And although reality sometimes responds to clear thought and hard work, that's no guarantee either that it's going to turn out the way you expect, no matter how conscientiously you play by the rules.
Very true. This was one of the main points of Robert Burns' "To A Mouse."
As for the utility of chemically induced altered states, I couldn't disagree with you more. All experience is potentially of value, not because it necessarily teaches you something that might be useful, but because it increases the total number of experiences in your intellectual arsenal with which you can contrast and compare what is happening to you.
You have a good point about experience in general.
Still, not all experiences create a positive change in a person. I'm not sure doing something to your brain which actually screws up the process of thinking necessarily leads to an improved thinking process afterwards, any more than breaking a leg makes you walk any better after it heals. It might make you look more carefully at where you're walking to avoid it in the future...
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