“To avoid an unpleasant thing or emotion, and the more we avoid those, those unpleasant discomforts within us, I think the more we are, we remain close to a dominant view of reality. Because individuating and stepping outside of our social group is a painful experience.”

“I saw that, largely we function on data, and information and narratives that are given to us, and that we don’t have much sovereignty and independence and individuality to actually sift through that and actually make sense of what is true.”

“We need to come to terms not only with our own darkness, because it’s inherent within our existence on Earth, it’s but also how that connects to the darkness and the unconscious destructiveness of, of the collective whole.”

“Part of it was genuinely seeing apathetic and disinterested populace, which was driven by trends and automated impulses, automated scripts that were not of their own choosing. And that I suppose there’s an inherent feeling of justice or righteousness where I get, I get triggered, and in a way into righteous, righteous indignation, and righteous anger.”

“I think there’s a palpable sense that something is not right, that this is not all there is. And I think most of us feel that. It’s just at what level of perception does that really hit?”

“I put it to the side and I just went on with my life because it was a quite a daunting task, I realized that and it overwhelmed me. And that overwhelm was justified. And I believe that my nervous system, my intuition, knew that I needed to sort of like work a bit more on my craft, on my, on my presence and my ability to carry through with the task.”