I read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain long time ago, and was revealing. I agree with what you say that meditation and art is the way out… if only I could finish reading all those blogs in my RSS reader

I feel I’m sometimes on this slippery slope, losing myself on the net, losing the connection to the world I might have build.
On a more practical way, I feel this lead me to lose the concentration needed to work on bigger chunk of information sometime. But with some work, it seem it can be gained back.
In fact, I’m reading again Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (B Edwards), working to get back some of my habilities, and well, lot of the sensation we got while we draw are what you describe as the third eye. Things are, we “know” them without word. In the Zen of Creativity (by J.D. Loori, my first contact with the idea of zen), the author link the zen meditation stade with the practice of art (in his case the photography). Zen meditation and zen art as a way to gain back those abilities? To escape the scattered mind? It seem to work for me.