One doesn’t really need drugs to change reality. There is another lesson to be had here: even acceptable drugs, like alcohol, can teach us that reality is not what we think it is.
A couple of drinks and optimism grows, but one wakes up the next morning with regrets. This doesn’t mean that the optimistic reality didn’t exist; it means that when we were experiencing it we were not seeing the familiar old landscape.
Yes, our landscapes have a lot of room for change. The lesson, however, is that reality is not what we think it is. The material world that we know and cling to so desperately is continually evolving. It was evolving when the first chloroplasts began to oxygenate the carbon dioxide atmosphere, and it continued evolving when plants moved out of the oceans, turning the landscape green.
Just imagine what reality used to be, and contrast it with the material world we know now. Material reality, in all its forms, has served to satisfy our needs – it has been the source of contentment. Until now!
We have transformed reality into a completely false promise of happiness. We are addicted to more than enough and we have lost the sense of contentment that all beings on this planet once had.
To re-acquire contentment we must refocus on qualia. The pendulum must swing and rock back and forth until matter and qualia come together in balance again.
Happiness in the current reality is impossible, but we can find contentment again. And we can construct happiness – a very qualidelic, human idea – into realty, because happiness only really exists when the beings around us are content. So, if you are going to do drugs, be qualiadelic about it!