 there is a causal principle operating in this world that is alien to the modern mind based on Force the modern mind thinks that causality is a matter of a force acting on a mass So we have for example in most countries a prison system based on force The concept of deterrence is a force-based concept. We're gonna. Yeah, I know you you would you would if you could have your way Rob people and exploit people and harm the world because all you care about is yourself So we're going to impose a deterrent so that is no longer in your self-interest to do these nasty things It's based on a view of human nature that goes back all the way to Darwinian selfish genes that goes even farther back to original sin It goes even farther back to the origin of good and evil as concepts Which do not occur to the ecological mind another causal principle is operating in the world that when I am Cognizant of that principle. I know that the work in the prisons and all of the other healing work that might operate on a very small scale is having a enormous effect on the future Pulling deep threads of causality that might not surface for many generations Even though the rational mind says, okay, you know Yeah, maybe you're gonna work with prisoners But really in the context of climate change in the context of nuclear armageddon What good is that going to do these people are not gonna be big Influencers, you know, if you want to change the world, you better work with some influencers Not with some people who are gonna come out of prison and maybe they're gonna get a job at Chipotle If they're lucky, you know, you got to work with some influencers who are gonna have a big platform and change people's minds But the world doesn't actually work that way When we set out to do big things We end up competing with everybody else who's trying to do big things And adding to the field of competitiveness Instead if we want to align with the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible Rather than pursuing Bigness and the kind of change that we can measure that has that that generates big quantities of here's how many Prisoners we helped but instead we focus on beauty We focus on love then the bigger changes can Organically coalesce around that without our ambition for it to be big It's the principle of morphic resonance that Rupert Sheldrake Articulated that any change that happens in one place creates a field of change That makes that same change start happening everywhere else. So maybe you do adopt a prisoner Maybe you're just working with one prisoner who's come out now and is in society And it seems really small and part of you is like this isn't going to help the world It's just going to help one guy, you know, but actually what you are doing is you are reinforcing that field of compassion And because you are doing that it's going to start happening other places too And it works the other way as well Like what is moving in you that wants to Act on compassion right now that is sourcing from somewhere this impulse toward kindness this impulse toward love What is giving you courage To step out of self-interest To step out of security to step out of self-protection to step out of the habits that trauma may have lodged within you To say you know what I'm going to serve instead. I'm going to serve what I care about. I'm going to serve what's beautiful What are you drawing from from when that happens? You are drawing from the invisible contributions Of humble people Who did just that And have been doing that for centuries for from time immemorial And maybe they thought that they weren't changing the world but They are through the vehicle of everybody who's tapping into that field And if someday we have a political leader Who also is taking those steps of courage It's not that all of a sudden we elected a superman It's that the collective field had reached a point where such a leader could step into it