"In crisis moments, perception of relational and interrelational processes becomes seemingly gratuitous, and only the practical is given legitimacy."

I take "practical" here to mean the limbic system's "practicality" - individual survival impulses, wherein our potential attention to broader contexts is discarded as gratuitous.

To the extent we can train our body-minds to be at least somewhat present with, rather than entirely subject to, our limbic reactions, we can expand what we consider "practical" in crises.

Our dominant culture does not value that kind of training, in general - more the opposite. And, those methods and means have existed likely as long as humans have. So it's not out of the question that they could again become part of our implicit manner of living.