Can you understand the psychedelic experience by consuming psychedelic art?
No way! This is something you have to experience with yourself and noone else can give you a real glimpse of how it will be like for it is the world of your own imagination, your own feelings, your own boundries that you are dealing with when you are going on a trip. After taking a voyage to the other world you have a lot of things to process for you might get climpses of reality that you could have not imagined before. Those insights can cause fear and anxiety as well as bliss and inner peace. Often the result is a overflowing will to create art of any kind. This is how many of the extraordinary peaces of art got inspired. Everyone has absolutly individual visions, at least thats what I assume after talking to friends about their visions. Also every trip is different and noone goes on the same trip twice, this is also a statement according to my experience.
Trips can lead you to heaven and hell - if you use the terminology of Christianity that Aldous Huxly also used - but for real there are infinite dimensions to explore. Some of them are beyond the duality of good and bad. People report that they could access their trauma experiences and let go of them, others report that they had mental or physical contact with extraterrestres or other enteties that we usually do not meet in daily life, others feel a childish curiosity to explore their surrounding and see things with different eyes, others report the feeling that they have left their bodies and travelled into a timeless space, and others face their deepest fears and are sometimes able to let them go.
In my artwork I try to illustrate some visual experiences of the psychedelic experience. As I said in the beginning it is hardly possible to grasp something transdimensional in a drawing or a gif because in that state it is really you who is looking at yourself while we you are looking at some external piece of art in this blog. Anyways I hope you like this drawing and gif I just created and my little introduction about the psychedelic experience.
