Unto the High Places

I have pondered the contemplative life wondering how it could be useful or applicable to one in the twenty-first century. Might it be useful-even in this age of high-speed electronics of smart phones and Wikipedia-or should it be consigned to the annals of history to days when life was apparently simpler and quotidian challenges easier to resolve? Reduced to its essentials the life of a recluse or eremite might after all prove to be instructive freeing and liberating. It might still be generally relevant.