>>13760710A bit of introspection isn't going to do much. Consider the literal hundreds of millions of years of evolution which have tuned the brain to have certain perspectives. If you were closer to just sheer being you wouldn't be able to survive. As such I really think drugs are necessary, because you need to literally fuck your brain's in-built processing.
In even fish, the brain is already taking information and imposing interpretation on it. Even a fish sees for example food and not-food.
There is an assumption made that more processing = more sobriety. Actually the more processing a brain does the further it gets from the supposed raw data being fed into it. If you want to experience reality exactly as is, you want to experience as close to the raw data as you possibly can... So drugs... The venom of Bufo Alvarius seems to basically destroy vital areas of the brain and stop it from functioning temporarily, ehile memory function continues. Very useful.
