Rewriting the Hidden Codes That Quietly Run Our Lives
I had a wonderful, thoughtful conversation with Dr. Jiani Wu on her show, MAGICommons (formerly MAGICademy), about the invisible agreements we carry, the subconscious codes formed in early childhood that shape our perceptions, our relationships, and the way we move through the world, usually without our ever noticing them. Jiani is a deeply perceptive interviewer, and she drew the conversation into some of the most practical territory I have explored in an interview.
We talked about how these hidden agreements form, why two siblings raised in the same home can turn out so differently, and how the same sensitivity that becomes hypervigilance in an unstable childhood is, in its healthy form, simply intuition. We explored what it actually means to change one of these agreements at the level where it lives, rather than just thinking our way toward change, and why embodiment, not affirmation, is the key.
Along the way I shared a story about a confrontation with a tree-trimming crew that shows this work in action, and we got into some of the ideas I care about most: standing your ground without force, protecting your sacred space, the difference between probable and possible futures, and what I think of as radical agency, the ability to define yourself and your future rather than being pulled along by the agreements you inherited.
If this conversation resonates, you can learn this work beginning with Level 1 - The Fundamentals of Shamanism.