The World Feels Flat for a Reason

Everything is meant to numb us

We live in a disenchanted age. Science explains the “how,” technology handles the “what,” and mystery has been pushed to the sidelines. Looking up at the stars with a sense of awe feels old-fashioned. Music has become dreary, repetitive, and over-sexualized. Everything gets reduced to data and efficiency: dating apps turn romance into algorithms, college degrees are just career investments, and even driving has been stripped of joy. Modern cars are loaded with beeping alerts, lane-assist nags, and screens that distract more than they help. We don’t even stop to marvel at the everyday “miracles” right in front of us. We carry a slim box in our pocket — made of metals, rocks, and silicon — that pulls information out of thin air through invisible vibrations and energy. It connects us instantly to someone else’s magic rock box on the other side of the world so we can watch cat videos and argue with strangers. Yet most of us never pause and think, “Wow… this is actually incredible.”

And it goes deeper. Our culture has become obsessed with comfort and control. Medications — whether for anxiety, depression, or “mood stabilization” — often numb the natural highs and lows of being human. Life gets regulated into a safe, flat range: never below a 4, never above a 6. We’re chemically encouraged not to feel too much joy, too much sorrow, too much passion, or too much wonder. The goal seems to be a steady, manageable numbness rather than the full range of what it means to be alive in a wild, supernatural world.

This disenchantment leaves people starving.

The Paranormal Hunger Returns

After years of being told the universe is nothing but blind matter and random chance, millions are craving something more. That hunger shows up in surprising places, including events like the Psi Games 2025 — a family-friendly conference and competition focused on psychic abilities such as remote viewing, precognition, and psychokinesis (telekinesis).

Other trends include:

• People experimenting with astral projection and out-of-body experiences (a good overview here).
• Endless fascination with aliens and UFOs, fueled by recent government disclosures and documentaries like The Age of Disclosure (2025).
• Renewed interest in artifacts like the Shroud of Turin, which continues to spark debate with new research and analysis.

These trends aren’t random. When the church and culture downplay the supernatural, people go searching elsewhere. A flat world creates a vacuum — and God abhors a vacuum.

A Forgotten Supernatural World

The early Christians didn’t live in a disenchanted world. They saw creation as charged with divine meaning. Angels were real. Spiritual powers were active. History was heading toward judgment and ultimate redemption.This comes through powerfully in the short New Testament letter of Jude. Jude urges believers to “contend for the faith” because sneaky false teachers were twisting God’s grace and denying future judgment. To make his case, he quotes an ancient Jewish writing called 1 Enoch:

“Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, to execute judgment on all…” (Jude 14-15)

1 Enoch (not in our Bible, but very influential in Jesus’ day) tells stories of the “Watchers” — fallen angels who left their proper place, taught humanity forbidden secrets, and unleashed chaos on the earth (see Jude 6). It paints a vivid picture of a world where spiritual rebellion has real, cosmic consequences.The early church lived with this awareness. Modern readers often find these parts strange or embarrassing because our worldview has been bleached of the supernatural. We turn miracles into metaphors and spiritual warfare into mental health language.

The Bible doesn’t dismiss the hunger for the supernatural — it gives us the right lens for it.

Practices like astral projection or seeking psychic powers often fall into the category of sorcery and occult activity that Scripture warns against (Deuteronomy 18, Galatians 5). They try to access spiritual realms on our own terms instead of through Christ. Some UFO phenomena may be misidentified technology… but others could be spiritual deception echoing the same fallen powers Jude describes.

The Shroud of Turin fascinates because it points to the greatest supernatural event in history: God becoming flesh, dying, and rising again. It reminds us that the spiritual and physical aren’t enemies — they meet in Jesus.

The danger today is clear. When we’re numb and bored, we’ll chase almost any spark of mystery. But counterfeit wonders often lead to deeper bondage.

I’ll be honest with you — I’ve struggled with this myself. For years in my youth (and even into adulthood), I downplayed anything that sounded too supernatural. I’d hear wild stories from Africa — miracles, deliverances, angelic encounters — and immediately dismiss them in my mind: “That’s not real. That can’t be true. It’s not possible here.” I realize now that my skepticism wasn’t always biblical discernment. A lot of it came from my own disenchanted Western worldview. I had quietly bought into the idea that real spiritual power only happened in Bible times, not today.

Sadly, the Western church has played a big part in this. We’ve basically nullified the Bible’s clear teachings on the supernatural. Instead of exercising real spiritual authority in the name of Jesus, we often copy dramatic exorcisms straight out of Hollywood movies — complete with the theatrics and hysteria. At the same time, many Christians openly mock moves of the Holy Spirit — whether it’s speaking in tongues, healing, or any kind of power encounter — as if the Spirit is embarrassing or outdated. We’ve traded biblical supernatural reality for a safe, intellectual faith that barely affects daily life.

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The Path to True Re-Enchantment

Real re-enchantment doesn’t come from chasing every paranormal trend on TikTok. It comes from recovering the Bible’s supernatural vision:

• Creation is personal. The stars, the mountains, even your smartphone aren’t just random matter — they’re part of a world spoken into existence by a good God (Psalm 19).
• There is an unseen realm. Spiritual forces are real, but Christ has authority over them all (Ephesians 6).
• You were made to feel deeply. The full range of human emotion — joy, grief, awe, love — reflects being made in God’s image, not a chemical imbalance to be medicated away.
• Jesus entered the mess. The incarnation shows God loves this physical world enough to step into it.

1 Enoch helps us taste the richer spiritual atmosphere the apostles breathed. While we don’t treat it as Scripture, it reminds us how vibrant the early Christian worldview really was.

Christians Must Start Living

If modern life feels gray, numb, and strangely empty, you’re not imagining it.

The answer isn’t more technology, more medication, or more occult experiments. It’s returning to the God who made the stars, who raised Jesus from the dead, and who invites us into a life of holy wonder.

What we need to be doing is simple but radical: retrain our eyes to see the world as it truly is — a supernatural creation pulsing with divine meaning. Stop rushing through the ordinary. Look at a tree or a thunderstorm and remember that the same God who spoke the universe into being sustains it moment by moment. Practice hospitality generously, because Scripture tells us that by welcoming strangers, some have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:2). Live with the quiet expectation that God’s messengers could show up in the most unexpected people.

Pray like the spiritual realm is real — because it is. Don’t just recite words; approach the throne of grace with boldness (Hebrews 4:16). Ask God to open your eyes to the unseen, to protect you from deception, and to fill you with holy awe. Expect Him to answer — sometimes through circumstances, sometimes through His Word, and sometimes through a sudden sense of His nearness.

But be warned: this will feel weird at first. When you stop numbing yourself, your emotions will come back strong — sometimes overwhelmingly so. But that’s part of being truly alive. Emotions are what compel us toward life, beauty, love, and worship. At the same time, every emotion is powerful enough to destroy us if we don’t control and hone them for the glory of God. Bring your raw joy, your deep grief, your burning anger, and your wild wonder to Christ. Let the Holy Spirit refine them so they drive you toward holiness instead of chaos.

Let yourself feel the highs and lows again. Worship with the confidence that heaven is watching and that spiritual realities are more solid than the screen in your hand.

The world was never as flat as we’ve been told. Jesus is Lord over every realm — seen and unseen — and that truth is far more exciting than any viral mystery.

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