A closer look
In 1600, a humble German shoemaker named Jakob Bohme stared at a pewter beam of sunlight reflecting off a dish and instantly hallucinated the underlying architecture of the universe. Without any formal theological training, he began furiously writing about how God is essentially a swirling paradox of light and dark, creating a mystical framework that would later heavily inspire Hegel and Newton. It remains the most historically influential psychotic break ever triggered by shiny dishware.
