Healthy Suspicion

There is more going on than meets the eye. What is hap­pen­ing is beyond pure rea­son. All logic insists that there should be noth­ing here. There is no rea­son that the uni­verse should exist. Some­thing else is hap­pen­ing. For as long as you live, you will need to be a bit of a detec­tive. The sum of life is greater than its parts. That is very dis­turb­ing. What­ever it is, it is obvi­ous and hid­den at the same time. You are going to have to have an informed but open-to-the-gaps approach (faith).

As a coun­selor, I know that there is always more to the story than I am first being told. I am patient. I wait. Sooner or later, the pieces start com­ing together. After many ses­sions, the miss­ing piece is found. What began as a small dis­com­fort opens the door to the oppor­tu­nity to see the big­ger pic­ture. Self-discovery is a jour­ney as far reach­ing as space travel.

The ques­tion is always about the big pic­ture. Why so many stars and galax­ies? Why does the earth that feels so much like home present so many mys­ter­ies? How can any­one account for intu­ition, pre­mo­ni­tions, and voices in their head? What appears to be so sim­ple is actu­ally infi­nitely com­plex. Reduc­tion­ism is futile — an over-simplification at best. Life is more than atoms, mol­e­cules, tis­sues, and enzymes.

Never take any­thing for granted. Look behind the cur­tain. All actions and thoughts are sus­pect. Look closely, they point to some­thing greater and com­pletely inde­fin­able. Approach every­thing with a healthy sus­pi­cion: gov­ern­ment, acad­e­mia, media — even your own exis­tence. You have a mys­tery to solve — but more likely a Mys­tery to meet.

Pay atten­tion. Con­sider the clues care­fully. What you are try­ing to find may take a life­time, or it might be that it was always right in front of you.