In this episode Alex and Amanda discuss the distance created by trying to explain and describe the world.

To try to understand is in a way to minimize, to reduce down to the units which can be captured by our limited knowledge.

The Great Incomprehensible is then our biggest joys and our biggest tragedies. Any attempt to put them into words - to reduce - seen as futile and unnecessary.

One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

Carl Jung