One trip about 2 years ago made me realize that I should not worry about things I can't control, and changed me from the bitter, angry person I'd become to the life loving happy person I used to be when I was young, in an instant.
About 20 years ago I had some bad shit going on in my life and did the same. It was the most horrible experience of my life. I thought I was shitting snakes and they were then eating me.
However I instantly stopped smoking, drinking and haven't touched anything since.
YMMV as they say.
Edit: perhaps its related but it was shortly after that I finally grokked Unix and C.
Scientifically speaking, are you saying that this would be the result for most people? Steve Jobs, for example, famously took LSD but he certainly cared about controlling most things in his life, and sweated the details.
I like to control things as well, but not things I am not able to, like other people, or distant wars, or politicians, etc :)
Anyway, I got a lot of insights that really changed my life for the better. Funny thing is that most of it is common knowledge, these things that are 'easier said than done', that then turn out to be just as easy done as said :)
(I can only talk from my own perspective of course)
