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Nobody claims that psychedelics work in the way we were told antidepressants did in the 1990s: they don't change your brain chemistry and therefore "fix" you. No. What they do is give you--when the experience goes well--a remarkable sense of connection, for a very short period. "The value of the experience," Andrew told me, is to "show you the possibility"--how connection can make you feel. Then, he says, "it's up to you to find other ways to maintain the experience." Its value is not as a drug experience but as a learning experience. And you need to keep practicing the lesson, one way or another.