{"id":1871,"date":"2022-06-30T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2022-10-25T21:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T04:25:56","slug":"mad-as-a-hatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2022\/06\/30\/mad-as-a-hatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad As a Hatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Mad As a Hatter<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHave I gone mad?\u201d
\nThe Hatter asks.
\n“I\u2019m afraid so,\u201d
\nAlice replies.
\n\u201cYou\u2019re entirely
\nbonkers.
\nBut I\u2019ll tell you
\na secret.
\nAll the best
\npeople are.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you
\na secret,
\nbut first
\nlet\u2019s examine
\nyour theology.<\/p>\n

Does it have
\nroom for a
\nWonderland,
\nwhere \u201cslithy toves
\ngyre and gimble
\nin the wabe?\u201d<\/p>\n

And you can
\n\u201crest awhile
\nby the Tumtum tree,
\nlost in uffish thought?”<\/p>\n

Or have all
\nthe rabbit holes
\ninto The Mystery
\nbeen shovelled full of
\ndeep and serious
\nthoughts,<\/p>\n

meditations and
\ninvocations and
\nincantations
\nmeant to be
\npondered,
\nimagination
\nsquandered on
\nthe fear of
\nmissing out
\nby virtue of
\na surfeit of
\nlightheartedness?<\/p>\n

I promised you
\na secret, and
\nLewis Carroll
\nknew it:<\/p>\n

Unless your
\ntheology, your
\nphilosophy, your
\ncosmology,
\nare free of the
\nhegemony of
\nruthless Reason,<\/p>\n

you have yet
\nto unearth the
\ntreasure of
\nWho You Really Are.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Bert Ferranco; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Mad As a Hatter \u201cHave I gone mad?\u201d The Hatter asks. “I\u2019m afraid so,\u201d Alice replies. \u201cYou\u2019re entirely bonkers. But I\u2019ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.\u201d I\u2019ll tell you a secret, but first let\u2019s examine your theology. Does it have room for a Wonderland, where \u201cslithy toves gyre and gimble […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t