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Beliefs are derived from experiences (ideally...more or less...) Psychedelics deliver strange experiences. Thus psychedelics affect your beliefs, make them st

• mandmandam 5y ago
  It's quite a bit more than that. Loss of ego and a sense of interconnectedness are some of the main effects from mushrooms and MDMA... Meditation does the same. There's a lot of evidence, if you look around, that us WEIRD people (Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic) are rather estranged from the base state of humanity (which psychonauts and meditators explore). There's a lot of evidence, if you care to accept it, that psychedelics can dramatically help us to better realign with ourselves, and even with fundamental reality. In short, these strange experiences can actually reduce our own strangeness, while increasing our well-being, in quite specific and important ways.