I have a hard time understanding people who can conceive that mental awareness but do not possess it. Surely the leap isn't that great. Bad trips inevitably end. The drug runs its course. Yeah, maybe it seems like forever, but even if you truly believe you are lost you're still going to come back eventually. It's not like we have control over reality anyway. You said "perceived control" so maybe you understand. Think of it this way: you have more control in the creative state given by psychedelics than you do in the numbed state given by alcohol, or the normal state of sobriety.many people are absolutely terrified of relinquishing any type of perceived control over their reality.
For me, it's a matter of working on the things I realized/accepted about myself before I push myself deeper. Like checkpoints. I tend to only trip when I feel like I need some internal guidance or to refresh from dealing with the default world, which isnt more than a couple times a year.