Deep Reads: Valley of Bewilderment

What if confusion isn’t failure, but initiation? In the Valley of Bewilderment, we lose our bearings so something deeper can find us.

For myself and many around me looking out the window and into the world right now, there is a deep, honest sense of I don't know.

In Attar’s “Conference of the Birds”, the Valley of Bewilderment—also translated as Wonderment or Perplexity—marks the point where the seeker becomes overwhelmed, lost in the vastness of reality. Here, the rational collapses. …