Avoid reality? Ayahuasca slaps you so hard with reality there's a reason every article and guide on ayahuasca says to not take the experience lightly.
Example: Been a dick to others around you and are totally unaware of it? You go to an ayahuasca retreat, drink some juice that tastes like electric puke, lay down and feel the worst nausea you've ever felt. You know it's working when you start seeing colors racing around you in the most beautiful patterns while you roll and squirm from the intense need to vomit your guts out. The colors and patterns start taking the form of people, animals, half-people half-animals, aliens, whatever works for you. They can look like geometric lines and wireframes, or like the most hyper-realistic 3D rendered graphics running on computers we can't even dream of yet.
And then they start talking to you. Not with voices, telepathically. They think at you, and you don't reply they just know what you're thinking as you think it. They don't just tell you what you've done wrong, they make you feel what you've made someone else feel. They put you in every memory of every situation where you've treated someone unfairly except now you're the one taking it. It happens over and over and over rising in intensity while you just want the experience to stop but there's no getting off this ride.
Eventually things slow down and become peaceful. You're left with a sense of hyper-awareness of things you've done wrong and ways you need to change, and the way it was thrown at you with such ferocity makes it something you never forget. The authenticity of the message is undeniable, it feels as if it came from a higher being. It did, and that being was yourself being high as fuck. You put something in your brain that forced it to change the way thoughts travel around, a bunch of new paths opened up, and chunks here and there that don't normally say a thing to each other start talking and figuring out the big picture. And they didn't like how it was going.
That's the difference between psychedelics and other substances people use, such alcohol/pills/feel-good dopamine overloads that make you feel good despite how much your reality might suck. Why there are countless reports on psychedelics helping people in so many ways, from helping with addiction to other drugs, ptsd, depression, etc. Why do so many people swear on psychedelic experiences changing their lives for the better? You ever see articles like that about meth, heroin, alcohol, etc? "Yeah drinking every night cured my PTSD... click to read more" I don't think so.
The only bleak thing about the future is if people stay ignorant to new information. Go check out some studies and articles on psychedelic therapy, learn some stuff. Maybe go to an ayahuasca retreat some day and get your ass mentally whooped, and somehow feel grateful you did.
Source: Did ayahuasca 3 times
