So psychedelics create new neural pathways like new neurons or just send things to different places? Like I've heard that the reason why we have hallucinations on LSD is because taste is being sent to sight and site is being sent to feel and then feel is being sent to nose so it just completely screws the body up.
I don't think that is correct or at least it is not in line with personal experience. What I think is going on is that it is encouraging the forming of new axon dendrite connections. Not new neurons, but new connections that didn't exist previously. These new paths are what reshapes our thinking. These new paths will fail or be reinforced depending on if we use them on not. This is why they are only a tool and it is up to you to make them work. Your own effort determines your success with them.
Are you talking about the We Are All One feeling?
No, I am speaking about the underlying physical mechanism by which most of the phenomenon occurs.
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