Nate Hagens

a kind of waiting room.

It's provisionally pleasant sometimes, but always a waiting room.

And the laughter of children and the taste of food and the light on the horizon in the field, all of it has the quality of somehow being a prologue to something else.

of becoming somehow not the thing itself.

And this future capture is what full default mode network dominance feels like from the inside when the content is civilizational.

It's the same phenomenon I called full dread in last week's Frankly, but viewed from a slightly different angle.

Dread is what it feels like.

Future capture is what it does to our attention.

And I think both are the mind unable to leave a future it cannot stop modeling.

I have lived in future capture for years.

Dare I say decades.

And much of the work I've done has depended on it.

And it has cost me.

more than I have wanted to admit.

But now I am aware of it.

So what do we do with all this?

I've come up with five pathways with the help of some research and my coaches.

They're at least directions and knowing that none of them is sufficient and all of them together are just a beginning.

The first is the senses.

The mind cannot be in the future and in the body at the same time.