psychedelics

Just because people feel like there are similarities between experiences on psychedelics and meditation does not mean that they have equal outcomes.

The article compared meditation to psychedelics because the author is misguided.

If you want to experience synaesthesia firsthand, many people report synaesthetic experiences when taking psychedelics.

Might as well have used Mescalito indians as an example to rampant psychedelics use in the USA in the 19th century...

Take some psychedelics, get outside your comfort zone with people and activities, enmesh yourself in a new culture, learn a new language.

Of course very hard to put into language, but easily grokked under psychedelics.

I'm more curious why psychedelics are (or were) viewed as something that can cause social problems.

As an atheist and somebody who has never used psychedelics I find this fascinating.

I ate some psychedelics once while depressed hardly (sometimes it went into strong panic attacks), it was worst trip I ever had.

As far as meditation vs psychedelics I defer to people who have done enough of both to have informed opinions on the matter.

I've done psychedelics for about 4 years, and western ceremonial magic which involved plenty of meditation daily and consistently for about a decade.

You get loads of that on psychedelics as well.

Another strange fact is that while all other psychedelics are boundary dissolving substances with your ego first to get booted, with DMT you apparently "maintain" your present self throughout the trip.

"Demon possession" during bible days was likely a form of mental illness, and those who genuinely heard "God" might have either been on psychedelics or had genuine conditions (schizophrenia comes to mind).

Psychedelics have never helped me solve a complex mathematical problem, but they did help me solve some complex social problems.

Psychedelics shouldn't be so clinical, and fearing them is only fearing yourself.