Tastes of magic
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
7 sounds at once, wide-eyed, the fly comes by, layering visuals, almost all senses but forgot taste… I imagined I could see visuals behind me and saw a 360 degree view; became the room; I thought I saw a light in front of me in the sky (out the window), but I broke trance and it was gone.
We need some relief from all that strength; to be for a moment in that timeless, spaceless, primal place which has no responsibility, which isn’t going anywhere. We need to stand outside ourselves and experience the flow of life, the Dionysian energy.
Robert A. Johnson • Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy
When we were very young, our bodies told us that we could break through the constraints of the mundane world and seize a more colorful, wild life for ourselves. As we grew older, we caught glimpses of lives that looked more exciting and full of promise than ours, through a million shiny portholes, and we began to define joy as something that lived
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