On the one hand, it is a chance to put into practice the insights gained from looking deep within ourselves. There is no barrier here to the expansion of a mind willing to go the distance. With proper planning, an idea can be allowed to unfold into 3-D space regardless of how grandiose or abstract. There is plenty of room for everyone. At the same time, the harshness of the environment simplifies the usual distractions of biology.
Comfort here is a chair in a patch of shade, a spritz of cooling mist.
Everything is covered in dust. The requirements of the body form a clear, communal backdrop against which the Imagination claims its proper place at the center of community. I have always maintained that if nothing else, psychedelics impel us outside of our habits of thought and behavior. From this vantage, we can look back at our lives. We can see which parts of our identity are solid, and which fade with a change of scenery.