Stretching our minds across time for the Great Work

Hello Hedge Schoolers, <br/><br/>In a world that is screaming divide across algorithms designed to polarise, we have been drawn into a shouting match where the only play is to drown the other out with volume, fact warfare or groupthink. <br/><br/>There is a better way. But swords must be downed first. We are not the enemy. Ideology is. Constructs are. At a biological level, we are the same. Homo Sapiens. Born with the beautiful gift of making up our own minds. It is this gift we must protect. This gift we must honour in others. <br/><br/>This breeds diversity. <br/><br/>Diversity helps ecosystems thrive. <br/><br/>Diversity promotes innovation. <br/><br/>Diversity matters. <br/><br/>So your choices are yours. I honour that. Honour your ability to carry them out as you please. I may not agree. That is my choice. As warriors of the heart, we must acknowledge the sovereign right to make our own minds up. But must also remember that our minds are often just made up. <br/><br/>Waking up in our Reality Tunnel<br/><br/>My worldview is biased. Narrow. Culturally linked. Localised. Stating it any other way would just confirm the bias. I do my very best to broaden the view by spending time in the shoes of others, listening with open ears, and walking curiously with deep questions. A search for better questions. <br/><br/>The further I walk, the more knowledge I come to meet. The more I know, the more uncertain I feel. The dissonance stills me. Provides a halfway meeting point for the world of the adjacent possible to show up. Being in this uncertainty is challenging. A desire for some semblance of control can lead to our boat anchoring in certainty. <br/><br/>But certainty comes with bias. <br/><br/>I've written <a href="https://hedgeschool.substack.com/p/a-third-way-the-stubborn-contemplation">before about certainty and its role as the eternal trickster</a>. Polarity is not two poles. It is a continuum where degrees matter. The weather is more than hot or cold, it is degrees along a continuum. A united continuum. Unity is