A great measure of these people is how they fetishize induced altered states of consciousness as privileged insight without acknowledging that an inner journey is only as meaningful as your worst base assumption while sober.

Because the minute you’re straight again it’s your existing brain doing the interpretation, so if you have no self awareness, cannot re-examine things or approach old things with new praxis, whether it’s meditation or ketamine you’re not going to get any real transformative benefit. Indeed, you can just create a chemical hugbox in which your fractionated self reads back your hubris to you in an encouraging manner.