MINDFULNESS | PSYCHEDELICS
Psychedelics and the Rediscovery of Awe
How psychedelics rekindle curiosity
I heard an analogy recently that really resonated with me. The speaker likened the experience of psychedelics to the paths that form along snow-covered sledding hills.
After a few sleds travel down the hill, pathways begin to form in the snow. The more sleds that slide down that hill, the deeper the grooves become. Eventually, the only way to travel down that hill will be through those grooves. They grow deeper and more solidified with each person that careens down. But psychedelics are to life what a fresh sheet of snow is to the grooves that sledders traverse.
In life, it can be easy to fall into routines. The older we grow, the better we become at blocking out all of the stimuli around us in interest of what we subconsciously deem necessary. In blocking out the unnecessary, though, we can deprive ourselves of the awe-inspiring beauty that exist all around us. We stop looking at the caterpillars on the ground and the remarkable buildings in the cities and the birds in the sky and focus instead on whether we’ll be clocking in to work on time.
The paths we walk and the routines we follow are decided by habit. Curiosity stops dictating the avenues in life that we walk along…
