This week, I’ve been appreciating wonder — that childlike state of curiosity that reawakens our senses and lets us see the world with fresh eyes and deeper appreciation.

Maybe you’ve felt it too with the recent Beaver Supermoon— an uncommonly brilliant phenomenon shining down on all of us, something everyone can access and share. It’s a reminder that the world is full of miracles, just as available for consumption as the steady stream of media competing for our attention.

Not to get down on media — it’s one way we share the wondrous. Lately, I’ve been listening to a podcast called The Telepathy Tapes. It explores “the origins of consciousness and the unexplained abilities of ESP through science, experience, and human story.” In the episode I heard most recently, researchers propose something radical: that consciousness — not matter — may be the foundation of the universe.

If that’s true, everything we experience isn’t built up from physics to biology to thought, but out from awareness itself. It flips the traditional scientific pyramid — and with it, our understanding of what it means to be alive.

One implication struck me deeply: connection over separation. If consciousness is the foundation of being, then perhaps our sense of separateness is more illusion than truth. We may all be drawing from the same vast field of awareness — a kind of invisible web linking every heart and mind.

That could explain the deep intuition we feel with loved ones, the wordless bond with animals, those startling coincidences that feel more like messages than accidents. Maybe those are our true superpowers.

The series also features scientists who pursued these questions despite serious professional risk — people like Dr. Diane Hennessy Powell, who lost her medical license for publishing research on ESP, and Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, whose TED talk was banned for challenging mainstream science. Their courage reminds me that truth-seeking often asks us to trade comfort for conviction.

Especially moving was the story involving Lawrence Anthony, the South African conservationist known as “The Elephant Whisperer.” Upon his death, more than 20 of his rescued elephants traveled for days to stand vigil outside his home — and returned each year on the anniversary. No humans guided or facilitated this, though they did witness and marvel at it.

These moments remind us that, even in today’s world, the greatest discoveries aren’t always technological. Sometimes they’re felt — in intuition, in relationship, in wonder. And when we let ourselves tune into that wonder, gratitude naturally follows — not as a checklist, but as a living current running through everything.

Here’s to your connecting to your own sense of wonder, and the flow of gratitude it sets in motion.