, plus like yesterday actually seeing each other, live, with a video camera.
We have many tools that help us keep in contact, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Skype, Gizmo, LinkedIn, to name just a few, social networking, business networking, VoIP etc, but this is all electronic, the human contact is not there, the face to face contact is not there.
“Smelly vision” is not with us yet. Yes, we can hear the voice, yes, we can see a video picture, yes, we can read messages, emails and SMS’s. In NLP terms, V (visual) and A (auditory), but K (kinesthetic), O (olfactory), G (gustatory) are missing.
Communication involves all five senses V,A,K,O and G, it becomes a whole body experience, We need the touch of a fellow human being, (or living thing), we need to smell, perhaps the wonderful perfume, Dior’s Poison or Yves Saint Laurent’s Kouros, my favorite eau de toilette, the human odours, the pheromones, the chemicals that affect how our brain reacts to fellow man, and the taste of the moment, the chemicals that float in the air, then into our mouths, touching our taste buds, again affecting our Map of the Word.
All the technological advance miss the K, O and G modalities, especially Facebook, MySpace, Skype and Gizmo etc.
What a shame.
My friend asked what country I was in, and I said the UK, and they said “Oh so close to France”.
Tomorrow I informed them I would be even closer, as I will be flying to Milan, Italy, leaving London’s Heathrow at 6am, to deliver a PhotoReading course, and I will be only 10,000 meters (35,000 feet) from them, not far. But still not close enough.
There are thousands of people at any one time high above us, flying from here to there, for business, holidays, or to have face to face meetings with loved ones, yet how many of us with our feet on the ground know or realise that those people could be looking at us. We are only aware of our little world around us, aware of our own troubles, fights, joys and sadness, our own world.
It is sometimes good to take our shoes off, and put another persons shoes on, step inside their shoes, see things from their point of view or perspective.
If we have an argument, be it between a friend or loved one, between nations or countries, or involving beliefs, if only we could stop, consider and see things from the others view point, to feel how they feel about the situation, to fully involve ourselves in all the modalities (V,A,K,O and G), if only we could meet face to face, perhaps this world could be a better place, a more tolerant loving place, where trust, understanding and love, replaces hate, jealousy, war and mistrust.
If only we could detach ourselves from our world, and look down at what we are doing to ourselves and others, then when we meet face to face, it will be a better experience.
Perhaps then we would change the way we are, the way we dress, speak and share information.