Good morning beloved reader, I’m supposed to be on hiatus, but I love to play with words and wanted to share. For me, experiencing totality of the solar eclipse felt as though it activated a sixth sense in human beings — as the event moved across the path of totality from Mexico to Maine, swaths of people experiencing the same natural phenomenon at the same moment in time.
I just finished Michael Pollan’s book on the recent psychedelic research, “How to Change Your Mind,” and one of my key takeaways is that the experience of awe is so good for disintegrating the ego and helping us feel a part of something bigger. And it connects us to each other and to nature. It’s what happens during psychedelic trips and to longtime meditators. There was all that yesterday, drug-free. 😊
I found myself choking up, just like they said I would! Which bothered me to no end, but there you have it. It was a profound experience even here on Long Island, without totality. How is it that two celestial bodies, so different in size, should appear the same to us, that one can cover the other?
So glad you got to witness the eclipse. And to sense into that impact of so many others joining in at the same time. What a wonder, a profound connection. I did not see this one, never seen a total eclipse, but I have seen partials. A true reminder of impermanence. Nature is the one who always has the final say.
I just finished Michael Pollan’s book on the recent psychedelic research, “How to Change Your Mind,” and one of my key takeaways is that the experience of awe is so good for disintegrating the ego and helping us feel a part of something bigger. And it connects us to each other and to nature. It’s what happens during psychedelic trips and to longtime meditators. There was all that yesterday, drug-free. 😊
I found myself choking up, just like they said I would! Which bothered me to no end, but there you have it. It was a profound experience even here on Long Island, without totality. How is it that two celestial bodies, so different in size, should appear the same to us, that one can cover the other?
It was a moving experience and I love the words “baptism by eclipse.”
So glad you got to witness the eclipse. And to sense into that impact of so many others joining in at the same time. What a wonder, a profound connection. I did not see this one, never seen a total eclipse, but I have seen partials. A true reminder of impermanence. Nature is the one who always has the final say.