Just because we have created some explanation or description of a phenomenon… doesn’t mean the magical nature we first perceived in wonder is not implicit in the phenomenon. Language flattens reality into tokenized offerings whose dimensional diversity is insufficient to contain or communicate the actual nature of phenomenon.

Indeed, explanations and descriptions carry the purpose of replacing our sense of the miraculous with a sense of mastery. But which miracles have we mastered? As a species, we can barely manipulate silverware without causing a crisis.

I believe in magical wonders because I experience and express them, I just doubt the explanations, the interpretations… and the descriptions… which are, too often, really interested in appearing authoritative rather than delivering insight and understanding…