"Think about going to the movies. The whole setup encourages us to be captured immediately. Within seconds, we're captured by the display on the screen. If it's a happy movie, we laugh; if it's a sad movie, we cry. If that's all that we're aware of, we don't really have much choice. However, if we were to take that same movie and project it on a screen in the middle of an open field in broad daylight, we would be much less likely to get captured. If there's a big explosion or a love scene, perhaps we'll pay attention for a little bit, but then our attention will get drawn elsewhere. We see dogs playing, we feel the grass beneath our feet, we hear a plane going overhead. Everything in the environment is so much more real, vast, and vivid than what's on the movie screen that we don't get so fascinated by it as easily. The movie is still there, but we're not bound by it. Our attention is free to roam beyond the film's storyline, because the context has become so much bigger than the dark theater. From this point of view, we can consider that freedom may not actually come from improving the story that's playing on the screen. In fact, it might come from placing whatever that story is, in all of its complexity, in a larger environment of awareness. Perhaps we don't have to improve the story we tell about ourselves, about life, in order to experience freedom."