>>14261455>for some people, the intensity and "almost-overwhelmingness" of the psychedelic experience is more valuable than just noticing the truth whilst sober.i mean, drugs are just like other experiences, and being sober is like one drug. What's great about a psychedelic experience is not the experience itself, but the fact that your intellect comes to an understanding that there is a dialectical relationship between being sober and being high. This allows your intellect to further triangulate what consciousness is, or at least experience it in an expanded way.
>at high enough doses and in the proper set/setting, you experience ego death, like the other anon mentioned. i don't know if you have had this experience, but essentially, your sense of self completely falls away. there is no longer "you and everything else", there is only "everything". in this state, your sense of knowing is highly altered and internal perceptions of what it's like to have no sense of self brings about many epiphany-like experiences.Yes, Ive had these sorts of experiences all the time both tripping and sober, idk, maybe Im just schizotypical or maybe Ive already "unlocked" what psychedelics have to offer me.
>obviously almost impossible to describe using just wordsthis is partly what I'm talking about, even in a sober state you don't realize that normal sense perception cant be described in words, the connection between words ideas and sense experience is all contingent. You can't describe music or architecture or art in any sort of formal way either. Taking drugs just changes your experience, the profound part comes from the intuition and understanding you gain.
