She starts off by describing four ways that people on spiritual paths, see or perceive the world. And this is what she says, These are not specific to any particular religion, you can find them in all spiritual traditions. These four ways our world is battlefield, world is trap, world as lover, and world as self. And then she says, By world, I mean the place we find ourselves in the scene upon which we play out our lives. And, in reading this chapter, I was really struck by how, before ways of seeing the world that she describes very much relate to how we develop in Zen practice, including some of the common hindrances we encounter along the way. So first, let's look at world as battlefield. She says seeing the world as a battlefield is where good and evil are pitted against each other, and the forces of light battle the forces of darkness. Such a view is very good for a rousing courage, summoning up the blood, using the fiery energies of anger, aversion and militancy. It is very good to for giving us a sense of certainty. It is strong among monotheistic religions, and it is contagious. She also uses words like self righteousness, and fundamentalist just to describe this worldview, where basically we carve up the world into us versus them right and wrong. And she says it has a certain appeal and tenacity. You know, of course, we see this world view not only in religion, but in politics. The world is against me, if only people could see the way I see things the way I do. Then everything would be made right So it can take the form of a righteous attitude about another person or group thinking that I are we know better or more aware or more knowledgeable than them. And you see this playing out right now with the COVID-19 vaccine. There's a lot of misinformation out there that has led some people to see the vaccine as part of some conspiracy. One myth is that it actually gives you the virus. And another that I've read about is that it contains a microchip that will enable Microsoft to track our whereabouts. Of course, that means everyone sitting here at cheapen mill tract right now. And, actually, climate change denial is another example. We hear these days. And was just yesterday, I just came upon a New York Times article that speaks to this phenomenon, and just gonna read like a paragraph from it. And it's titled belonging is stronger than facts, the age of misinformation. And it's by Max Fisher. And yeah, there's this good summary pack paragraph here. He says, as much as we like to think of ourselves as rational beings who put truth seeking above all else, we are social animals wired for survival. In times of perceived conflict or social change, we seek security in groups. And that makes us eager to consume information.