as political scientist Laura Zanotti writes, “the ways we imagine how the world is made shapes what we consider politically possible.”

Feeling safe to talk about feelings, feeling supported when things are hard, being able to safely share about things that really matter when we struggle – these create the sense of mattering that is at the core of PCEs.2

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.

Bohm and Peat refer to our common tendency to unconsciously defend ideas that are considered significant to “the mind’s habitual state of comfortable equilibrium.”7 They point out that it takes more energy to change one’s mind than to maintain the same pattern of thought.

superposition refers to all possible states of a phenomenon existing at the same time,

Context both defines and influences the nature and quality of relationships that make up a particular system.

3 BELIEFS

In contrast to a mechanistic and deterministic world, quantum physics describes a universe of indeterminacy, entanglement, superposition, complementarity, uncertainty, and not the least, potentiality.

Quantum superposition draws attention to the many equitable and sustainable alternatives that exist and can be “collapsed” into reality, right here and now.