I've posted about this before but I went to see Robin Carhart-Harris [0] talk about this in London recently. He said that the research was suggesting that the u

I've posted about this before but I went to see Robin Carhart-Harris [0] talk about this in London recently. He said that the research was suggesting that the under psychedelics, the brain enters a state where it becomes more malleable and open to reconfiguration (and it actually undergoes a permanent physical change). The same thing happens under extreme trauma. While in this state, the experiences can then almost be structurally hardcoded into the mind. So the chemicals trigger the mechanics, but the experience dictates the lasting effects. [0] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.carhart-harris https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.carhart-harris