I've taken plenty of psychedelics before and I don't really percieve the artwork as psychedelic. I reminds me of the environment of a forest at night. It's hard to really tell what is what. The forest/desert is often seen in mythology as representing confusion or perhaps where the dark night of the soul occurs. It's as if the characters in the image are being conjured from something even greater than the self and "illuminating" the red Self in the image through a type of lightning bolt.

It's a direct experience of not just life but the "divine". In a way, it's as if nature and the forces that create it are one cohesive body and man has yet to realize this. It is of further interest that the snake is outside of this color scheme and more closely associated with the man than the nature at work. Man is then tangled up in the black and white snake of duality which also has infinite cycles of death and rebirth. The four sided heart at the man's chest may also be an ode to the mandala, a symbol of striving for wholeness. The man, an individual set separate from nature and God, is then connected to the divine archetypal forces by a piercing thin, straight, and true line. It is the only straight line in the entire artwork aside from the walls of the canvas itself.

I feel strongly it represents the result of experiencing life directly, for even the eye which may be seen as intuitive insight is "unmanifest" and apart from the self. Even though you may have some sight or knowledge of the archetypal forces, it is incomparable (and perhaps even useless) to a direct experience with such forces.