What if there is, yes, a quality of inwardness to the mind, not because the mind is located inside us (inside our body or brain), but because we are situated, bodily, inside it—because our lives and our thoughts unfold in the depths of a mind that is not really ours, but is rather the Earth’s?

This capacity to shift the focus of what criteria we choose is what we will call an “identity lens,” which we can adjust from a narrow focus on our body or brain alone to a wide-angle perspective, seeing who we are as fundamentally intraconnected within the whole energy system of the universe.