“I was listening to you for hours straight and everything I was looking at was referred to by your recordings when I was going about my daily stuff. At the exact moments”

I am writing instead of talking at the moment because, in this case, writing can be useful because of how it excludes music. You ‘hear’ writing differently than speech. Sometimes, in very peculiar situations, writing can be more useful because it invokes our imagination in a different way.

Now, just as when you were listening to me, the world began to take on the likenesses of what I was speaking about… so, too, it is with all things.

What we are attending »encontexts what we are experiencing and thinking. So that, if you are listening, for example, to a preacher, the world takes on this likeness for you. Or if you are listening to someone filled with hatred and accusation, your inner experience begins to resonate with it.

This can be called various things. One of them is apophenia. That’s when connections between disparate events or perceptions overwhelm our ordinary mind.

Fundamentally, however, what you describe is a synchronization of one’s interior »relations with experience… with what is being suggested by what one is listening to.

The important thing is to notice that the »encontexting is catalyzed by sensory and imaginal experience. And the contexting tends to produce likenesses in thought, behavior, ideas, concerns, interests, and attention.

This is why it is important to be aware that the »encontexting influences we select are extremely important. Because they not only change our minds, they deeply influence what our minds can be or do.

— fragment of a conversation