I have no idea, but if I was tripping the answers would pour out of me like water!

Psychedelics are an odd duck. I was quite the fan when I was young. As many others will testify, there's no question about the transformative power of those experiences: they can indeed provide a window into true self. But I don't think it's a good way to do spiritual development, and the dangers are quite real: plenty of psychological damage has occurred from psychedelics taken by those who are less than fully stable, or taken in adverse conditions. Psychedelics disrupt the conditioned / habitual patterns of thinking and perceiving which characterize "normal" consciousness. A mind freed from this conditioning can leap forward immensely along the developmental road and see where it leads -- for a few hours. But the magic wears off, and the individual is left with a bunch of new *concepts* about spirituality or life, which really don't add up to sustainable developmental progress. I suppose there's a place for getting a sneak preview, if it were carefully managed, and subjects were carefully selected -- there were experiments along these lines in the 60's which showed promise. But I feel on balance that the best way to do spiritual development is the old fashioned way: one day at a time, making steady progress through steady effort... that produces changes which last, without the flash and sizzle -- or dangers -- of temporary chemical enlightenment.

Well I guess it really is a question of what you call reality. Everything we feel and touch and see is really just and impulse sent to our brainand our brain gives us back an idea of what we touched or saw or whatever. Therefore reality is pretty much just what the majority agrees that there brains are telling them something is. So I suppose if the majority of people are on LSD the different signals that the drug causes their brainto give could be considered reality.

well if thats the case I would be a guru ....lol I took well over 500 trips in the late 60's and 70's !and I am still just like everyone else ....bent ....lol

some trips are to convincing to think other.

it's the same reality, you're just perceiving it differently. LSD is a serotonin receptor agonist. Since it is taken up into the 5-HT receptors instead of serotonin, serotonin effectively loses its ability to limit the activity of it's set systems (emotional, sensory, dopamine, etc) and the brain flows as it wants to. The reason for this emotional and sensory govern on your brain is probably because, as anyone who has taken LSD knows, the onslaught of multiple trains of thought and the hallucinations and distortions are very distracting. Imagine going to work every day on four hits of acid. One side of psychedelics is self discovery. It's basically a shortcut past meditation. The conscious filter for your thoughts and emotions that keep your brain free of mental clutter are dissolved and everything floods with everything else. It's an uncontrollable mess of past and present emotions and different problems, ideas and feelings resurfacing unrestrained. To close your eyes and go inward during a trip is a good way to sort through your issues and in some cases different psychological disorders have been cured by such a thing. This cannot really be done without the drug or years and years of concentration. LSD doesn't really open up a new reality, it just amplifies the current one.

i think pschedelics open your mind to the bigger picture but it is up to the person using it to take what they have learned and not let it fizzle away after the magic has gone that in my opinion is TRUE responsible drug use