It all makes sense now

Climb the mountain you shall, but come down you must

Sunday at sunset, overlooking ‘Black Rock’ with my so much more than significant other ❤️

You know that feeling. You’re atop a mountain, cliff, hill, or perhaps even a skyscraper. You are flooded with a deep sense of perspective. You see (experience) whole-ness that evades your daily-ness. Problems you’ve been grappling with are often clarified. Your world, whatever that means, makes so much more sense (this could be tragic, beautiful, anything in between, or both at the same time!!!).

This is something of a mini—and far more accessible version—of what’s been dubbed the ‘Overview Effect’, a ‘cognitive shift’ reported by astronauts that can be described as "a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus" (lol!).

In short, the moment where an astronaut sees the ‘whole’ of the earth from afar and exclaims, with everything that is their energy-information (eco)system, “Holy Fuck!”

This experience is a difference that makes a difference.

And this is the type of difference so many of us (perhaps especially those in positions of power and influence) need.

A waking up, as it were, to new possibilities of (co)creative realisation.

But…

And this is the kicker, like the post come down from a psychedelic experience (whether induced by a compound or practice), we then return to our daily-ness. We have to return to our daily-ness.

So, the question becomes, how do we ‘carry forward’ the perspective we have attained? How does this difference make a difference beyond the moments atop the mountain? How do we integrate so that we can express new ways of being, doing and becoming?

Are you sitting with this question or something like it?

I reckon you might be.

If so, I invite a journey-ing together (starting simply in the comments).

With love as always.