 One of the deep assumptions of the myth of modernity, the story of separation, is that the way to create change in the world is to exert force, to make something change. How do we make a change happen? How do I force somebody to change? How do I pressure corporations to change? Or how do I convince somebody that they're wrong? How do I win a debate? Like there's this oppositional mindset that comes from really Newtonian physics. Nothing changes unless you exert a force on it. Otherwise, the pendulum just keeps swinging forever. But if there's some air resistance, okay, then it will slow down. So there's a force against it. That way of, that oppositional way of relating to the world and to each other is based on a metaphysical assumption, and it's not actually true. Quantum mechanics has shown us that it's not true. When we understand, and to deep program from that actually takes time, that's the space between stories that you referenced earlier, to deep program from that way of thinking, you have to traverse a territory of bewilderment, of everything I thought I knew was wrong, who I thought I was, I am not really, and I don't know what's on the other side of it. Yet, on some level, you know that there's something on the other side of it. Some part of you understands that this descent into darkness has a purpose. And in those moments, we need allies actually to remind us of what we know. When we go through that process, then we're able to act from a different place, from a different consciousness, and the key tenet of that state is the understanding that we are not the only intelligence in the world, that things happen, and not just randomly, that are expressions of a larger intelligence, and that our power to enact change doesn't depend on how accurately and powerfully we can exert a force, and how big an audience we have on our podcast, and how big an audience our writing reaches and all that. There are other very mysterious principles of change at work, and that this inconceivable orchestrating intelligence will deploy each of us in the right place, at the right moment, with the right gifts, and with the right instructions to do what needs to be done. And the instructions come through our emotions, not through our calculations.