#Nonordinary State

A nonordinary state is a generic term for the special events emerging from the cracks in everyday's safety net, temporarily forcing reason and common sense on sabbatical. Meditation, drugs, sudden insights, or even a simple doze at the wheel qualify. It's a carnival where usually suppressed desires and fears are permitted to rampage legally, a miraculous time. In this realm, adventurers on their self-discovery return bearing souvenirs of vitality and confusion. Society calls it self-actualization or religious experience, but to the participant, it may simply be an alibi.