Hey thanks, happy to be here. I guess I'm with Terence Mckenna on the "collective growth" thing. In one of his many talks, he explains how he feels that the psychedelic experience is a collection of the collective conciousness exploration that humans did for centuries. Whenever you trip with a psychedelic he believed that you were tapping into some kind of collective arrangement resulted from people having and sharing trips. I feel that he was somewhat right and that exploration of conciousness through the use of plant medicines is a process that we should share and talk about, to help each other digest the experiences and integrating them in our personal view and in the bigger picture; at least, that is my take on this experiences, someone else might tell you that is just your imagination getting wild and that they trip just to have fun and be amazed, to each their own

I didn't meant that you have to trip with others, but I will say that I believe that tripping with friends or people that you know well might lead you to share a greater bond with them, if you set your intentions in that direction! Also, I'm no expert myself, I tripped 3 times with DMT and 1 time with shrooms recently, but I got a lot of questions to brainstorm from those few experiences.