Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface

What if "dissolving the ego" is bad though?

Thousands of years of Buddhist practice says it isn't

Psychedelics are not some harmless cure-all. They can provide remarkable experiences, life affirming experiences and being quite effective against depression. They can also cause some pretty scary and bad times. So they need to be treated with respect. But I think they're well worth exploring.

That's what the ego would say.

Thousands of years of Buddhist practice and the enlightened teachers are still getting in sex scandals. As someone who spent years in that world, I never met anyone who seemed genuinely helped by the practice