Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib, a podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex, spiritual, philosophical, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

Well, friends, I'm going to start this episode with Pilar Lesko in a minute.

But first, let me sort of lead up and talk about some reasons why I had

pull her on, who she is a bit, but also something profound that's been happening in the world.

You know, I think something that people aren't talking about enough with a whole past year and a half or so is not the huge portal that we've gone through when we look out into the world and see how things have changed, but rather the inner event of what has happened.

Because the inner event is intractable. There's no going back to normal, not just because of

digital currency or lines at the supermarket or even, I don't know, some sinister conglomerate of people, those things are

worth considering. But I want to pay attention to the massive rearrangement that's happened

inwardly for so many. We've thought new thoughts. We've watched the weather of new feeling

within us. We've found new things available to us and through us.

We've experienced new images in our psyche,

had new conversations with friends that spark new conversations within ourselves.

So so much has been going on within us. And that doesn't go away, ever.

Even if we had some sort of civil rights struggle around whether or not we want to move to a digital currency, for example, or whatever, the standard ones, vaccine passports, or, I don't know,

whatever those other ones are. Even we would have, like, struggles over those. Those could rise and

fall. Those could come and go. We would find tactics of resistance or ways to support these things that we

wanted or whatever but the inner

events have changed us totally but this has been going on for a while there's been a lot of lead-up to

this i mean especially you know for a lot of people in america uh for the past four or five years in the U.S., I should say,

there's been a lot happening there, but everywhere, really.

There's been a kind of gathering.

It's just that the past year and a half has been totally globalized, the globalized

...