showing me perspectives I never knew existed and teaching me there are infinitely more perspectives.
In conflicts there is hardly ever (if ever) one truth but every party has something to say for itself. That keeps the most real truth quite in the middle, the golden median.
Playing not only the devils advocate but everythings advocate in a situation is similar to the buddhist idea of compassion. I feel this is vital.
Oh yes - psychedelics have also helped me come to terms with the fact that everything is transient, and feel simultaneous sadness and joy for the totality of cosmic cycles e.g. life and death being sort of part of each other. They have teached me to see the wondrous beauty of totally mundane details and fundamental aspects of life previously taken for granted. I have lost the feeling of attachment as a dependency-thing, also regarding life - so losing my fear of death and gained ultimate satisfaction.
The weight and intensity of these themes have been stunning me like permanently for a long time now. I don't feel like careless shits and giggles anymore - only very seldomly. My gaze goes beyond a lot of things now. I probably tripped too often lol.
Well I should add that giftedness and especially overexcitability made me conscientious to begin with. I'm very sensitive to everything pertaining deeper understanding and widening the mind and have been my entire life.
It comes at a price though: ADD-like irregular attention patterns and symptoms resembling something in the autism spectrum. It's all connected, but doesn't fit classic psychological understanding. Look into the above link, Dabrowski figured a lot of it out.
I'm always hesitant to talk about it since I don't mean to come off arrogant or boasting or whatever. Its a gift but also a curse and people don't realize that.
I've had many times where I considered fleeing society because of folding under all the pressure.