I think this kinda stuff is way out there and not very grounded. Certain things interact with other things in many different ways, just because some of those things are pleasant and/or "mind expanding" doesnt mean there is anything else to them. Some of you guys make it sound like the conscience is involved in a huge conspiracy to cover up reality. Like as if theres some unknown universe it never wants us to know about and that when we take these drugs we get these glimpses of truth that it tries to hide as if itself(somehow without"us") has knowledge of sucha place or "plane". Its crazy. When you get too drunk is your blurred vision due to some crazy overlapping or lagging of different "planes" or is it alcohol fucking with the normal funtioning of messages.
All psyches do is warp the message and how you understand it. They dont open up wormholes or some crazy shit.
lol anyway G'Night.
Alcohol clouds truth, and IMO alcohol shouldn't be used as an example that psychedelics necessarily cloud truth as well.
I think psychedelics do show some people a glimpse of truth. Our brains are hardwired through evolution and adaptation to only take in the information deemed biologically important for survival, therefore we filter out a lot if reality. It's not a conspiracy to cover up reality, it's a biological mechanism to filter aspects of reality unnecessary for survival. Al though as the OP alludes to, these aspects of reality may be useful in our evolution.
Through the human minds evolution and progression I believe many people are able to beneficially use psychedelics and get a glimpse of truth, but as a whole the entire human race is not biologically capable of handling all of this information.
This reminds of Aldous Huxley's book "The Doors of Perception", with his theory of "mind-at-large".
To quote Theophastrus from his post on "The Main Psychedelic Thought Loop Thread" on post 109
"S
ome ideas on the origin of psychedelic thought loops:
According to pharmacological research, "LSD acts to preferentially inhibit serotonergic cell firing while sparing postsynaptic serotonergic receptors from upregulation/downregulation." Most of the brain's serotonin is produced by neurons that originate in the raphe nuclei (RN), and whose primary target is "the locus coeruleus (LC), which controls the release of norepinephrine, which regulates the sympathetic nervous system. The LC also has neurons that extend into the cerebellum, thalamus, hypothalamus, cerebral cortex, and hippocampus. The RN extends its projections into the brainstem and up into the brain. It has been suggested that neurons in this brain region may inhibit sensation, thus protecting the brain from sensory overload."
This data ostensibly serves as physiological proof of Bergson's theory of consciousness (outlined by Aldous Huxley in The Doors of Perception), which suggests that although the human mind is capable of experiencing infinity, such a perception is not conducive to everyday survival. Thus, the brain (perhaps through its serotonergic system) serves as a filtering valve that only allows us to experience the perceptive data that it deems practically important at any given moment."
I think it is very likely that psychedelics open our filtering valves in our mind and allow us to experience more of reality, so I agree that the OP's suggestion is probably correct. Remember Shulgin's rating scale?
"PLUS FOUR (++++) A rare and precious transcendental state, which has been called a 'peak experience', a 'religious experience,' 'divine transformation,' a 'state of Samādhi' and many other names in other cultures. It is not connected to the +1, +2, and +3 of the measuring of a drug's intensity. It is a state of bliss, a participation mystique, a connectedness with both the interior and exterior universes, which has come about after the ingestion of a psychedelic drug, but which is not necessarily repeatable with a subsequent ingestion of that same drug.
If a drug (or technique or process) were ever to be discovered which would consistently produce a plus four experience in all human beings, it is conceivable that it would signal the ultimate evolution, and perhaps the end, of the human experiment."
