Richard Taite

rather than a threat mindset.

And that's all the difference.

Yeah, I think that's right.

And I think there's a

there's a real intelligence to the looking at integration as the fundamental source of wellbeing.

And it's quite simple.

It's like differentiating and linking

And in the linking of these differentiated aspects of the system, like me walking on this walking desk, my left and right leg are differentiated from each other, but I can walk in a balanced way because they are linking.

And as they link, they don't lose their essence of a different left and right leg.

So it's not the same as homogenous or blending.

integration is this fascinating way where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

So other words people have used, Buckminster Fuller used the word synergy.

And so you get a synergy that arises like the wetness of water emerges from the interaction of the elements of the water.

It's not in any single water molecule.

And in that way,

We come back to where we started, you know, that individuality gets rid of the relationality.

And once you're lost in individuality, you lose the emergence.

You lose that synergy.

You lose the integration because you're excessively differentiating without linking.

And that ultimately leads to chaos and rigidity.