Interesting comments here. When I was younger and used LSD a decent amount, I found that whilst using the new theories I developed mainly had to do with understanding the environment around me. Shrooms on the other hand induced a trip that I would accurately describe as an "introspective hell" like another user mentioned.
In summation I always desired to enchance my sense of spirituality through tripping, but I found that I still avoided examining myself thoroughly. Eventually psychedelics just became more of an escape, and I ended up overdoing it and having a psychotic break in November 2015.
While I certainly respect the concept of using psychedelics to explore yourself and the environment around you, I don't find it to be the end all be all anymore. I realized that the experience is just a result of the synapses in your brain firing in a different way, so perceiving yourself as a spiritual guru just because you use them is a bit short sided and (depending on the person) can even come across as arrogant.
Nowadays I hardly find myself with any sense of spirituality, identifying as agnostic or athiest and can can hardly achieve even a remotely meditative state. As much as I'd like to say psychedelics
really helped me gain a better sense of self, I've hardly even changed through the experiences. The only thing I've really gained are a few new interesting theories about the environment, but in reality I am still highly uneducated and hardly know a thing about actual science.
Nowadays I basically sit around berating myself for deplorable past behavior and feel that there's not much of a connection between anything at all, that we are all just a product of random interactions between atoms.
I apologize for the bleak and long winded post, it's just something I wanted to get off my mind because as a nother user put it, "there are no revelations, just what you perceive to be revelations."
I have just been letting that sink in and the reality of how little I know has been difficult to accept.
