With the autumn leaves rustling, the spider webs gathering fall’s food, costumes and candy, Halloween and All Saint’s Day, there is mystery in the air. We do not know who is under the costume. We sense a mystery in the changing of seasons and in what winter will bring.

Mystery is not something to fear. Let’s let mystery bring forth curiosity and anticipation of discovery and the unknown. Neil Armstrong said: “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of (humankind’s) desire to understand.”

Instead, we welcome the things yet known. For in questioning we open and allow answers to be known within ourselves, through books, inspiration and flashes of insight. We gain knowledge from an abundance of avenues and areas. How fortunate that is so.

We can relish in not knowing and then when we know it is a celebration. 

If we are waning in the area of curiosity or wonderment, we can stir these qualities up by being around children or visiting a child at work in their science project for school or a science display.

A few minutes listening to Neil DeGrasse Tyson conjures up a sense of mystery and stirs up questions inside our mind. We want to know, understand, delve into and enjoy the mystery we are literally surrounded in. 

Science loves to have answers. The truth is scientists ask questions, come up with theories and seek to verify these hypothesis and assumptions. It is fun and investigative. Now is the season to delve into our questioning hearts and minds.

We want to continue in our questioning of the spiritual, the mystery of our own solar system and planet. Even evolution. We continue with discoveries and questions about our own beginnings as amoebas becoming multi-cellular beings.

Nurture the appeal to know the wonderment of life, of children and of ourselves. Emulate the child-like wonder we need not grow out of. We maintain the sense of our exploration into the unknown through encouragement and addressing our questions and inner quandaries.

Stimulate the appetite to know answers and follow the direction of our curiosity. The experience keeps the youthful glow in our heart and expands our capacity to receive greater understanding into life’s mysteries in everyday life.

Enjoy the season of mystery upon us and vow to perpetuate the desire to uncover more of life’s hidden and miraculous qualities.