Nate Hagens

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.

it starts looking like the missing piece.

The thing pointing straight at the root of how we came to treat everything we depend on as though it was on a balance sheet and it were not us.

As we keep looking for fixes out there in our policies and in technology and in guidance from AI and better numbers to analyze a thing,

But maybe, dare I say probably, some of the real work is in here, in our own quiet dismantling of that wall that allowed us en masse, eight billion strong, though not all of eight billion, there are indigenous people that have understood this all along, allowed us en masse to treat a living world like a dead one in the first place.

So sitting here today, I still cannot define non-duality for you.

I've had many chances and have seemingly failed.