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Complexity  ·  4143 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the one regret you can't work through?

Fifteen years ago, a combination of environmental stress and insomnia triggered a short psychotic episode which transformed the world from a shallow, comprehensible reality into a profound, mysterious and mystical eternity. For a fortnight, every word was a mountain of meaning to be scaled, every object a piece of an arcane universal puzzle, every thought led closer to a comprehensive theory of the world which lay tantalisingly out of reach. All cynicism dropped away and left only wide-eyed wonder at the incredible majesty of this planet - all the horrors in the world, the cruelty, the war, the suffering, had their justifiable place in the tapestry of existence and this understanding was profoundly reassuring.

Eventually this was brought to an end by medication. The regret? That it ended.