Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries

Navigating mystery humbles us, reminds us with every step that we don’t know everything, are not, in fact, the masters of all.

when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.

but—maybe there’s useful and un-useful uncertainty.

Life doesn’t feel certain, but it feels succulent. Life doesn’t feel assured, but it feels vivacious.

Without uncertainty we have mission statements not myth. We have polemic not poetry, sign not symbol.

This is absolutely the best position to navigate the mysteries from. Over time one mystery reveals itself, and then delightfully another opens.

The useful is the invitation to depth that myth always offers. Because if there’s uncertainty, then we are no longer sure quite what’s the right way to behave. And there’s potential in that, an openness to new forms.