It is important to keep some contact with the rest of the world during isolation to reduce causal domain shear.
The expression can be traced to the Third Centennial Apert, when the gates of several Hundreder maths opened to reveal startling outcomes, e. g.: at Saunt Rambalf’s, a mass suicide that had taken place only moments earlier. At Saunt Terramore’s, nothing at all — not even human remains. At Saunt Byadin’s, a previously unheard-of religious sect… At Saunt Lesper’s, no humans, but a previously undiscovered species of tree-dwelling higher primates.