I never fully disconnected to my inner child, had a brief period of my life where I tried to act all mature and pretentious and suppressed some habits but slowly diverged back to my natural self.

Today I can confidently say that I am a productive and respected member of society while keeping my inner child up and I'm very very happy with it! So in my eyes it's possible to be both in today's world

I still catch up with him occasionally but we both got older and now we don't have as much in common as we used to

Yes, you can take some psychedelics in order to shake your brain out of its decades of set pathways. All children's minds are open and lack set thought patterns and pick up on reality in full. An adult brain is set in its pathways and doesn't do much in the way of processing truly new information. Very few things are able to get people out of their set neurological pathways, psychedelics is one of them. You can also practice meditation and Buddhist or daoist excercises like the whole 'learn to look at a tree without calling it a tree' thing. Honestly though microdosing on psylocibin mushrooms are easier, quicker, and more gaurenteed to give you the results you want. As an added bonus will blast the depression and anxiety right out of your brain if you are suffering from those particular mental issues.

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