Maya Shankar

Jean-Dominique Boby.

Yeah, exactly.

That is what she experienced as a... It's torture.

this is a lot of people's worst nightmare.

It would be my worst nightmare.

You are in a literal prison because, again, it's not like the consciousness is compromised in any way.

You are fully Jason.

I'm fully Maya.

But I don't have any portals for communicating with the world around me other than my eyes.

And so Olivia wakes up in this state.

And what I found so shocking about her story

is what being locked in revealed to her about who she was and mental states and perspectives that were potentially holding her back.

So one of the themes that emerges in my book, The Other Side of Change, is that change can serve as revelation.

So when a bad thing happens to us, it can feel like a personal apocalypse, right?

Like the world that we knew and had grown comfortable with is no longer available to us.

And there's something interesting about the word apocalypse, which is that it comes from the Greek word apocalypsis.

And apocalypsis does mean revelation.

And so I share this etymology because it is instructive.

Change can upend us, but it can also reveal things to us.

Sometimes, or most of the time, we go about our lives sort of thinking we have a good understanding of who we are.