Spiritual Humor

Humor is a kind of spirituality.

Rather than solely engage in the prescriptive nature of claiming epistemological certainties to spiritual truths, I believe it is a genuine path to play with the absurdities of self-awareness.

If there is a truth, it is not belabored, only internally recognized; a joke loses its humor once revealed, just like a magic trick.

Humor is often, if not exclusively, ironic; it may take form as an insight, a connection, an outcome unexpected…

Yet having always been before our eyes.

We are, in effect, laughing at ourselves, our hubris; amused at the death of our ignorance past.

Which is… unexpected given the inherent nature of ‘ego’?

(and why you can recognize a resilient person by their good humor)

The world becomes a little larger with the crumbling barriers of cognitive bias; the recognition of how little we know; and knowledge of how contrived the little we know that remains is. Amid the rubble, we are free to enjoy more the fruits from trees of wonderment, wisdom, and silliness that split the walls to pieces.