I’ve had the shrooms, and the microdot, and the mescaline and the acid and the a

I’ve had the shrooms, and the microdot, and the mescaline and the acid and the angel dust and more because I grew up in the seventies and early eighties and it was a different time. You couldn’t get aids, The only taboo was heroin. And we were responsible college kids for the most part.
That said, the experiences you refer to are not magical they are biological – and yes, especially if you can achieve disconnection without spiraling into a negative episode the neurological consequences are something that can be extraordinarily beneficial simply because it produces such a discount on associative pathways.
Various forms of detatchment from reality from daydreaming to extraordinary discipline of many religions can achieve a similar result. But then, again, it’s just a biological phenomena.
That’s why we’re beginning to see ketamine and other therapies in the formal system just as we’ve seen a rise in hallucinogen ‘tourism’ in the informal system.
It is always a self defense to claim people like me are somehow missing out, when in fact, we just see it as another of life’s experiences, but we don’t attribute childish mythologies to what is an obviously biological experience. 😉

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