Go Wonder! Wonders never cease!
Even in the measured and measureable worlds of the histories, the wheels and web of interconnections among all living beings are more and more being revealed by the scientists of "ordinary reality" - the everyday world of here and now which looks more and more non-ordinary, built of dark matter halos and shimmery quantum fluctuations. The more we know, the more mystery there is and is. The universal original shamans, and then the gnostic philosophers, and then the alchemists, had bone-deep knowings of the way things live and move and have their being, and those direct experiences (internal and external/subjective and objective) got to be so appealing in their effectiveness that others and then more and more others copied and codified reminders of these moments into religious systems. The original direct experiences were as scientific and artistic as they were religious. Now, as many of us are noticing, the sciences and philosophies and arts are coming closer together - like two and three circling together in agreement, with divine FUN playing in their midst!
I have lately been looking at astronomical events in wonder, delight, and amazement and taking shamanic journeys skyward and starward for inspiration. Today my attention suddenly turned to studies of our ancestors and deep ancestors closer by - relatives from the prehistories of our earth/universe. And I found myself even more in awe!