I’ve read stories about how it’s a sought after side-effect and key factor for treating mental health issues using substances like psilocybin or ketamine. What about it actually helps improve the mind? For those that have experienced it, what does it feel like?
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You see how tenuous and fragile the connections you have to relationships, other people and society really is.
Who are “you”?
You live somewhere, because you have money to pay to stay there. But you don’t physically have the cash, it’s all in the bank.
You have a job and a boss who likes you, but that’s just an arrangement that’s convenient for both of you and could be destroyed in a second.
You live in a country, everyone has decided to drive cars on one side of a painted line and obey colored lights – but there’s no real reason for it, your car works perfectly fine on the other side of the road and a red light on a pole is just that.
Psychedelics let you “see” the bullshit framework of society, and also your connections to it. If there’s a problem, like your Dad beat you, it lets you “see” that that was his reaction to whatever stresses he had in his life. When sober, someone could explain it to you, but with psychs, you can feel it.
Once you’re at ego death, nothing makes sense, you are just a human and you realize that a lot of your relationships in life are just made up – so you can reshape them – as they only (mostly) exist in your head.
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