The Great Disappointment You've imagined it a thousand times. The moment when everything changes. Light pouring through the crown of your head. Cosmic unity flooding your awareness. The dissolution of self into infinite radiance. Perhaps you've pictured yourself sitting in perfect stillness when suddenly the veil parts and you see, truly see, for the first time. The colours become impossibly vivid. Time stops. You weep with the unbearable beauty of existence. Everything you'v

The Oracle at Delphi proclaimed Socrates the wisest man in Athens. His response? "I know that I know nothing." This wasn't humility theatre or false modesty. Socrates had discovered something the supposed experts of Athens had forgotten: the admission of ignorance opens the door wisdom keeps locked for those who believe they already possess the key. You recognise this paradox in your own life. The moment you think you've mastered something, you stop learning. The instant you