The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And that going inward by staying in the eye mask, at least for the majority of the time, seems to be a very, if not, the critical feature of making the psilocybin journey effective in the therapeutic sense.
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And provided psilocybin is present at sufficient enough concentration that is taken at a sufficient dosage, one will experience profound visual hallucinations regardless of whether or not their eyes are open or their eyes are closed.
But I think if one's goal is to derive long-lasting benefit from the psilocybin experience, it's very clear that having an eye mask or some other eye covering or something that ensures that one's eyes are closed for the majority, if not, the entire psilocybin session is going to be very useful because it's going to limit the extent to which one is focused on those outside changes in visual perception a.k.a. hallucinations and rather will allow the person to go inward to combine whatever it is that they happen to be seeing in their mind's eye with the different thoughts and memories and changes in their emotions that are occurring.