It is profoundly important to the human experience. It is not a state of enlightenment or spiritual awakening, you are not connecting with God or the universe on a new dimension, but rather you are simply seeing the world from your own eyes, unobstructed, for the first time. You are leaving behind what you’ve been taught and the rules you’ve been told exist. It is a powerful moment and thus can be frightening and disturbing. It is the realization that everything you know is suddenly incorrect or misguided and is not easy to swallow, but it is necessary for growth.
Tag: perspective
From the obvious to the subtle
Young minds move so fast. It isn’t until you’re a bit older and wiser that you begin to take notice of the subtle and seemingly simple aspects of nature and humanity. The world becomes truly a spectacle once you gain this appreciation.
UPDATE 2014-03-16: Another way to explain this might be to imagine that young minds only absorb data that is obvious. They see the spikes in the spectrum but ignore or filter out the troughs. As we get older we become more interested in the troughs because that’s where all the really interesting data lies. And consequently, depending on how interested you really are, this is where enlightenment would lie as well. It just depends how deep you go and how many troughs you explore.