Mystery is the oldest human technology for awakening inner life — the quiet space where intuition forms, desire clarifies, and meaning begins — so the modern world eliminates it by replacing every unknown with noise, information, or instant answers. In practice this means you rarely encounter silence, depth, or ambiguity; instead you are surrounded by constant commentary, analysis, entertainment, and explanation that flatten every experience into something literal, predictable, and safe. When mystery disappears, imagination withers, and without imagination you cannot sense new possibilities or rewrite the story of your life — you become trapped inside the visible and the measurable. Men lose the capacity for inner vision; women lose the capacity for inner knowing — both become more logical but less alive, more informed but less wise. The blade cuts deepest when you see that the world didn’t kill mystery accidentally — it killed it because mystery produces sovereignty, and sovereign people don’t follow scripts.