Phenomenology does not just pose a problem to be solved or a question to be answered. A good phenomenological study almost always passes through a phase of wonder. Heidegger suggests that phenomenological thinking compels us into the basic disposition of wonder. What does this mean? Wonder has a dis-positional effect: it dis-locates and dis-places us. Wonder is not to be confused with amazement, marveling, admiration, curiosity, or fascination. For example, amazement is the inability to explain something that is unusual. An explanation can reduce the amazement. Curiosity tends to be superficial and passing. In contrast, wonder has depth. Fascination is being struck with an object of awe. And astonishment comes close to the experience of wonder. But, says Heidegger, “even astonishment does not fulfill what we intend with the word ‘wonder’ and what we are trying to understand as the basic disposition, the one that transports us into the beginning of genuine thinking” (1994, p. 143). There is no natural transition from a moment of wondering to a moment of questioning. Wonder does not rely on method and cannot simply be caused as when asking for answers in questioning. Just as inspiration may be the antecedent to writing poetry, so wonder may be the antecedent to inquiry. But just as between inspiration and poetry there lies the poetic talent and writing ability of the poet, so there lies insightfulness, knowledge, and narrative ability between wonder and phenomenological questioning.