You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

Our beliefs about the nature of reality influence our relationships, including our relationship to nature.

Efforts to end slavery, promote women’s rights and civil rights, establish labor rights, support marriage equality, and protect animal rights are not necessarily the result of paradigm shifts, but rather the outcomes of people thinking, being, and acting differently.

The brackets are a simple way of communicating the essence of entangled relationships, helping us to shift from the “us versus them” perspective that perpetuates a fragmented and divided society, towards an [I/we] perspective that acknowledges our inherent oneness.

stories do not exist only in our minds; we also embody them. In The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason, Mark Johnson emphasizes that the mind and the body have never been separate, and that meaning and rationality are grounded in recurring structures of embodied human understanding: “Understanding is an event – i

Quantum social change requires that we step outside of our pre-existing narratives and instead have the courage to shift social and cultural norms to support an equitable and thriving world.

Rather than opening our minds to new ways of seeing and being in the world, we tend to retrofit new ideas into existing frameworks and describe them with familiar language.

when we act in the moment, with an awareness and intention that is based on the recognition that [I/we] are connected, we create space for new possibilities to emerge.

For example, “collaboration” can mean working with someone to produce something, or it can mean traitorous cooperation with an enemy.16 This means that we can talk about collaborating to develop alternatives to fossil fuels, or we can talk about collaborating with oil companies through continued financial investments. Although concepts can have mul

Quantum social change does not require us to wait for some remarkable leader or hero to introduce solutions that will save us – it is about each of us acting right now, within our own dynamic context and spheres of influence, to generate new patterns and relationships.