🌿 The Wonder Land — Episode 131: The Lingering Mystery

“My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.”

— Terence McKenna

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✨ In This Episode

Alex and Amanda linger in the soft, sensual pulse of not knowing. They explore curiosity as something alive and playful, not a problem to be solved but a space to be entered.

This conversation invites you to savor the mystery—the magic trick you never want to ruin by explanation. It’s about the pleasure of asking why just to feel wonder ripple through you, not to find closure.

They explore:

​🌸 Curiosity without conclusion — whispering “I wonder why…” not to be right, but to taste possibility.

​🌀 Maslow’s two types of curiosity — deficiency-based vs. being-oriented, or curiosity born from lack vs. curiosity born from awe.

​🌿 The role of language — how words can both reveal and limit the vastness of what we sense.

​🔥 The imaginative “why” — freeing curiosity from the need to tether itself to truth.

Through stories, laughter, and philosophical play, Alex and Amanda remind us that mystery is not an obstacle—it’s the playground of wonder.

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🌊 This conversation is for you if:

You’ve grown weary of needing answers.

You’re ready to feel the beauty of unknowing.

You long to meet life not with certainty, but with delight.

Come linger with us—

in the shimmer between sense and surrender,

where curiosity itself becomes connection.

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✨ Playful Invitation

Try it yourself:

Ask “why” ten times and answer each one with nonsense.

Why is the sky blue? Because whales keep painting it each morning.

Because the sun borrowed the ocean’s clothes.

Because blue hides better from giants than green.

Let your imagination be the teacher.

Let not knowing be the gift.

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💫 Closing Reflection

Mystery was never meant to be solved.

It was meant to be lived—like a poem that changes each time you read it.

The next time you feel the tug to figure it out, pause.

Ask a gentler kind of why—one that doesn’t need solving.

One that lets you linger.

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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.

And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be.

And what it wouldn’t be, it would.”

— Lewis Carroll

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🌿 Show Notes

Today we explore the veil of self-identification and how to watch it drop. What is going on when it is apparent and how can we play with its movement? Listen in to find out how direct contact is automatic when the veil drops, and recognize the dynamics at play.

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Have thoughts or questions? Want to share how the episode landed for you?

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🌿 Work With Us

Explore deeper with our coaching, courses, and creative containers:

Amanda → uncoveryspace.com

Alex → canaimacoaching.com

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🌿 Show Notes — The Wonder Land, Episode 126: River & Wave

In this conversation, Alex and Amanda explore the many forms of flow—how it shows up in seasons of creativity, and how we can trust its different shapes. Sometimes flow feels steady and inevitable, like a river reshaping everything in its path. Other times it feels cyclical and rhythmic, like a wave transmitting energy without having to carry it all.

We also reflect on the “frozen” seasons, when flow feels absent or delayed, and how these pauses are not failures but holding spaces—waiting rooms where life gathers itself before returning as inspiration.

✨ Key threads you’ll hear:

• What We Mean by Flow — the difference between creating from pressure and creating from inspiration.

• The River — matter in motion, a current that embodies direction, inevitability, and momentum.

• The Wave — energy in motion, a rhythm that moves through us without needing to be carried.

• Metaphors for Creative Seasons — how both river and wave are natural forms of flow.

• Frozen Seasons — honoring the stillness that holds hidden life.

We close with an invitation:

• When do you feel like the river, pulled into your inevitable course?

• When do you feel like the wave, transmitting energy without moving yourself?

• And how might noticing the difference help you trust your own rhythm of flow?

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🌀 Let’s Connect

Have thoughts or questions? Want to share how the episode landed for you?

📧 Reach us at: podcast.thewonderland@gmail.com

🌿 Work With Us

Explore deeper with our coaching, courses, and creative containers:

Amanda → uncoveryspace.com

Alex → canaimacoaching.com