Questions That Re-write Your Fate

The Pandora’s Oracle

Questions can be frightening. They can be painful. People avoid them. They are afraid to open a Pandora’s box. I once invoked my students to ask their parents — “Why do you bring me to this world?”. That very question changed the way they see and question reality itself. It moved them, it shaped them, and it continues to make and re-make the person they are. I shall not discuss their findings here, but if that question perturbs you whether in delight or in distaste, or you find yourself attempting to dismiss, marginalize or avoid it altogether, you might have just touched if not opened a Pandora’s box. This is just an example of a Pandora’s question.

Prophecy is merely an inspiring question leading to a revelation. — Re: God’s answering, 2009–07.01

Questions are divine Oracles. Like the lamp of the gods, they can be so bright as to guide us or it can blind us. It can help us, heal us or it can hurt us. Questions can be loaded, poisoned or weaponized. They can also be protective and be used to break delusions. Questions are spells in the grimoire of political wizards. Crafting the right questions can set the mass in trance, opening the gates of the heaviest guarded walled cities and lay arms to rest from the hands of the most hostile hordes. Questions can be tooled to spark seduction to win a heart. It…