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The Sacred Triad: Questions That Remake the World

  • Writer: Amber Howard
    Amber Howard
  • Jun 10
  • 3 min read

Some questions aren’t just questions — they are invitations. Portals. Riddles that, if we sit with them, can loosen the stitches of our reality and lead us back to wonder.


There are three such questions that I recently discovered and I keep returning to. Not to answer, but to live with. Not as curiosities, but as a practice. A sacred triad. And every time I ask them, something ancient in me wakes up.


Who decides what we’re allowed to know?


This is the question that peels back the veil. Who holds the keys? Knowledge is never neutral; it is shaped, sculpted, even policed. There are always gatekeepers — governments, religions, media empires, universities, tech giants. Even families. Every era has its “authorized truths,” its punished heresies.


Who wrote the history books?Who funds the research?Who licenses the healers, teachers, guides?Who shapes the algorithms that feed us news, ideas, and possibilities?

Sometimes the hand is obvious, sometimes it’s invisible. But always, it’s there. And the closer any truth comes to liberating us, the more fiercely it’s protected.


What have we been denied not because it wasn’t real — but because it would set us free?And who, exactly, benefits from our forgetting?


What if the world is far more wondrous than we’ve been taught?


Here’s the invitation to awe — and to rebellion.


What if the world is wider, wilder, more numinous than the boundaries of official knowledge? What if healing can happen in ways science has no language for? What if ancient civilizations, erased from textbooks, held technologies of spirit and earth we can’t yet imagine? What if the universe wants to speak, but we’ve been trained to hear only static?


There are languages we have forgotten — not just those of people, but of stones, rivers, stars. There is intelligence in the land itself, waiting for us to remember how to listen. Wonder isn’t childish — it’s revolutionary. Maybe the greatest conspiracy is not that magic isn’t real, but that we’ve been told to mistrust our own sense of wonder.

What if wonder is the first act of healing? What if it’s the opening move in our own emancipation?


What don’t we know?


This one humbles me. Not ignorance — but the hubris of thinking we already know.

There are maps never drawn, wisdom burned or buried, ways of being human that have been banished from possibility. There are technologies (of consciousness, of cooperation, of healing) that exist — not lost, but erased. Labeled as primitive, impossible, or dangerous.


There are songs in our blood, dreams sent by ancestors, and stories in our bones. They wait for us to stop dismissing what doesn’t fit the official narrative. We don’t know what we don’t know. And that’s not a flaw — that’s the opening.


Let’s Go Deeper


These questions are not mere curiosities — they are initiation. To ask them with honesty is to risk dismantling your worldview. To court disruption. To let the walls come down.

Think of the Library of Alexandria — a world’s worth of memory, burned for power. Of Indigenous cosmologies outlawed. Of ceremonies and healers silenced. Of histories rewritten in every colonized land. Who benefits when you forget your own inheritance?

We are taught knowledge is property, truth is credentialed, only the authorized may speak the sacred. But wisdom is your birthright. What truths did you come into this world to remember?


Wonder is not naïve. It’s radical receptivity. It’s an openness that our ancestors, mystics, and children all share — until it’s trained out of us for the sake of productivity and profit. The world isn’t built on scarcity, but on abundance and synchronicity, on a sacred design that’s always inviting us back.


We don’t know what lives in the depths of the ocean, or the inner rooms of the human heart. We don’t know how many ways the world is alive and speaking.Maybe the greatest unknown is ourselves — who we could be, unafraid and undivided.


An Invitation


These questions aren’t here for tidy answers. They’re here to unchain us from inherited limitations. To re-map our reality.


Who decides what we’re allowed to know?What if the world is far more wondrous than we’ve been taught?What don’t we know?


These are not ideas to be debated, but paths to be walked.They are invitations to unlearning, to wild remembering, to radical belonging.


So, let yourself ask.Let yourself wonder.Let yourself get lost in the beautiful, ancient, sacred terrain that was never truly lost — just waiting for you to come looking.


Follow the wonder. It knows the way.

 
 
 

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