Could you expand on that? Perhaps, if you're comfortable with it, explain your experience with hallucinogens and the conclusions you came to in the end?
2. You lose your ability for self-deception, so when you come face to face with your problems you are forced to be completely honest about them. And once you're honest with yourself, it's very hard not to go through with changing your life for the better.
3. You get to diff your ordinary state of consciousness against your altered state of consciousness. This allows you to learn a ton about how your mind works, changes your theories about how lots of phenomena work, changes your assumptions about reality, etc.
4. If you take what Terence McKenna would call a 'heroic dosage', you might come up against 'the cosmic giggle'. That is, you come face to face with god or aliens or things that go completely against all of western science. And what's really interesting is that in double blind academic studies, multiple people have very similar encounters with alien entities even though they have no had no contact with each other. (C.f. Rick Strassman's book DMT: The Spirit Molecule.)
I have added an entry in my wordpress TODOLIST about my experience with hallucinogens. I'll email it to you when it's ready. BTW, you say "email me" in your profile, but you don't provide an email address!
