I came across an article that I will share an excerpt from; it's something many of you are probably familiar with but interesting none the less.
"Based on these results, a seed-based pharmaco-physiological interaction/functional connectivity analysis was performed using a medial prefrontal seed. Psilocybin caused a significant decrease in the positive coupling between the mPFC and PCC. These results strongly imply that the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs are caused by decreased activity and connectivity in the brain's key connector hubs, enabling a state of unconstrained cognition."
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/6/2138To me, this gives a positive spin on how we should think of psychedelics. Instead of the effects being random arbitrary malfunctions of no value, they can be thought of as processes that are always occurring or have the potential to occur that are instead filtered out so that we can function more easily in consensus reality. When you're tripping you are basically peaking under the hood, seeing the processes that unfold in your subconscious. Maybe...