My strong-man description of your (I think correct!) feeling is that we all have a very specific lens through with we look at the world. Because all of us have very very limited lenses, but the world is actually quite large and complicated, we each end up with our own neurotic worries that are in a way over-blown when compared with the chaotic complexity of actual reality. Just think of that friend you have that always brings up the cost of something, or that person in your life who seems to always bring the conversation to how their political viewpoint would alleviate the problem, or the person who seems to always have a new and exciting reason to not have a kid yet.
Psychedelics just allow us to step out of our rigid framework for a few hours. For people with flexible/creative minds it might not be such a big deal as they are used to looking at reality and asking "but what if it were this way...", but lots of us have rather rigid conceptions of reality. Taking mushrooms and realizing that most of our worries are 'made up' in the sense that they don't relate to our basic needs can be eye opening.
Yeah this seems intuitively correct. Psychedelics are largely playing with your beliefs of the world, which is why it can go a lot of ways and is hard to study.
In a good setting with good guides it can be wildly transformative in a positive direction.
Psychedelics just allow us to step out of our rigid framework for a few hours. For people with flexible/creative minds it might not be such a big deal as they are used to looking at reality and asking "but what if it were this way...", but lots of us have rather rigid conceptions of reality. Taking mushrooms and realizing that most of our worries are 'made up' in the sense that they don't relate to our basic needs can be eye opening.