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6-item "Belief in Oneness Scale" consisting of the following items:

1. Beyond surface appearances, everything is fundamentally one.


2. Although many seemingly separate things exist, they all are part of the same whole.


3. At the most basic level of reality, everything is one.


4. The separation among individual things is an illusion; in reality everything

Natural Selection — “The differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype. It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in heritable traits of a population over time.”

If the vertical axis is caring personally and the horizontal axis is challenging directly , you want your feedback to fall in the upper right-hand quadrant. That’s where radical candor lies.

It is an insolent cliché, almost, to note that our culture lacks the proper script for ending friendships. We have no rituals to observe

a belief in oneness was more strongly related to feeling connected with distant people and aspects of the natural world than with people with whom one is close !

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?

“But … it’s the whole idea that friendships are voluntary that makes them positive.”

It gets trickier as you age, living. More bad things happen. Your parents, if you’re lucky enough to still have them, have lives so different from your own that you’re looking horizontally, to your own cohort, for cues. And you’re dreading the days when an older generation will no longer be there for you—when you’ll have to rely on another ecosyste