Wonder and horror, equally counterpart to doubt

In ‘Man in Search of God’, Abraham Heschel writes : The greatest hindrance to knowledge is our adjustment to conventional notions, to mental clichés. Wonder or radical amazement, the state of maladjustment to words and notions, is, therefore, a prerequisite for an authentic awareness of that which is. One of many things that people like, and fear, about hallucinogens: they forcibly open the mind…