Abraham Maslow says that self-actualizing people are fascinated by mystery. They do not avoid it in favor of clarity and certainty. This is another feature of personal depth. Mystery honors the incomprehensible depth that resides in every finite reality. We can feel drawn to the mystery of how the world works, to what underlies what we see, and to what comes next in history, ours and the world’s. This is an attraction to what is emerging. Teilhard de Chardin spoke admiringly of a “mysterious sense of the future … an attraction to the future as an organism progressing to the unknown.” We feel drawn to emergent properties of earth and ourselves that fit no categories yet discovered. We futurists may find that we are upstarts not quite at home in structures, institutions, or limited worldviews. We feel immortal evolutionary longings in the midst of change and end. Perhaps those longings are the wake of the ferry called Divine Plan.

- David Richo, The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them