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Have you ever done a reality disruption exercise? I just posted a reading of a Wendell Berry poem where he talks about becoming unpredictable to the system, to the surveillance state, by he says being like a fox, right, and making non-linear paths, doing things that don't easily compute or easily predictable, right, asserting essentially your free will. And it reminded me of reality disruption exercises, which I usually teach in the first week of Awakening Your Magic, and we line them up with the full card. But the best illustration of them that I've ever seen is in the movie, everything everywhere all at once. In the context of the movie, in order to quantum jump or to access the skills and abilities of parallel life version of themselves, they first have to do something in their present reality that is a statistical improbability. They have to disrupt the status quo in order to be able to jump outside of it. So you watch them, you know, in very cinematic form, you watch them do things like eat chapstick, right, something that they just would not normally do. It's exaggerated, obviously, right, they eat chapstick, and then suddenly they're a master of martial arts, and it doesn't really function like that in our world, but the core concept of it does work. Doing something that disrupts the status quo, and the more drastically you do it, the more you open up new options and new potentials for yourself. You essentially shock your system awake, utilizing novelty, right, your entire system wakes up because it's interfacing with a bunch of new data it has to, whereas we can run on autopilot when we're inside of familiar circumstances and familiar experiences. The same way that like if you hang something up on your wall, when you first hang it up, you're like, whoa, my new poster or whatever, and then like a month later, it has faded into background noise, right, your brain filters it out because it's no longer fresh new relevant data. That can happen to your whole reality, you function off of autopilot, of muscle memory, and over time, you sort of like forget your free will, and your sense of options, I always describe that as like the Sims drop down menu when you press something and it's like, I could do this, I could do this, I could do this, your drop down menu shrinks a lot, even though you actually have a lot more options than you're aware of. So reality disruption exercises like shock your system awake remind you that you're alive and that you have free will, and that the world is a lot bigger than you have been giving it credit for. Small versions of reality disruptors are just like doing weird shit that already fits within the context of your life. So it's like wearing something completely different, like out of character, for you, or going a different route to work, or you know, anything that kind of interrupts just the typical decisions that you make, but those are micro decisions. So their impact is also going to be relatively small, right, it's going to shake up the day to day, but not necessarily blow your world wide open. Large scale reality disruptors either throw you like really far into different context, or they interrupt your identity. So this is why when like people do large scale travel, or they go abroad, they always come back being like, it changed my life, and I'm so alive, and like whatever. Yes, because of the exposure to like different cultures or different experiences or whatever, but the really transformative aspect of it is thrusting themselves into a completely new context, not having any of the familiar experiences, people, environments, whatever around them, and having to be like fully awake, aware, alive, immersed in something. I'll give you an example of an identity disruptor. I did this when I had been vegetarian for 15 years of my life, and one day a friend convinced me to try chicken just because he was eating it and it looked so good, and I was like, maybe today's the day, and I ate it, and then I was like, oh my god, I'm not who I think I am anymore. And that really is the key pivot of a reality disruptor. It's that sense of like, maybe I'm not exactly who I think I am, maybe I'm not the way that I have been defining myself, and maybe the boundaries of my reality are different than I've been defining them. A safely out-of-character decision is one of the fastest routes to significant change in your life, and it's a really great way to stay connected to your free will and to remain unpredictable in the ever-growing surveillance state.