After a few hours of exploring this remarkable paradise, our attention was caught by a breathtaking sight—an electric green streak darting across the path in front of me. Before I could think, the snake was in my hands, grasped gently behind the head so it couldn’t bite.
One of my friends, a Honduran researcher, told me the snake was a nonvenomous species called a green racer. I released my grip so that it could move freely between my hands.
I put it down on the ground and gingerly stepped away, giving my Honduran colleague a chance to take a closer look at the animal, and I saw her eyes widen in alarm. As the snake glided into the undergrowth, she told me she had been wrong. It was not a harmless green racer. It was, in fact, a green palm pit viper: a species with highly dangerous hemotoxic venom.
As the numbness began to spread through my hand, I started beating my knuckles against a rock on the side of the path. But even after they were bloody and bruised, I felt nothing. Only the sense of numbness creeping up my arm, along with a growing sense of impending doom.
From this moment, the speed of the transformation in my hand was astonishing. Within a few seconds, feeling flooded back into my entire arm. Instead of numbness, my hand throbbed with agonizing pain—not from the snakebite, but from the bludgeoning I had given it on my way.
A positive feedback loop happens when the outcome of a process reinforces the inciting process, creating a chain of cause and effect. These loops are everywhere, occurring all the time. The more anxious I am about sleeping, the harder it gets to drift off, which only makes me more anxious. The more nervous I am about my dancing, the more embarrassing my moves become.
Once you start noticing feedback loops like this, you can't stop seeing them everywhere. They seem to provide a deep sense of understanding, cutting through the chaos of our world to reveal lines of causality that help everything to make sense.
When my body and mind had slipped into a loop that magnified a harmless snake encounter into a physical crisis, the impacts were not limited to my own body. The panic of one person became the panic of many, each reaction amplifying the next, until a single pulse of fear shapes the physical experience of reality around us.
It is difficult to predict which feedback loops will grow into immense planetary-scale forces and which will fade into insignificance. But the one pattern that consistently emerges is that they amplify the qualities of the energy from which they originate.
If eight billion people could wake up feeling authentically excited about the opportunity to engage in the countless regenerative solutions that can improve our health, wealth, fun, or fashion choices, then the loops that grow would hold an entirely different quality.
Taken from Nature’s Echo by Thomas Crowther. Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Crowther. Used by permission of Harper Horizon. harpercollinsfocus.com/harper-horizon
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