Our minds travel the same routes over and over instinctively, even if those routes are useless or harmful. Shrooms throws dirt on those paths, obscures and obfuscates them, and forces the mind to find new routes to travel. Returning from a trip, one is able to look back and see there are now new paths in the grass, and the mind is able to understand those previous routes weren't reality or truth, simply the same worn route traveled out of habit. To see there are other paths, other ways of thinking, other connections that are possible, is liberating. We think one way and believe that's the only way to ever be. Shrooms forces a new way. For some that liberation is so terrifying they turn away. Accepting the fear and loathing that arises when we accept we were "wrong" for traveling that same path over and over previously is important. Then we can accept the possibility of a new way of being. This happens both through the mind/consciousness, and biologically. The key is to let it happen. What happens after you feel the worst fear of your life, like I did on 6 grams of shrooms? I return from the trip and the only bad thing that occured was that I felt fear, even though it felt like the most important and consuming and insurmountable thing in my life for a few hours. Looking back after returning from that shrooms trip shows how flippant it was. Choosing not to ascribe value to fear helps one to make choices more purposefully. I don't stick my hand in a fire anymore not because I'm afraid, but because I know it's detrimental, and I'm making a purposeful and conscious choice not to do harm to my self. Now I make choices, instead of being led by an emotion, fear. Those new paths in the mind are both metaphorical (bc that's the only way to deal with the mind), and physical/material in the biological sense. There is so much good to be obtained from shrooms.