To keep the power levels to a minimum the one person I know who experienced a major break through was an abuse survivor and was sooo angry and crazy. their family had tried to help him and he would just explode and behave in a very very antagonistic manor. The dissociation hit him hard but when he re associated he realized how much of his identity had been his trama and he saw how his siblings and biological father loved him and tried to help him.
Another lady was abused by a family member when she was little and said it really helped put it behind her.
I never got anything so profound and when you have a real job and responsibilities there are better things to do with my free time.
That's always been the strength of the introspective nature of Psychedelics. It's the benefit of the outsiders perspective. Aldous Huxley called this
"The mind at large".
Kids don't experiment with drugs anymore. If they do their friends record them and they get ridiculed online and they are stained professionally for it, so it's not something they chance. And I think this is going to have a detrimental effect on society.
One of the most common sentiments almost everyone experiences when taking a journey through the mind is a sense of harmony, a sense of putting one's own ego into perspective, an acceptance of the things we can't change (something the Trans would benefit from the most imo), and a recognition of a sort of universal perspective.
The experience is not only sobering, but has utilitaristic value, in the same way that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has, or even SSRI's in my opinion.
In our current environment people like Digi are left to the wolves.
You see these shit for brain losers like Riley, almost attempting to embody the spirit of the Shaman for someone like Digi; providing him with the connections for Drugs (whilst taking all of Digis money), fueling his ego (the one thing a Shaman should never do), and driving him down a destructive path.
If Digi had had someone positive in his life; who was Psychonautic in nature like Huxley but still grounded in reality through the pursuit of competence, it's very likely that he could have explored his gender issues constructively and come out of the experience as a more whole individual, much more in harmony with who he is, what he can do, and where he should go next. But the destructive types are everywhere, ready to jump on the next mark right away if they sniff the fuel that is money for their addictions, and will tell someone like Digi everything they need to hear just to keep the party going.
The West has slowly been waking up to the utility of these substances, and personally I can't fault any nation for being cautious, but as much as my psychopathic side loves to watch a lolcow fall, the maternal side of me does feel pity for the fodder who get lost in the transition.
Even still, I want to see him go on HRT for the lawls
