#Mental State

A mental state is an invisible black box that makes coffee taste bitter for no apparent reason and compels you to reread the same email three times. It boasts about "understanding" others’ moods while sinking its own into the depths of mystery. It’s also why you suddenly can’t read the whiteboard during meetings. Drifting on the sea of consciousness, there’s no promise of reaching shore. The more self-help books you read, the more bizarre the maze of your mental state becomes.

A trance is a ritual of casting off the vessel of reason to drift instantaneously into one’s inner illusions. Temporary discontent transmutes into a fleeting blessing, and the tingling pleasure deceives us into believing in an ephemeral truth. Once over, we are plunged back into the quagmire of reality, yet this fall evokes an insatiable craving for the next intoxication. It is a paradoxical festival celebrating both the self-destruction and rebirth of consciousness.