It is generally believed that the trip is part of the mechanism for healing
Interestingly, you can have trips without psychedelics, like with holotropic breathwork, and still get the benefits
> The resurgent interest in psychedelics is partly driven by huge unmet need. The World Health Organization estimates that about 280 million people worldwide have depression
It’s almost like the same system that makes people depressed, wants to create a pill to wave it away, so that people can keep doing the stuff that makes them depressed, but without getting depressed
We might be entering deep Brave New World territory
Interestingly, you can have trips without psychedelics, like with holotropic breathwork, and still get the benefits
> The resurgent interest in psychedelics is partly driven by huge unmet need. The World Health Organization estimates that about 280 million people worldwide have depression
It’s almost like the same system that makes people depressed, wants to create a pill to wave it away, so that people can keep doing the stuff that makes them depressed, but without getting depressed
We might be entering deep Brave New World territory