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I use this story concept. The idea that our whole world is built on a story, or on an
ideology, or you can even say a mythology. That every culture has, the story of the people,
I call it. You know, that answers life's basic questions. All the way down to the level of
"Who are you? What is it to be a human being?" And that story is changing. It used to be,
for a long time, in civilization, right? Not indigenous people, but in civilization it
was "What you are is a discrete, separate individual, among other individuals in an
external universe, that's separate from you." And really every field kind of agreed on this,
you know, religion: "You're a soul encased in flesh." Psychology: "You're a mind encased
in flesh." Biology: "You're the expression of DNA seeking to maximize your reproductive
self-interest." Every field agreed, and that conception of Self has basically poisoned
our planet because we treat it as if it were an other, and we treat each other as if we
were others. And the break-down of that story is bringing us into an understanding of interconnectedness,
or interbeing. So, we are faced with a series of choices. Like, do we stand in separation,
or do we stand in connection, interbeing. And we can choose as long as we want to, to
stay in separation, but that choice gets harder and harder to uphold and the invitation becomes
stronger and stronger and the longer we take, then, the worse things get. You know, the
more powerful the birth contractions become. but a lot of people are seeking to live in
a new story, you know. And intellectually a lot of people agree with it, yeah, you know
we're not separate. We're not separate from nature, we're not separate from each other
and we've had experiences that show us that, you know. But there's still, even if you grasp
it intellectually, there's so many habits that we have of separation. And that means
that a really profound healing process has to happen.