And, you know, from the book I wrote, Your Brain on Art, I co-authored, there's a lot of research around the aesthetics and how we create those spaces are absolutely against everything we know around how human beings heal.

I mean, it doesn't take someone thinking about ourselves as energetic beings to know that the lights in hospitals [chuckles] do not help anyone's circadian rhythm get the rest they need in order to recuperate their body.

And then when you get into, oh, we also might be energetic beings, not might be, we are energetic beings, then we have to think about, well, does the human believe that they can heal? What are they carrying forward? What are they saddled with that may not be able to be picked up on a CT scan that may be impacting their ability to, uh, go through the next process in life? And what are they living for? You know, what is the purpose and meaning, and how does that influence us in terms of our biological energy and what we're producing physically? Uh, there are many doctors that say they can give you all the treatment in the world, and yet you won't actually get better without something shifting in your life.

So I think we're just at the beginning stages of looking at it from the physical spaces, which absolutely need to be changed in order to support people, to the psychological and then the energetic beyond that.

You know, I actually think this is a super exciting time, the fact that we, we have all this input, and we don't have all the answers, and it's a time to use both the science and our imagination to maybe have some new hypotheses to move forward with.

I think a lot of people will be surprised just how much is being influenced by perception and what it takes to shift perception, which for many people is quite a bit different than we've been taught.

We've been taught to silence the mind, but actually having small moments of aha and observation can likely be the most powerful influence.

So when I think about energy, I think about what is the animating force within each of us.

And, you know, from the book I wrote, Your Brain on Art- I co-authored, there's a lot of research around the aesthetics and how we create those spaces are absolutely against everything we know around how human beings heal.

I mean, it doesn't take someone thinking about ourselves as energetic beings to know that the lights in hospitals [chuckles] do not help anyone's circadian rhythm get the rest they need in order to recuperate their body.

And then when you get into, oh, we also might be energetic beings, not might be, we are energetic beings, then we have to think about, well, does the human believe that they can heal? What are they carrying forward? What are they saddled with that may not be able to be picked up on a CT scan that may be impacting their ability to, uh, go through the next process in life? And what are they living for? You know, what is the purpose and meaning, and how does that influence us in terms of our biological energy and what we're producing physically? Uh, there are many doctors that say they can give you all the treatment in the world, and yet you won't actually get better without something shifting in your life.

So I think we're just at the beginning stages of looking at it from the physical spaces, which absolutely need to be changed in order to support people, to the psychological and then the energetic beyond that.

You know, I actually think this is a super exciting time, the fact that we, we have all this input, and we don't have all the answers, and it's a time to use both the science and our imagination to maybe have some new hypotheses to move forward with.

I think a lot of people will be surprised just how much is being influenced by perception and what it takes to shift perception, which for many people is quite a bit different than we've been taught.

We've been taught to silence the mind, but actually having small moments of aha and observation can likely be the most powerful influence.

So when I think about energy, I think about what is the animating force within each of us? Some people think about it as connected to our soul, but what really actually brings us enjoyment, what brings us excitement, what captures our interest? And where this leads to in a very unexpected way is the nature of the unique individual, whether that be their soul, whether that be their path, whether that be their purpose.

What made you all publish this now?

We published this for a specific reason and a broad reason.

The broad reason is that if Democrats are going to not just be Trump and Trumpism, but MAGA long run, we need to be able to build majorities in lots of red and purple places.

And right now, the Democratic Party is perceived as more extreme than mainstream in many places.

And a majority of Democratic voters want the party to move towards the center.

So if the party aligns with folks who are this extreme and cozies up to them, it's going to make it much harder, not easier for Democrats to not just flip the house and get the White House back, but beat Vance and MAGA and Rubio and the rest of them long run.

The specific impetus was that the pod save folks, right? right, very prominent Democrats, had featured Hasan Piker at a conference where they are officially elevating him and aligning him with Democrats.

Like, you can pick a number and make this argument in either way.