RJR: I think that the lack of contact is causing issues for everyone – although too much contact is an issue for many (and not enough space). I think the many issues of our current times are bringing up stuff for everyone for different reasons. The elderly are feeling that they do not want to live out the rest of their lives like this. Young people are missing out on social interactions with their peers at school and university. Anyone in a relationship, or looking to find one, is online communicating and adapting to a new form of intimacy. Humans are capable of adapting – we do it all of the time. In what ways do you think our species is adapting at this time?

NS: It is probably too early to say with much certainty, but we have certainly been adapting in the past nine weeks to being, in more ways than one, “socially distant”. We have become used to not being able to see friends and family in the flesh, and to not being able to touch or get close to another human being. And I suppose, as when one loses the use of one sense and the others become more acute as a result, in the present circumstances perhaps our minds are becoming more enquiring and more sensitive and more attuned to the universal life.

RJR: I find it so fascinating – how much we do adapt. I have had a bad injury for the last six weeks in lockdown. My entire being adapted to keep me upright. It has been an exhausting process, but a fascinating one. I was allowed to visit my chiropractor today, for the first time in all of this time. With us both head to foot protected from each other, she clicked my tibia head back to where it belonged. My body is now going through a process of healing. On the ride home in an Uber – I have had no car since mine was written off in a hit and run at the beginning of February (to which I have I had adapted) – I had a miracle meeting with the 34-year-old Romanian beautiful human being who is experiencing this period of time as a great awakening. He excitedly shared with me what he is thinking and feeling, and what he is learning from this time. While reassuring him that what he is going through is for his greater good, I also offered him some names of books to buy to help him understand what he is going through. I left his car feeling so much lighter from the exchange. We are all connected, we are all as one. There is so much to learn from this time – if we truly and deeply adapt.