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0 pointsgiraffe_lady2y ago0 comments

Eh wisdom is experiential and a lot of it sounds mundane and even cliche when stated straightforwardly.

"We're all interconnected," "live life in the moment," etc are boring and cliche we've all heard them a lot. But they are also profound & wise and you could spend hours thinking on their details and consequences and how to apply them to your life.

The wisdom is the experience of doing it, not saying or hearing the words. Psychedelics can give people insight into that experienced value and grow a resolve to apply them to their lives.

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BobbyJo2y ago

This is something I come back to frequently in my life. It's like that moment when something your parents told you over and over again as a child suddenly makes sense.

I think the distinction is process vs initiative. You can teach people processes easily, but only experience can generate the initiative that conjures the process in the moments it is useful or necessary. Experience is what integrates the process into the person.

c_crank2y ago

I'm not sure I would describe either of those phrases as being particularly wise. The first is a basic observation that might lead you to noticing things like 7 degrees of separation, the other is advice that helps some people and not others. When I really think wisdom, I think of a lesson that gets burned into the mind, of not repeating a mistake.

theobromananda2y ago

You are experiencing exactly the phenomenon the previous poster was describing. Because you did not have the experiences that produced theses cliched phrases, they seem mundane and not wise to you. Once you do have these experiences, you will go "Ooooh, that is what they meant!". Had this experience hundreds of times. You may need some psychedelics.

giraffe_ladyOP2y ago

Sounds like you should do some mushrooms then my friend.

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