Critical listening and altered states

You listen with your brain not your ears. The ears are only the hole the sound comes thru.
Altering brain chemistry can increase pleasure but usually at the expense of true critical thinking. If you’ve ever written down those mind bending epiphanies and read them back the next morning you’ll know what I mean.
If you think the stereo sounds better high and all your doing is listening what can be better than that? On the other hand making large purchases not including pizza is probably not the best decision you can make in the long run.

Altered States,,, great movie.  Especially when high

ebm <get high ASAP!!!> ebm

@mikelavigne Thanks for taking the question seriously and answering it in such detail. 

To others denigrating the idea of changing one's state of mind is not about getting "wasted." That is an interpretation that says more about fear than anything else.

The idea is not about altering one's state because their system is already good enough. To see why not, simply read the OP again, perhaps more slowly this time.

The idea is about challenging ruts. As anyone who attends to their own experience knows, we often listen with preconceptions and biases which confine how and what we hear. One needs to sometimes loosen up or shake things up a bit so see things differently.

What I see in the accounts of systems that have improved over time, their owners did something to push their own limits. That could be listening to a friend's system, or new music, or even altering their mental state somehow. It's not "poisoning" their mental state, whatever the eff that means. (Puritan alert!)