RE: [Psychedelics] Tripping Methodology: Two Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Trip
If I understand you you seem to be saying that psychedelically observing with eyes open creates 'distortion' and 'hallucinations' and that tripping with eyes shut you prefer, but you think it is under-emphasized?
LOL, I am utterly different to you. I rather see the internal form of tripping VERY emphasized by the therapeutic model. For example if you take one of the leading psychedelic researchers, Stan Grof--who many therapists will copy his method all will make sure to blindfold their clients, and put music headphones on and encourage them to go on an inner journey. Grof and others will claim this way is superior to open-eyed psychedelic experience, and they will cite shamanic tradition which also will encourage people to have these ritual in darkness.
But I am not seeing this now. I see that we have all lost a deep contact with nature, and we need to sensually interact and participate with nature. And that what we experience with naturally opening eyes is not distortion or hallucination (defined as 'seeing things which aren't there') But a kind of DEEP psychedelic-sensuous-feeling magnification of reality which is never wholly objective or wholly subjective but rather a dynamic ambiguous experience.