Q: Your book helped me see how we’re living in a world of undeveloped children including world leaders. What’s the point of outgrowing the false self if the children are still in charge?

Everywhere I look I see what Jed calls nasty little monkeys using the world stage as their playground.

A: Jed McKenna’s reference to ‘nasty little monkeys’ is a blunt shorthand for the immature ego structures driving much of human behavior. In the book I describe this as humanity’s arrested development. It’s what you get from a species with immense capacities for intelligence and technological power, that’s still operating from immature, under-developed …