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>One does have to wonder why we need to medicate ourselves to cope with reality rather than change reality instead.

Psychedelic therapy can reveal things about your reality that you may have been completely blind to or unaware of, thus enabling you to change it.

To use these substances properly, it's not just about taking the substance and having an enlightening experience and then being done with it.

It's about taking what you learned about your reality, what you want to change about it, and then integrating/implementing that into your every day life in the weeks, months, and years afterwards. That's where the real work is.