We are reading "Sea People" by Christina Thompson, who is also the author of "Come On Shore and We Will Kill You and Eat You All", a story of the Maori people of New Zealand and of her marriage to a Maori man. We are also viewing "How Jesus Became God", a Great Course by Prof. Bart Ehrman, a specialist in Biblical and early Christian history. Both works have plenty of potential to picture and sympathize with mind-blowing ideas, facts and adventures. As if that isn't enough, we get The Week, a weekly magazine that we learned about from our friend, Ken. He is a worldly and astute man who knows what is mind-expanding and he told us to try The Week.
What is mind-blowing? It is learning about something that is riveting, maybe impossible but is true or seems to be. I suppose if a person gets a notification of winning an enormous amount of money, the news can be mind-blowing. Maybe if one of those waves of flaming hot lava flows across your house and property, you would find that mind-blowing. If you know your Bible well and then find people scattered all over the Pacific and everything you can think of throws your beliefs and understanding into a muddle of confusion, you would experience a topsy-turvy mind, world, confusion.
If you have been living happy, minding your own business, something may happen either in the larger world, your neighborhood or just in your thinking, that stuns, that radiates, that grips your mind. It may help to know that you are not the first person such a thing has happened to and that taking things somewhat slowly, you will probably come to terms with the new picture, the new view and be better for it. Many people, professionals and others, have pictured having humans contact creatures from other places than our Earth. That could be mind-blowing. It might be mind-blowing if they are much like humans and will probably be mind-blowing if they aren't.
I have a suspicion that the modern world and human development may create more mind-blowing experiences than we expect. As thinking people communicate and learn, they can abruptly or slowly experience very surprising events, facts and notions.
