Animals live in the actual world. Humans live in a conceptual overlay, a dream we mistake for reality. We are blind drunk on symbols and stories, reacting to our own interpretations, not to what is actually happening.
Anyone who categorizes psychedelics as “a shortcut” or “an easy way” to dealing with internal issues has never done them. Not doing them is the easy way lol the confrontation with the self can be avoided through an entire life of scared sobriety.