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Yes, some kind of de-conditioning and "seeing the world with fresh eyes" has often been attributed to the psychedelic experience. I'd take it all with a grain
by pmoriarty 6y ago
Yes, some kind of de-conditioning and "seeing the world with fresh eyes" has often been attributed to the psychedelic experience.
I'd take it all with a grain of sand, however. Just because what one experiences on psychedelics might seem "more real than real" doesn't mean it actually is. Some have described psychedelics as superplacebos.. people can be very suggestible in such states, and are prone to believing what they want to believe.
- Trasmatta 6y agoAbsolutely agreed. I don't feel like I actually learned anything new or anything that I didn't already believe. The only secret about the universe I uncovered was that it's a complete mystery and we don't have any idea what's going on. Which is something I already believed, but the belief is different from confronting the void itself. And even that realization isn't something that intrinsically should be connected to anxiety, except that the drug also induced a panic state in me, so now my brain associates those thoughts with fear and danger. Slowly working on reprogramming that.