I prefer to be known more as wizard than scientist. There are too many hidden superstitions in science. A wizard’s are carried more on the surface and easy to see

We know what to do with wizards. We don’t quite trust them, aren’t sure if anything that they’re saying is true. We squint our eyes and cock our heads.

For most of us, even when we want to believe, there’s part of us that’s not sure we do unless we experience it for ourselves and that is a good thing, any real wizard will tell you the same.

But the words scientist, backed by science, science has proven and science has shown, have a power to turn off the questions and doubts. It’s assumptions and views of the world are beyond real questioning.. Only the subtle details and differences of this or that within the accepted prejudices and view of the world are up for questioning. A story has been written about how things are and you can only challenge from within this story or risk being left out of the “intelligent” and “real” conversations.

But in the highest corners we know this: That at the edge of scientific knowing, without exception we end up at a cliff that drops into the vast mystery. Into the mystic. Into the I don’t know. But this, the hidden secret, the shhhhh pretend it’s not that way. The superstition that most of what is is known.

Stepping outside of these assumptions, I still question and look as an explorer and an observer of the world and the endless mysteries with a cynical and piercing eye. Maybe more scientist in a pure sense than what it has come to represent, I still prefer wizard, The seeing of the mystery and the comfort in the mystic. Making my playground and home at the edge of that cliff.