A better analogy would be 'Empty Recycle Bin'...

Chucking out the trash (previous belief systems) and sprucing up the place a bit...ready for new files (OMGWTF!!) to be written in...

yeah

but its on us to integrate and do the work after the tranceformative experience

Very good points. You can certainly get a sense of "clearing out the pipes", but you won't necessarily return to any kind of previous mind state. Each moment in our minds is unique and irreproducible. If you are stuck in a negative mind state, a psychedelic experience can shake you loose. But as UniverseCannon said, the task is always upon us to integrate the experience- to take the things you were shown, look at them next to your previous mindset and see what improvements you can make.

You might have an intensely cathartic experience that makes all your daily worries immediately look trivial and obsolete, leaving you with a renewed sense of appreciation.

But there's always the possibility of a rough ride too, and those can be a little more work to integrate... While at the same time often being highly constructive.

I look at it more like deprogramming, or defragmenting a hard drive. Politically, I used to think very narrowly along party lines, but now I make up my own mind. It's strange how I used to think....Now I'm more often confused and it's much harder, since I have to think for myself and not just let others do it for me. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

As for a healthier mind-state, well it takes work. The DMT is a tool that can get you there, but the work is still up to you. It can show you the path, but you still have to hike it. There's seldom any reward without struggle and effort.

I like Mr. P.'s defragmenting analogy better than the system restore one. The hard drive contents keep changing day after day. Files are added, others are deleted, lots are modified. You don't return to a primal, pristine OS state. I don't even think about that as something desirable... but a lot of cleanup can occur.

In the DMT afterglow, I thought once of the antioxidants that roam the body capturing free radicals. Spice can work like some sort of psychic antioxidant... even if other times it will install unexpected software, change some of your desktop shortcuts or even make you question which frakking OS you have actually installed, DMT seems to optimize rather than disrupt.

You want a legit system reset? x3 Kambo(more of a physical/nervous system reset) and a flood dose of Iboga would do it. But be warned it wont be easy and not recommended. It will reset all the habits that don't serve you but you have to start replacing them with good habits or you will eventually go back to your old ways. Think of it this way, right now you have some crazy write protected files on your harddrive that are difficult to delete, Iboga will delete them by taking admin mode but the next files that are copied over will be write protected so choose wisely. DMT is good to dissolve judgment, amplify unconditional love and imagination.

DMT won't reset you, though it may catalyze your ability to do just that for yourself. It is more likely that it will set you up with even more confusion and deeper questions.

iboga can reset the brain, literally with certain addictions.

A good LSD dose definitely feels like cleaning mental house to me. I often feel squeeky clean the day after.

Every now and then, I do feel like I'm hitting the soul's reset button with DMT, but the DMT experience is so completely random, that it would be quite irresponsible to advocate using it in such a way. It's sheer unpredictability makes it a not-so-wise candidate for trying to get such specific results. It's "system restore" effects (or whatever analogy you feel suits it best) seems to be more of an unpredictable byproduct, and makes it unlikely for one to be able to reliably achieve such effects or that it would be a primarily "intentional" effect of DMT (if one could say that such intentional effects exist in the first place).