We are entering the new. The new is unknown, but it cannot be known unless we deeply know the old.

We cannot go back to the no longer. The before was never normal.

We’ve seen too much, we know too much. We have not seen enough, we do not know enough.

These are just some of the paradoxes we face. We can understand paradox in syntax, but to really know it, like in our bodies, we must use our nondual, mystical mind and just accept that paradox is unknowable and absurd and wholly knowable and utterly sane at the same time.

This Rumi poem seems to fit:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.

We can only know ourselves by going within; we can only know ourselves by reaching outward in community. These upcoming weeks, we’ll get into paradox a bit more. We will tease you and disrupt you and hopefully expand you — lead you inward to go back outward. See you Sunday, virtually or in person!

We mention several books in this episode. Look them up and stack them on your bedside!

Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus

Derek Delgaudio, AMORALMAN

J. Pittman McGehee, The Paradox of Love

Plato, The Allegory of the Cave

John A. Sanford, Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language

Carl Jung: Dream Mandala from the Red Book