We are "squirrels". Causality can be "harnessed" rather than merely suffered, much like gravity can be resisted through evolved faculties.

When a squirrel runs on the top of a tree, it doesn't violate the laws of gravity. It is an organism with emergent properties and faculties that allow it to overcome certain physical limitations and constraints usually imposed on other entities and organisms by gravity (falling toward the center of the Earth).

Humans (and, I would add, intelligent animals to varying degrees) are the same. Our conscious mind has emergent properties and faculties that allow us to overcome certain limitations and constraints imposed on other entities by causality (i.e., we can decide for ourselves what to think and do, without being compelled toward a predefined future—without "falling toward" the gravitational center of causation, so to speak).

Causality acts on us, and we use it to act. But within our system/structure, it can be controlled, not suffered or imposed. There is an empirically observable and definite pocket of reality where causality does not work in the usual way—where things don't fall out of trees; they run on top of them.

There is no degree of separation between things, nor any magical element at play. Rather, there is simply an emergent "biological law" or "consciousness mechanism/law" that, under certain conditions, allows this upper law to be "immune," to a certain degree, from some aspects of the deeper law.

Think of your mental faculties in relation to the law of causality as analogous to a squirrel’s agility in relation to the law of gravity.

Does the squirrel "violate" gravity? That depends on how you conceive and define "violation," how rigidly you perceive gravity’s influence, and how deeply you understand gravity specifically—and the laws of physics in general. If you hold a simplistic, dogmatic view of gravity as merely "all things are attracted to the heaviest object," then the squirrel’s movement might seem impossible, magical, mysterious, paradoxical. But with a more nuanced understanding, you see that the squirrel is not defying gravity—it is operating within its constraints in a way that harnesses and redirects its effects.