[TeMPOraL]

> Are you saying that speaking to external beings while tripping is potentially a treatment for mental health?

"External" but really just products of your brain, and yes, I could see how this would be helpful. Taking such drugs seem like giving a whack to the brain to the point you enter a kind of "debug mode"; perhaps some issues that you can't normally untangle are accessible directly in that mode. At the very least, you get to poke at your internal state from angles normally not available to you, so some of your mental blocks could shake loose and fall back into place.

(I wouldn't know, I never took anything like it or had any similar experiences, but that's what I gather from reading countless stories and reports of those who did.)

[joquarky]

"Debug mode" is also my favorite way of putting it, and yes it does seem to give me greater access to retrieve memories and discover, re-evaluate, and re-program heuristics I thought were just background constants.

I've also read that some who are quite experienced in lucid dreaming can have conversations with their subconscious by embodiment into a character in their dream. I bet there is a lot of potential utility to be discovered there.