We imagine a wild theology that doesn’t limit itself to Plato and Aquinas but also consults the wisdom of rainbow trout and sea turtles, seasons and tides.*
Brian McLaren

We recognise the achievement when we learn as much as we can
within some field or domain or speciality;
It is something greater still to learn from someone else’s.
Although we cannot possibly learn everything,
Something quite extraordinary becomes available to us:
The present emerging ecology of minds and psyches,
our availability to each other,
and our ability to dream one another’s dreams
and experience one another’s biographies
are part of the interpenetrating fractal wave
of the current time, psyche, and memory.
We are being rescaled to planetary proportions,
as we become fractal resonant
and intimate with our own depths.**
We are learners of the universe.
Perhaps there is a learning-line for each of us,
A path of learning that chooses and calls us
when we open ourselves to curiosity and discovery,
Lines crossing the boundaries and barriers
we ordinarily lay down:
“Blessed are the curious for
they will have adventures.”*

*Brian McLaren’s God Unbound; quote anonymous);
**Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life.