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Long post. Most will scroll past before realize what is hidden in it. That is part of the filter. This is not one idea. It is a trail. Physics shows up. Belief shows up. The body shows up. Responsibility shows up. At first, they may look like separate rooms. They are not. They are connected doors. Read slowly. The connections run deeper than they first appear. A person can spend years looking for answers and still refuse the one thing that would actually change the result. That is the part people usually do not want to see. They think the problem is lack of information. More books, more lectures, more techniques, more quantum mechanics, more explanations. But information does not change a life if the belief underneath remains the same. Before looking at physics experiments, this needs to be clear. In this view, quantum mechanics is not mainly about technology, weapons, machines, or theories. The real point is to understand how the universe works so a person can create the reality they want in their own life. But there is a trap here too. A person can hear “consciousness is fundamental” and turn it into another slogan. Another belief to defend. Another thing to repeat without changing anything. The words changed, but the structure did not. So the question cannot stop at, “What is consciousness made of?” That question matters, but it can become too abstract too fast. People start adding extra machinery, extra assumptions, extra invisible interactions, and then act as if the problem has been solved. But adding more parts does not automatically explain experience. It only moves the question somewhere else. The deeper question has to become operational first. What kind of system can sustain consciousness? What must a physical system do to keep a coherent internal perspective alive through noise, change, error, memory, pain, emotion, and time? That question points to what actually happens when consciousness appears, weakens, breaks, returns, or stabilizes. It does not ask for a slogan. It asks for a process. A conscious system has to keep a model of “me,” “now,” and “the world” intact while everything inside and outside it is changing. The body changes. The brain changes. The chemistry changes. The environment changes. Memory updates. Prediction errors arrive. Emotion interrupts. The senses keep correcting the picture. And still, something holds. There is a point of view. There is a world being experienced from somewhere. That does not fully solve the metaphysical hard problem. A skeptic can still ask, “Why should stable modeling feel like anything at all?” That is fair. A thermostat regulates. A computer processes information. A brain models the world. Those are not automatically the same thing as felt experience. But the question becomes deeper. Maybe experience is not a substance added on top of the system. It is what the system is from the inside when the right kind of self maintaining stability is achieved. Once a system preserves a living perspective across body, memory, prediction, and world, that perspective is not something it watches from outside. It is the only vantage point available to it. That is where the operational question opens the metaphysical one. Consciousness is the base of everything. Matter is not the foundation. Matter is a manifestation of consciousness. The fundamental state is the wave. What appears as matter is one expression of that deeper state. But then comes the practical problem. People hear this and still do not want to change their beliefs. If the beliefs do not change, nothing changes. A person can study for years and still produce the same life because the inner position stayed untouched. This becomes clear in a lecture room. You can explain the same thing fifty times, three hours each time, for years. The person listens, but does not move one millimeter. Five years later, the same belief is still there. So how could the result be different? It cannot. Study is supposed to mean learning. Learning means, “I did not know this before. Now I know it. Because I know it, I change my behavior. I change my consciousness according to what I learned.” If that does not happen, what was the point of studying? It is like reading the manual of a car while continuing to destroy the car. The manual explains what needs to be done, but the person keeps driving the same way and then acts surprised when the car stops. But what was the manual for? People often approach new ideas with an automatic reflex of rejection instead of genuine consideration. One point is raised and dismissed. Another follows and receives the same response. When this pattern continues, no new possibility is tested or allowed to land. Discernment is necessary, but when every suggestion is rejected before it is examined, real change becomes nearly impossible. The same requests keep coming. The credit card. The overdraft. The contract. Month after month, year after year, the person wants a different result, but the state behind the result does not change. In this view, everything that happens in a person’s life is connected to the consciousness they carry. If a person believes in problems, problems appear. If a person believes in possibility, possibilities appear. Imagine someone stuck in mud, holding onto it as if it were gold. Someone pulls them out, but as soon as they let go, the person jumps back in. Why? Because in their consciousness, the mud is still gold. The location changed for a second, but the perception did not. Only when the state of consciousness changes can they actually be helped. Until then, every rescue is temporary. The same applies to relationships. There is a process. It involves bio chemistry, neurotransmitters, and what the person feels. Handled properly, it works. Handled wrongly, it breaks. But many people hear the process and still say, “That cannot be done.” Then how can the result appear if the process is rejected? It is like making a chocolate cake. Follow the recipe ratios, temperatures, and the cake works. Change the ingredients carelessly, and there is no cake. For a cake, everyone understands this. But in life, when not following the law produces suffering, people still argue with the process. So the question remains. What is the problem with changing what you think? It looks like ego. It becomes “what I think” against “what is being explained.” The person holds onto the old belief because admitting the new one would mean letting go of being right. Even when the process is explained clearly, the old belief returns immediately. Someone might say, “But I was taught that I should not want too much,” or “Good things only come after I have struggled enough.” The conditioning reasserts itself before the new understanding can take root. There it is. A belief from childhood, family, culture, grandmother, great grandmother, another century, still deciding the person’s life today. Science and experience may show that it does not work. The person may be frustrated, repeating the same result, and still say, “No, someone else has to take initiative. I have to wait.” Who said that? Where was this written as a cosmic law? It was said by tradition, by conditioning, by people repeating what they received without checking if it produced happiness. This applies to everything. A person receives the explanation clearly. “Do this, this, and this.” In the moment, they agree. Then they walk out the door and do the opposite. Why deceive the person trying to help you? If you mislead your therapist, lawyer, or accountant, you do not win. You just make the help useless. If a person resists even that, imagine what happens when the subject touches the deepest layers of meaning and faith. Many hold stories and interpretations passed down through generations that once gave life structure and certainty. When a clearer and deeper understanding becomes available, some may hear it yet still continue living as if the older framework remains the final truth. Whole civilizations are built on stories. Ideas about life, death, work, women, guilt, punishment, rest, and salvation sit on top of them. So when the story is questioned, the person feels their whole structure being touched. To bring about real change in life, the person has to align with the basic principles of how the universe operates in this view. That requires shifting the state of consciousness and the underlying paradigm. Everything is under the paradigm. If the paradigm does not change, nothing truly changes. The person remains dependent on someone else to keep fixing what they continue to create from the same inner state. This is why resonance is meant for liberation, not as permanent support. Its purpose is to help the person shift their consciousness so they can stand on their own. When used this way, money may begin to flow and situations may improve. But if the thoughts and beliefs underneath remain the same, the old patterns eventually return and recreate the same problems. There is also a deeper spiritual point here. A real connection with God, the divine, the higher self, or the sacred within does not make a person smaller. It should make the person more honest, responsible, awake, and capable of love. The problem is not faith. The problem is when inherited fear, guilt, or identity freezes around faith and gets mistaken for the living connection itself. That is why full responsibility can feel threatening. It does not have to destroy faith. It can purify it. It removes the excuse, but not the sacred. It returns creative responsibility to the individual while allowing the inner connection with higher power to deepen instead of staying trapped inside old programming. There was a young man who understood this after only four months of doing this inner work. He came from heavy conditioning, but saw the mechanism. He realized the role his own consciousness had been playing in shaping his experience, and that he had been sabotaging himself through it. Once he saw that, he took the beliefs he had carried for years and threw them away. That is change. Now take illness. In this view, every illness has a psychosomatic dimension alongside its biological expression. Physical conditions often reflect deeper inner states. When it is suggested that certain patterns of inner resistance or avoidance can contribute to physical symptoms, strong objection usually appears. But test it yourself. Deliberately give space to inner resistance. Feed the feeling of not wanting to engage with life or responsibility, and observe what happens in the body over the following days. The resistance is intense because it brings the role of one’s inner state back into awareness. The work is to question the beliefs. List what you believe about money, health, relationships, work, sales, the body, and the future. Then compare the belief with the result. If the belief is not questioned and changed, the result is zero. Relationships expose this faster. When the subject is metaphysics, many people let it pass. But when the subject is male and female conditioning, the room heats up. Touch the beliefs around men, women, initiative, control, guilt, and blame, and people react instantly. This same pattern appears in how people treat others. Someone may speak of spiritual values while still holding contempt or judgment toward certain groups. The contradiction is not always obvious to the person. It stems from old stories absorbed long ago. Those stories continue to shape how the person sees and treats others through tone, assumptions, and prejudice. This is not rare. Old beliefs do not remain only in the mind. They turn into behavior. When this inner work begins opening the unconscious, what is inside starts coming out. If there is mud inside, mud comes out. This is why some people say they started the process and now have more problems. Fear, guilt, anger, prejudice, laziness, and old beliefs do not disappear just because someone pressed play yesterday. The cleaning can take time. It may last one month, two months, six months, a year, or longer. While the old material is still coming out, results tend to appear in pieces. The bigger shifts usually come once the cleaning reaches a certain point. Many people want the benefits, but they do not want the study, questioning, or inner change needed to hold those results. That is imagination trapped in place. But the principle is simple in this view. Your consciousness participates in shaping your reality and continues to do so. Change an inch in consciousness and reality shifts an inch. Change a mile in consciousness and reality shifts a mile. Expansion creates expansion. If you believe you can earn one thousand, you earn one thousand. If you believe you can earn ten thousand, ten thousand becomes possible. If you believe you can earn one million, then one million is not a different category. It is still energy. The number is not the obstacle. The belief is. This is why real help cannot stay as rescue forever. At first, someone may heal, fix, rescue, and intervene. But after years, the same pattern appears. The person receives the benefit but does not evolve. The money comes, the illness improves, but consciousness does not move. Then the helper realizes they are only postponing the consequence. So they stop being a crutch and start teaching. Because if the person does not understand, the same pattern continues here or on the other side. People resist quantum mechanics because they sense where it leads. If consciousness is involved in reality, then responsibility comes back to the person. There is no place to hide behind fate, blame, family, society, or chance. Even biology can be read through that question. A living cell has been shown producing laser light. Not a whole organ. Not a brain. One cell. If one living cell can organize light in such a precise way, imagine a brain with billions of neurons and countless connections. Can the human being release energy too? Yes, through consciousness. A cell can emit organized light. A human being, with a developed consciousness, can direct energy in a much greater way. But then the mind keeps collapsing the problem. There is a quantum effect where continuous observation can keep a system from changing state. Translated into ordinary life, if the person keeps staring at the debt, the debt remains. If the person keeps staring at illness, illness remains. If the person keeps staring at lack of work, lack remains. “When will the money come to pay the debt?” Never, while the whole consciousness is fixed on the debt. “When will I get a job?” Never, while the whole consciousness is fixed on not having one. “When will I leave the hole?” Never, while the person keeps observing the hole. Trying too hard from the wrong state can keep the person trapped. The person thinks effort is solving the problem, but the attention is still feeding the same condition. Sometimes problems move because people accidentally stop focusing on them. For a while, the problem is not being observed with the same intensity. Then things move because the focus loosened. That is why a simple instruction can be powerful. Watch films that hold your attention. Comedies, dramas, anything that takes the focus off the problem. But even that meets resistance. A person hears that laughter and endorphins can help the body, and then says they could not find a single comedy they liked. Healing cannot be separated from consciousness. A person may arrive with a serious illness and want a miracle. But if the illness was built through resentment, anger, guilt, fear, and years of inner pressure, then the real work is not only physical. The person has to change the state that built the condition. Each situation has to be seen as a whole. If a store is failing, it may not be only the store, the economy, the decoration, or the sales process. You have to look at the people involved, the relationships, the history, and the whole field around the situation. The system is built so people do not understand what reality is made of. As long as things are presented as mysteries that cannot be questioned, people are less likely to look into how they actually work. Once someone understands the atom, the rest begins to open. Matter is not so solid anymore. Reality is not just hard objects separated from each other. It becomes information, energy, relation, and response. That is why non locality matters. If all particles remain connected, then nothing is truly isolated. The whole universe is one entangled system. What happens in one place does not stay completely separate from what happens elsewhere. When problems appear in one part of the world, they are not truly isolated from the rest. In this view, events reverberate through the whole field. To claim complete separation from what happens elsewhere contradicts the interconnected nature of reality itself. The same inconsistency appears when those who profit from outdated systems blame the public for pollution while suppressing cleaner technologies that could reduce harm. In this view, one cannot claim separation while benefiting from the structures that create the problem. Everything is connected. Experiments with entangled particles show correlations that do not behave like ordinary local contact. One particle is measured here, and the other responds there. The information does not travel in the normal way through space, because relativity says nothing can travel faster than light. Yet the correlation appears. So what do people do with that? They use quantum principles to develop technology. Quantum computers. Quantum encryption. Quantum communication. They build products from the very principles they deny when consciousness enters the discussion. That is not simple ignorance anymore. That is convenience. If information is stored in the field and can be accessed and transferred, then resonance becomes sensitive because the result becomes measurable. Someone asks for a result, the information is transferred, and something changes. But will the system allow that kind of experiment to be done freely? Probably not. Because once the deeper potentials of consciousness and information are recognized and measured, they would exceed the limits of the current accepted framework. Strong evidence that consciousness can directly influence outcomes would force a shift the existing structure is not ready to allow. The resonance does not depend on a huge physical machine. The information is there. It is accessed. It is transferred. If the result appears, the old explanation starts to break. But people also sabotage the result. Someone may ask for a higher level of excellence, but not fully understand what they are inviting in. That force carries a way of thinking, feeling, acting, and deciding. It wants movement, execution, and the highest expression of itself. But when it enters a person’s life, it often collides with comfort zones, old beliefs, fear, approval seeking, and small habits. And then everything stops. The person says, “Nothing happened.” But something did happen. The archetype arrived and pushed toward expansion. The person hit the brakes with all their strength. If the person was moving at ten miles per hour, the archetype comes in wanting one hundred. The person panics and steps on the brake completely. So the system freezes. Not because the archetype failed. Because the person refused the level of action that came with it. If someone asks for excellence, they cannot keep living from mediocrity. A great scientist wants to study. A great athlete wants to train. A great business mind wants to build. The force comes with movement. That does not fit laziness, delay, comfort, excuses, or “this is good enough.” People ask for the top, but someone at the top is not there by accident. That person works more, trains more, studies more, sacrifices more, and refuses the average standard. So when that information enters, it demands alignment. If the person refuses alignment, the result blocks. That is imagination trapped in place again. The person does not want to study, learn, understand the laws, or question beliefs. They want to make requests and receive results as if the universe were a vending machine. But reality does not work according to what a person prefers. It works according to law. If the process is followed, the result comes. If the process is rejected, the result does not stabilize. The knowledge is already laid out. The path is not hidden. It is in the person’s hands. The only question is whether they will use it. Because receiving knowledge increases responsibility. The more a person understands, the more they are required to act from that understanding. If they know and do not act, they have to suppress what they know. And suppressing consciousness has a cost. The higher the consciousness, the greater the responsibility to live according to it. If the person receives more and still tries to remain small, the pressure turns inward. What is not lived becomes blocked. What is blocked becomes weight. And that weight eventually appears somewhere. So the point is simple. The more consciousness a person has, the more they have to do with it. Because if they do not, the same consciousness they refused to express becomes the force that turns against them.

新的一周开始了， 乐观和爱才是生活的解药。 岁月深长，未来可期， 愿努力生活的我们， 穿过风雨，依然灿烂。 早安，周一！ —— A new week has begun, optimism and love are the antidote to life. Time is long, and the future is promising. We, who are willing to work hard to live, will still shine through the wind and rain. Good morning, Monday!

I was so touched reading comments under the video clip of Xiao Zhan eating ice cream on Douyin that I decided to translate some of them. Just like the way #XiaoZhan# sends “postcards” to XFXs on his every trip. XFXs also confides in him like a brother or a family member. (Part 1. I put a few more comments under part 2) 💌 Zhan Zhan, I want to share with you a bit about my life. My recent situation is not very good. Maybe that's why when I listen to the background music, tears suddenly flow. Family pressure, and a small child... I don't know if my choice a year ago was right? I used to have work and colleagues. But now I've given up my job and become a full-time mother. Maybe I am not a qualified mother to say this. When I was a child, I was carefree and wanted to grow up quickly. Now I long to live those carefree days. Okay, no more complaining. Let's move forward together, you also. 🌹 💌 Zhan gege, retaking the exam is really tiring 😭. I will definitely pass in 2025, right gege? 💌 Zhan Zhan, I have been trying to get pregnant for many years without success. Next month I will try IVF. I am a bit scared, but I also hope to have a baby smoothly. 💌 Gege, should I take the postgraduate entrance exam? I can't make up my mind. 💌 I live alone in a foreign country. Watching Xiao Zhan's vlog and reading XFXs’ sincere messages moved me to tears ❤️ 💌 Zhan gege, today is my birthday. Today I am 21 years old 😆. I will dedicate my birthday wish to you. Guess what I wished for, I will tell you quietly. I wish that my Zhan Zhan will have a smooth and healthy life. 💌 Gege, I just submitted my graduation thesis. I'm looking for a job now, and feeling so much pressure. I don't know where my next journey in life is going. My college years are almost over, and I feel sad. But when I see you abroad, it really feels healing. It's like I’m breathing a moment of free time with you, and seeing my carefree self in a parallel world 😭 💌 Good evening, Zhan Zhan. I just got back from Beijing three days ago. I'm a little anxious and confused about what kind of job to look for next. 💌 Gege, let me show you today’s sunset at my place. 💌 Zhan gege, I've been so busy lately. Every day I'm overwhelmed with work. I feel like I'm about to collapse. Watching the video and listening to this bgm, in this moment, I suddenly miss you so much. 😭 💌 Zhan gege, I am about to get married, but I am still so confused. I don’t know if I can be a good wife, or a qualified mother in the future... I always have an inexplicable fear of the unknown future... 💌 Zhan Zhan, actually I have been very tired lately. Last week I accompanied my dad to Guangzhou for surgery. Last week my mom was hospitalized and I also had to accompany my dad to do dialysis. Today I had to take the blame for someone at work. Tonight after helping my boy with his homework, I watched your video as soon as he went to bed. The vlog felt so warm and beautiful. The feeling of helplessness recently made me want to cry but couldn't. I've long considered you a relative, a very close friend in my heart. So when I saw you, I naturally shed tears unconsciously. Let me confide my feelings with you in this comment section. Thank you for your presence and comfort. I will try to cheer up and continue to work hard to live my life well. I also wish you all the best, health, safety, happiness and worry-free. 💌 I want to eat that ice cream. Marriage is bitter. I don't want to try it in my next life. 💌 Zhan Zhan, I will retire in 5 years. I hope you can hold a concert so I can go see it. I've known you since 2019. I really want to see you at least once. 💌 Rewatching this clip made me want to cry, even though I was so happy watching the vlog earlier at noon. Seeing you eating like a kitten, you must be happy. You were so self-disciplined that you only ate one glutinous rice ball. But you bought your favorite ice cream and ate it slowly.

The mission of humanitarian work is to save lives and foster a spirit of solidarity. As we implement the successful practices from Jinan, we strengthen our commitment to supporting those in need. Together, we can create a more compassionate world for all.

If you were fortunate enough to have lived through the late 70's, 80's, & early 90's you may have seen the pinnacle of the human race. Racism was truly on the outs, immigration wasn't the problem it is today, western governments actually looked out for their citizens and sovereignty, the media did its' job, music and tv were of a wholesomequality, people actually spent their time going to work instead of spending time figuring out how to get out of work. And politicians still publicly demonstrated an America first policy. And then it all seemed to quickly change. The Clintons, 9/11, Bush/Cheney, GWOT, then Obama. I don't have all the answers nor will I pretend to. I know this was all in the works for generations. Maybe they figured that they had reached a certain point of power that they could do what they truly wanted... They being the communists, socialists, Fabian society types, etc., to actually have their revolution. Maybe they had realized that they had helped create societies that were soft and weak-minded. So soft that they were able to open borders and bring an influx of 3rd world types who would continually vote to keep them in power? Maybe to change the racial makeup of independent societies? Maybe to bring the downfall of the once strongest nations on earth, United States, Britain, and those that were part of the west? Maybe the countries of the European Union are providing the spark that is needed to reclaim our independence? I hope so. But I am not counting on it here in America. Our society, especially our younger generations, have been brain-washed by the comforts of what our forefathers built. Maybe they waited until our generations grew older, compromised to the lifestyle that we had become accustomed to? We have turned into a selfish nation. Immediate gratification. Not able to see that each man and woman plays a part in a civilized society. Working, raising sons and daughters to be intelligent, independent, strong citizens proud of their country and heritage. Immigrants who came here who were proud to earn the right to be called Americans. Immigrants who came here to add value, not to steal what others had built and sacrificed so hard for. That was the country that I grew up in. Not perfect. Where the only privilege was to be born here and afforded the opportunities that came with being a United States citizen. Maybe that was truly the best of times? I served as a United States Marine for 12 years with two combat tours, then picked up the mantel as a Deputy Sheriff. I worked every day doing my part to give back to the country that had given so much to me. My love for country will never end, nor will my commitment to make it better.

At midnight on February 6th, earlier this year, the doorbell to our apartment rang. The doorbell was followed by a pounding on the door. I answered the door and a security person in our building handed me his phone. It was my oldest daughter Eloise. She had found my 26-year-old daughter unconscious on the floor of her apartment and had called 911. The EMT team was already there, but they did not know what was wrong with Lucy or to which hospital they would take her. I threw on some clothes and jumped in an Uber heading east toward Brooklyn. (Lucy lived alone in Williamsburg.) On the way, I learned that they were taking her to Elmhurst, a City trauma hospital in Queens. I arrived about five minutes after the ambulance to join Eloise, Lucy’s mom, and a friend, and waited to learn what was wrong. After about 15 minutes, I asked a nurse where she was. I looked over his shoulder to his computer. Next to her name, it said “non-responsive.” I walked into the emergency room and wandered around looking for her until I found her unconscious on a gurney surrounded by several doctors and nurses. By about 2:30am with the results from a CAT scan, Lucy’s doctors had determined that she had a massive brain hemorrhage and would need an emergency hemicraniectomy to release the pressure on her brain and remove the blood from the hemorrhage. I called our wonderful friend and family doctor Eddie Fisher and explained what was going on. He woke up Josh Bederson, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, to find out more about Zach Hickman, the neurosurgeon on call that night. Dr. Bederson said Hickman was an excellent surgeon, which was comforting as we had no choice. The surgery to save Lucy’s life began around 3:15am and finished around 5:30am. It was successful. The following day, I joined Lucy in an ambulance while she was being transferred to Mount Sinai on Madison Avenue. Later that day, we determined from Lucy’s Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain (I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn’t cancel the alert). I later learned that the standard of care is not to do surgery to save a patient with a large brain bleed if more than five hours have passed since the hemorrhage. Even when the surgery is done, I was told that the likely outcome for the patient is a few months in a nursing home and death from pneumonia. When I met Lucy’s doctors, I did my best to inspire them: “Let’s see what can be accomplished if we give her the best care possible and we invest unlimited resources to restore her to life.” And I promised that whatever we learned we would make available to everyone. Dr. Chris Kellner, her neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System have led Lucy’s care team since that day. Words cannot describe the remarkable and compassionate care that she has received beginning with the EMT team and then from nurses, doctors, therapists, and the army of people who have worked to save her and return her to life. To this day, we have a daily Zoom where we discuss her progress and make adjustments to her care. While her care and oversight have been incredible, the learnings for the Mount Sinai team have also been elucidating and will assist in the care of many others. Lucy began in a bad place. She was in a coma for several weeks and then awoke not being able to breathe on her own, unable to walk, see or speak. Over the last six months, she has recovered her cognition – she understands everything including her circumstance – is able to walk a hundred or more steps at a time with assistance, is making progress with sounds, vowels and consonants and the beginnings of speech, but she remains unable to see. Each day, she makes a little progress, and daily progress compounds. Every day I tell her that she just needs to make a little progress and it won’t be long before she is back. We remain optimistic that Lucy will return to normal function. It will likely take years, but I believe it is only a matter of time, hard work, and technological progress, along with some, and perhaps a lot, of divine intervention. Many people have been praying for Lucy and we are incredibly grateful for the prayers and remarkable support she has received. Lucy’s friends have been with her every day since the beginning, and their presence and friendship have saved her life and helped to rebuild and maintain her spirit. And on a very positive note, Lucy’s challenge has brought together our entire modern family who have all been incredibly devoted to her care and recovery. Lucy's vision and other faculties may require some form of brain computer interface, work that is underway at Neuralink, Precision Neuroscience, Science, Synchron, Nudge, and other companies in the space. If you are going to have a devastating brain injury, now is the best time in history for that to happen. We are living in a world when you can be confident that the blind will soon see again. We are going to do everything we can to help make that happen, including by assisting existing companies in the space. With respect to our promise to make Lucy’s care available to others, we have made good progress. In May, a real estate colleague made me aware of a 93% vacant, brand new, 400,000 square foot Class A+ purpose-built biotech facility on West End Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets that missed the market and was available for sale. The Pershing Square Foundation acquired the building 60 days later. We also put under contract an adjoining 130,000 square foot building at 320 West 66th Street that is currently being used by Saturday Night Live for studio space. The building has 35-foot ceilings with massive column-free spaces that can be converted into superb rehabilitation facilities. We will close on the SNL building in December. We are also acquiring an adjoining vacant lot with additional air rights. With just the existing zoning rights, we can add a 150,000 square feet for a total of 680,000 square feet, a lab footprint larger than Rockefeller University, and that’s without including the potential for an upzoning that would allow for substantially more buildable area on the site’s 3.4 acres with spectacular views of the Hudson. Our goal is to build the world’s greatest brain research, rehabilitation, recovery, human optimization, and longevity institute. We have named it The Ackman Oxman Institute or the AOI for lack of a better name, but also to reinforce the point that Neri and I and our family are all-in on the mission. The AOI will be patient-centric. It will not be an academic research institute that produces lots of papers, a Nobel Prize winner or two, but little if any results for patients. We will be laser-focused on cures, treatments, devices, rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and targeted and basic research with a goal of massively accelerating the time from idea to innovation to production to helping a patient. While the AOI will be a non-profit, it will have highly commercial instincts. The AOI will have its own venture funding and will work to develop innovations to create companies that we will seed, assist, and spinout to ensure technologies, treatments, techniques, and drugs get to patients as promptly as possible. On one 3.4 acre campus in what is still the greatest city in the world, we will do neurosurgery, neuroscience, rehabilitation, nutrition, BCI and device development, human trials, hyperbaric oxygen treatments, and life extension programs, and we will mandate and incentivize collaboration among the teams with no silos, politics, bureaucracy, or any other constraint that is inconsistent with the mission. Mount Sinai will be an important partner and deservedly so, but it won’t be our only hospital or medical school partner as we don’t believe any institution has a monopoly on the best ideas or the best talent. We don’t believe in exclusive relationships because that is not in the best interest of patients. Five years ago, we considered launching a brain institute inspired by Neri’s mom who sadly died from Alzheimer’s. We couldn’t make the math work as the real estate was too expensive and we believed it would be too difficult to recruit the best talent from universities to our effort. Since then, the real estate became available at a 70% discount, universities became a much less attractive place to work due to politics outweighing meritocracy, protests that disrupt learning, the curse of antisemitism, and a decline in funding. Fortunately, during the same time, I made sufficient personal economic progress to make the AOI possible. The advance of AI in the last few years will also enable us to greatly accelerate our mission. AI still has a lot to learn about human intelligence and the brain, and the AOI should be at the forefront of the interplay between the brain and AI. Today, I am making a public filing disclosing a gift from Neri and me of ~$400 million or 10,000,000 shares of Pershing Square Inc. (PS) to the AOI. It is very early days for Pershing Square so these shares are intended to anchor the long-term work of the AOI as the shares compound over time while generating what we expect will be a growing stream of quarterly dividends to fund the Institute. We will also be announcing an additional gift of similar and potentially greater size which won’t be in the form of Pershing Square stock to provide the AOI with the short- and intermediate-term runway necessary to enable it to achieve its goal of becoming a self-sustaining institute, which reinvests all of its revenues, royalties, and the economic rewards of company formation to advance the fields of brain health and human longevity. Neri and I have chosen to anchor the funding of the AOI to maintain vision alignment and limit the need for the organization to focus on fundraising. We expect the AOI to be the best-resourced brain, rehab, recovery, and longevity institute in the world. We are grateful to have been able to form a board which includes Dean Kamen (our generation’s Thomas Edison), George Yancopoulus (CEO of Regeneron), James Rothman (Nobel Laureate), Bernardo Sabatini (neuroscientist), Chris Kellner (neurosurgeon), Olivia Flatto (CEO Pershing Square Foundation), Neri Oxman, and myself. We have recently identified a CEO who we expect to announce by October along with other key hires, and are beginning searches for a Chief Scientific Officer, a Chief AI/Technology Officer, a Chief Operating Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, and other key leadership roles. If you find what we are building compelling and want to be part of the leadership team that creates and builds the AOI from a standing start, please send an email to: search@aoiinst.org with a short note as to why you believe you can help. Please include your best three ideas for the AOI along with a summary of your background and your most important accomplishments. We promise strict confidentiality to those expressing interest in working with us. We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury. There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste. For details from my Pershing Square SEC filing see:

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an American artist moved to Japan and ended up winning a manga contest...but would she suggest other artists do the same?? Q: Would you recommend other artists come to Japan and/or enter manga contests? If so, what advice do you have for them? Linnea Kataja: "Whether someone should come and live in Japan is going to vary a lot from person to person. "Some people love it here, while others don't mesh with it and end up returning to their home country because it wasn't what they expected. "If you have the opportunity to live in a foreign country, even for a short time, I would highly recommend it. Living abroad can give you new perspectives on both your own life and the country you grew up in that you wouldn't have had otherwise. "In general, the people I see doing well in Japan tend to be fairly independent and have clear goals for what they want to accomplish here, whether that's building a career or creating a family life they enjoy. "If you're serious about moving to Japan, learning Japanese is essential. If possible, try to become conversational or fluent before moving here, since it will open up many more opportunities and make daily life much smoother overall. "As for entering manga contests, I think they can be a valuable experience simply because of what you can learn from them. Many contests offer editor feedback even if you don't win a prize, and that feedback can help you understand what you need to improve in order to create more professionally viable work." **please check out Kataja's contest-winning oneshot "This Foreigner is Too Otaku to Make Her Dreams Come True" on her X profile (Keiko Kup)