The crushing urgency of excruciating beauty finds the eye at lightspeed, signaling the brain that the overwhelming emotional intensity of ecstasy is encountered. Of course, many may never correctly interpret the impulses emanating from what is observed, as the facility for understanding this particular language was never acquired. Seeing the beauty in what others might find mundane is similar to having learned specialized subject matter that requires formal study. How does one love the sea if they don’t comprehend the body of water they are looking at?

So, do other eyes not see what your eyes see? They do not. Reality is defined by perceptions. Some things are hammered into people to act as hard code, such as common language, respect for authority, basic political precepts, and values, which unfortunately can include racism, bias, intolerance, and aggression towards things they don’t fully understand. Extraordinary beauty, though, is able to break through conditioning, and so things like nature are downplayed as irrelevant or dangerous to discourage people from witnessing too much of it, risking any hint of transcension.

Included here is exposure to psychedelics as they transport the traveler into a universe of incredibly beautiful complexity, which is experienced in an overwhelmingly emotional transposition of perspective. Breaking through the fear of the unknown arrives with the repercussions that the freshly realigned mind may no longer desire to return to a stance that is hostile to personal exploration. We learn to embrace the unknown when we understand that it is hidden in plain sight right before our senses. After that realization, the act of finding the new often brings us profound joy.

To deny our natural relationship with the myriad aspects of beauty is the denial of our basic humanity. I’ve posited previously my thoughts on how language is likely the only differentiator between us and the animal kingdom; well, it is part of language’s utility that we have the tools for singing about and describing those things that fall under the guise of beauty. Love is beautiful, and so are sunsets, rainbows, breaching whales, smiles, fields of flowers, the Milky Way, a gecko scrambling over moss, or a baby elephant with its mother. For all of these situations, humans planetwide have shared the poetry of celebrating our observations. We have reveled for centuries in the symbiotic entwining of us with beauty, used for remembering those special memories that bring us happiness. We need to learn to share more beauty and create more happiness.