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Title: The Capacity to Wonder
Tags: wonder; mysticism
Blog Entry: In this age of science and technology, wherein humanity thinks he can explain almost everything under the sun, we have slowly lost the capacity to wonder. This experience of wonder, now regarded as childish, once filled our souls with beauty and mystery and oneness with the cosmos, has now been forgotten When pocahontas asks, "How high does the sycamore grow?", we usually shrug off the question as nonsense. "Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?", Pocahontas asks again and we have little or no capacity to understand the wonder of the question. Yet we have all but lost our feeling and sense of wonder and gave in to the power of science where we think we can explain and predict and control everything. Unknowingly, together with the loss of our capacity to wonder, we have lost our senses in participating in the beauty and mystery of the Kosmos. Yet there are still many things that mechanical science cannot and can never hope to answer given its old paradigms. For example, science cannot explain how the simple cell division of the fertilized egg eventually turn into a full human being with brain and heart and muscle. Science cannot even understand illness as its reductionism looks only at the physical body and not the emotional, mental, and spiritual life of the person. Yes, there are still a lot of reasons to wonder. Try painting with all the colors of the wind! :wink: