Psychedelics Revealed My Blindspots #psychodelics #spirituality #spiritualawakening

18 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts their first psychedelic experience while walking through Manhattan. They notice a familiar street and a small painting that, under the altered state, reveals a striking composition focused on the background’s negative space. This moment triggers an epiphany about the Korean art principle of "beauty of negative space," which they previously struggled to understand. The heightened perception allows them to see details they normally overlook, leading to a broader realization that many aspects of life are hidden blind spots that we fail to notice without a different perspective.

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The first time I took it, I remember that we were just like walking around the streets of Manhattan in New York, and there's this one street that I would always walk by on the way to work. This time around, I walked by it and then it's like there's like this little painting and I see it and I was like, wow, like I'm seeing something completely different even though I see this painting all the time. At that moment I was like, oh, this is what they mean by the beauty of negative space. When they talk about the essence of Korean art when I was a kid in school, they were always talking about the beauty of negative space. And I'm like, what does that even mean? Negative space is empty space, right? How is empty space beautiful? Beautiful, you know? Like, I don't get it. The moment I saw that painting, I got it. I was like, all I could focus on was the composition of the background, and I was like, this is, this is amazing. And I was like, wow, in this heightened, different state of mind, like, I can sort of process what I normally don't see. And like, it's almost on my blind spots, really. That experience helped me understand that, yeah, like, in life we just have so many blind spots, and we don't even know what we're missing out on, right?