“There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.” — Thomas Hardy. According to Medical News Today, psychosis happens in two broad forms - hallucination and delusion. Both have much to do with this quote.
Imagine you got lost while trekking alone in the desert. With no food or water, you know your chances of surviving are slim unless you reach an oasis within a few hours. Suddenly, you see something in the distance. You rub your eyes and can’t believe what you see. Water! Excited, you quicken your pace and break into a run. This is too good to be true!
And it was too good to be true. What looked like water was a mirage. A mirage is a form of hallucination — seeing something that isn’t there.
In times past, it was widely believed that the earth was flat and square. It wasn’t until 330 BCE that Aristotle and other Greek thinkers proposed a spherical earth. Today, we know due to images from space, among other facts, that the earth is spherical. However, there are still groups of people such as those from the Flat Earth Society that hold to the belief despite scientific evidence. If someone calls you a "flat-earther" today, they are likening you to an individual who stubbornly adheres to discredited or outmoded ideas. “Flat-earthers” are deluded as they believe in something that isn’t true.
What about when it comes to society today? In a spiritual sense, do we hallucinate? Are we deluded? Maybe we don’t hallucinate but I would argue that we are deluded. Whether direct or subtle, the media today sends us messages that cause us to be deluded. If you don’t have such and such then you will never be happy, it says. If you don’t look a certain way then you’re not good enough, it tells you. You can live an immoral life and not suffer any consequences, it continues.
As the saying goes, “all that glitters is not gold”. Things are not always as they seem or as we are told. We are deluded if we listen without questioning. We are deluded if we do not seek out the truth for ourselves.
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Design Info:
The theme of this assignment was spiritual psychosis.
The design is made up of genuine and fake gold jewellery.
Software - Edited in Photoshop
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