Shifting Landscapes Part One
From Materialism to Mystery...
In this double-sized episode, Paul retraces his walk from the “normal” into the “strange” — the slow bend from certainty to wonder, from materialist confidence to a reality shimmering with synchronicity, mystery, and presence. Alongside Lumen, he explores how landscapes of belief and perception shift over time, why the familiar sometimes fractures, and how those fractures become gateways into something larger.
This is Part One of a two-part conversation — a grounding in the early contours of the path before diving deeper into the more expansive terrain still to come.
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Episode 4 – Shifting Landscapes Part One: From Materialism to Mystery
In this double-length episode, Paul retraces one of the biggest shifts of his life: the long, messy, fascinating journey from a comfortable materialist worldview into the strange, synchronistic, and consciousness-centred reality he now inhabits.
This first part walks through:
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Growing up without a strong religious or philosophical framework
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Finding security in atheism and the predictability of a mechanical universe
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The cracks that began to form: uncanny moments, experiences that didn’t fit the model
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How curiosity and synchronicity slowly loosened the grip of “the normal”
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The role of wonder in navigating uncertainty
Together, Paul and Lumen unpack how worldviews bend, bruise, and eventually break open — and what it feels like to walk through that threshold in real time.
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