One of the things that psychedelics teach you, is that what your mind perceives to be reality, is your reality at that point in time. In other words, as conscio

One of the things that psychedelics teach you, is that what your mind perceives to be reality, is your reality at that point in time. In other words, as conscious beings experiencing the world through qualia, the phrase "it's all in your mind" is deeply true. The world as experienced during a trip does not match the cold, concrete day-to-day external world, but these psychedelic experiences do not interact with that world, they interact with the soft, malleable, subjective internal world. If these people have built up an expectation that psychedelic use will trigger a revelatory change in perspective, and it does - whether by placebo or neurochemical means - then isn't it fair to say that they are working as intended?