Maybe it's a better cultural value for our truth seeking groups to avoid psychedelics and other hallucinogens.
I haven't met anyone who's seriously felt they'd "discovered" or solved anything serious while tripping. I know people who've left relationships or changed career paths, so as with nearly anything psychoactive, YMMV.
I use it once every month or so, and while I’m on it I did the following:
Built a triangular arbitrage DeFi trading system that made me 200k
Sped up a face recognition system to from 16,000faces a second to 1.2M faces a second
Created the first version of my nudged elastic band simulator for finding transition state energy
Learnt GPU shader coding and made my first real-time atomic force simulator
All of this while high on LSD, not having the idea and implementing later, but having the idea and then implementing while high,
I do a lot of coding while normal too, but LSD seems to remove all self doubt and makes me come up with creative solutions much much much faster, it’s not a simulation, I am objectively better while using it.
It has downsides too though, usually the day after I am more tired than usual and need a day to just rest, and it doesn't always work, sometimes while on it I just feel like chilling and reading, it's not something that can be forced
Has worked every time for me.
Lots of people claim to have solved a problem they have, and some of these solutions end up being forgotten, bad, or authentically and positively life-changing.
Hard to draw conclusions from this landscape (which is why scientists should be experimenting with them).
With some technical problems I have certainly felt that I have solved them and come out with nothing but undecipherable scribble at the end. Once or twice something useful in the afterglow, but much of it is lost (or was never real to begin with)
Did you actually feel that you had solved all major conflicts, or are you 1) parodying your own ambition of insight or 2) making the separate claim that “if the primary agents in the conflict could have the experience that I’m having, they maybe would not be so conflicted?”
(2) for example is a much, much more believable claim than “I solved all the problems” despite their superficial similarity.
I’m not really interested in what you believe, it’s clear you haven’t had psychedelic experiences, which is fine, but it’s a bit rich for you to be claiming what I could have experienced if you’ve never had your wetwear run that particular program. Psychedelic experiences are unbelievable by their very nature. At their worst (as was repeated elsewhere in the thread, and actually in the article as well) you are literally entering the state of a schizophrenic. It isn’t very nice.
And at its best you can think that you have deep insight into major world problems, the cause of conflicts and how to solve them.
In a more personal middle ground it can also be a highly fertile environment for self reflection and introspection with lasting benefits
However, imho. altering the thought process through drugs and really introspecting on what changes and how that relates to the sober state can yield a LOT of valuable learnings.
I feel like I learned a lot about myself just by introspecting on the effects alcohol, THC, etc. had on me. Really gave me some insights on how associations are formed, what euphoria does to decision making and so on.
Are you sure you're not confusing LSD with THC? What you're describing is well known as "stoner epiphanies"...
Sometimes you had separate yourself pretty far from something to be able absorb and understand an issue, and LSD can cause that space.
I see the space, the separating, as the benefit. Gave new prospective.
I'm only aware of it happening a NOx trip in the 1800's
> Maybe it's a better cultural value for our truth seeking groups to avoid psychedelics and other hallucinogens
So. You're afraid of them then. Otherwise you'd post some actual evidence.