hey great topic

Psychedelics (and other methods) definitely tap our minds and affect it for the better. After the appropriate experience you'll realize that the way of acting you had it's flawed, or at least, not very thought out, since it's the way you have always acted since you were little. The way a lot of people behave it's not a conscious choice but rather their "default" method of going through things. And this default state it's not necessarily the best one. This, of course, unless you had some major change in perspective from early age; if this is the case, you're lucky

So promoting this shift in view it's definitely a good thing to do, with pot, with meditation, with whatever. Thinking outside the box, out of boundaries, arbitrary mind-made barriers and self inflicted delusions

Say Purple Banana, you knew that essentially what you are describing has been done before right? in fact, we, our "modern" society, right now, it's the deviation from the norm since this clubs had been in effect in ancient times with shamans and all that. The greeks too had a special club for this that lasted 2000 years! they were called the Eleusis Mysteries, and for getting in you had to go for 3 days to a special place where you were prepared for it! The only rule was that you couldn't have killed anyone. What rules would yours have?

And yes, Dr Leary sort of made one too, in Mexico a while ago, but things didn't end well...