How much of the whole fetishizing over ultimate truth in cults and other forms comes down to nothing more than "I had an experience in this particular way, so it must be the True Way(tm)"?
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I think a lot of belief is based on experience. I got into an ontological discussion once with a theoretical physicist.
We spent a few hours working backward and eventually found that my experiences (using psychedelics) provided me with a basis for belief that diverged from his.
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Yeah! Are they as boring as mine?
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It's a half-joke.
I have just never had any kind of earth-shattering experiences. If anything, the only deep, profound thing I discovered is that I am antifragile to weirdness.
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Oh, had that too. I think it's mostly a dose-response thing, actually. Never had any overwhelming amount of any psychedelic. Was always lucid.
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I can't recall how much it was with the shrooms, but I've had far trippier experiences with hash.
At one point, I convinced myself I was playing a game of League of Legends, in my head. That was weird. I knew it wasn't really happening, but the experience was v. engrossing.
Lastly though, I did enough weird meditation and magic in my teens that I was already pretty used to trippy experiences by the time I tried any psychedelics.
I'd already internalized that stuff as "just another thing your consciousness can do", so...
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I was so far down the Left-Hand Path stuff at some point, I more or less entirely detonated my life - then found I didn't want to continue.
Still living with the repercussions of that. Also don't really do drugs anymore. Meditate very differently. Don't do magic, either.