Psychedelic modes of consciousness can provide states that are awe-inspiring, sublime, ethereal and the most beautiful and intricate of objects can be seen. One can lose one sense of oneself as one self, it can shatter into a hailstorm of subjectivities. One sense of space is often distorted, time fluctuates or even disappears, one can attain completely novel feelings, emotions and sense data can tangle to the extent that one may smell the colour of time.
as a philosopher of mind one who studies mind matter logic the varieties of consciousness and as a metaphysician one who seeks the fundamental depths of reality it seems obvious that to enhance our understanding of the mind requires the investigation of such