"We must more often and in greater measure keep closed the 'windows of the soul,' as the Holy Fathers called our sensory organs: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. We need to train ourselves, to force ourselves not to look, not to listen, taste, smell or touch just anything and everything."
Jean-Claude Larchet, in a selection from his new book, The New Media Epidemic, examines the deleterious spiritual effects of our new "connected" existence.
