LSD primarily teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives. It blows away the consensus and is most effective when trying to see through conditioning of any sort. I think anyone with a modicum of self-awareness and self-insight can gain a lot from these, baseline, effects. One doesn't need to be a creative genius.

There are multiple difficulties when talking about LSD experiences, especially to others, given the enormous degree of subjectivity and variability in these experiences. Sometimes, the transformative effects take time to manifest or time for one to realize that they did manifest. Most importantly, given that LSD plays tricks with one's notion of what constitutes one's self, one can be rewired in major ways and never himself realize it.

Psychedelics in my view are a supremely useful tool. They can lead to unveiling hidden potential, intelligence amplification, wilds bouts of creativity, confronting and healing traumatic events, breaking free of conditioning, resetting and transforming one's mind. These are baseline effects, there is also the spiritual/shamanic domain which - for some - is by far the more interesting one.

> LSD primarily teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives.

Hard agree. The least anyone can take out of it is a new perspective which does not come often to many.

For me, psychedelics (temporarily [1]) blew away the unfortunate habits that made me feel compelled to size other people up, or to care much for how others were sizing me up. From the outside, this probably looks like laziness or shallowness, because someone who has "peeked behind the curtain" may not be motivated by the same external forces as before.

1: That, to me, has always been the unfortunate aspect of psychedelics - the moment is fleeting. Luckily, meditation and just generally being present has been much more sticky.

Intersting, but not unexpected. If you give people a masterpiece, be it music, a painting, a book, etc., uneducated people will not get nearly as much out of it as more educated people.

If you give fantastic ski gears to most people, then won't ski better than before, but to a good skier, they will change a lot.

It makes sense that you can use a tool to the maximum potential that you are capable of.

I disagree with this type of thinking, as if some people with the same opportunities choose the less rewarding path as a consequence of laziness.

I like the metaphor of a battle, where it's easier to apply lots of energy to the front when your flanks are secured.

For many people they are surrounded by financial insecurity, dysfunctional social structures and even unsecure psychic structures.

I didn't read it as indicating laziness, I read it as those who make time to build creative structures with a straight mind may more easily make use of the psychedelic's influence than those who have not.

ie. psychedelics don't make you creative, they inform your creativity

Yeah it’s a particularly interesting life experience to have, but it takes a lot of work to integrate it in a useful way.

It seems to imply a moral failure though.

If that's how you read, maybe. I'm not getting anything other than "psychedelics are not a shortcut"