_July 13, 20205_ Resilience will be, if it isn’t already, the word of the decade—and perhaps the century. Its definition will exert tremendous influence on the direction and flow of our culture, and possibly even our species and our planet. A key concept in resilience is the “stability domain”, which refers to a zone or space of stable coherence. Thriving within a stability domain depends heavily on adaptability and a balanced measure of inertia—the ability sometimes to withstand change, but more importantly, to remain buoyant and flexible. When adaptability diminishes, inertia increases, making it more difficult to avoid thresholds—the boundaries that mark the edges of our stability domain. As inertia grows, we become more at risk of crossing these thresholds, propelled into new and unfamiliar domains. Crossing beyond your current stability domain—beyond your current paradigm—will measure your transformability. When you cross, will you consciously find ways to recreate yourself in this new domain, or will the struggle against a new environment vastly greater than yourself tear you apart? In such a scenario, does one simply die—reducing beyond ego and consciousness to a mere biochemical or chemical state? Perhaps not. Perhaps parts of us persist, nourishing new life. Our cells, our higher-order matter, continue as part of something larger. This realization brings an unexpected sadness to practices such as cremation. For those who have cremated ancestors or loved ones, there was no awareness of this possibility. But now, with this understanding, you can hope and strive for something better for future generations and yourself. Enhance your transformability—your capacity to remake yourself within new domains. Strengthen your ability to flow back into the Earth, into nature, and into the broader ecosystem, becoming part of something new and enduring.