The current trend in psychedelic folk knowledge is away from the good trip/bad trip dichotomy and towards "challenges" or "challenging experiences." IE trips th

The current trend in psychedelic folk knowledge is away from the good trip/bad trip dichotomy and towards "challenges" or "challenging experiences." IE trips that force you to reckon with some particular fear, past experience, core part of your worldview etc but provide (or demand) an opportunity for growth or fuller self-knowledge through it. I've found this valuable in that it encourages full & nonjudgmental engagement with the "bad" experiences, focused on gaining something meaningful from them. Though it risks dismissing the potentially harmful effects of these experience. Or even worse, considering people who do have bad trips to be merely too weak or unenlightened to have chosen to avoid the experience. But anyway I suspect the author is aware of this view, having used the phrase "challenging trips" in almost exactly the same sense.