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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