Nate Hagens

We just don't usually reach for a Sanskrit word to describe a Thursday morning.

That feeling of being a self sealed off, looking out at a world that's over there is actually a core theme of the work we're doing at this platform.

And part of, a central part of, I believe, what I'm referring to as a species level rite of passage.

because it's of the same shape as feeling cut off from the living world.

I am in here, nature is out there.

Nature is a backdrop, a resource, a pile of stuff waiting to be turned into something useful for our economy.

And once you really believe all that,

Once it becomes wired in below your conscious level of thought, you can do almost anything to what's out there.

You can clear it and drain it and burn it and eat it and feel nothing.

Because by definition, it isn't you.

So that wall not only confuses us, it also anesthetizes us.

And I think so much of what we're living through these days might be sitting on top of that one piece of code that the super organism edited over in our DNA, our cultural DNA, and the deep unquestioned sense that we are separate from the thing that grows our food, makes our oxygen, holds the biosphere steady enough for us all to exist and for future generations.

We've built an entire civilization on the assumption that the world is a warehouse and we're the customers.

And the bizarro part is for those paying attention, the bills are coming due to a self that still thinks it's standing outside the system, watching and analyzing the numbers from a safe distance.

There is no safe distance.

There never was.

The smoke probably likely coming in months from a forest on the far side of British Columbia ends up in the kids around here lungs as one of countless examples.

The line we drew around ourselves was always imaginary and our culture supported and advocated it

And the planet is now spending a great deal of energy reminding us of that line.

And if that's all true, my reason for recording this at the last minute, if that's all true, then the concept of non-duality stops being some spiritual luxury for people with time and money on their hands.