I have had around 10 experiences with datura... and yes I would say it makes you learn to watch, accept and let go, mainly because scenes, very complex scenes flash before your eyes, some pleasant some unpleasant, but they're all part of the unseen worlds, and you seem to learn to appreciate that in that state.
Of course if you take a little too much, you don't remember as much, and Datura can even lead you to kill yoruself, but if you take too much you havent took time to aprehend and honor the plant which can be very dangerous even physically to the heart.
So yes eventually at one point datura seems to trust you and makes it more pleasant, you see no more snakes coming out of the box where you seek your cannabis to kill the nausea, and stuff like that ; it offers you long intricate chats with people you haven't seen in a while. I even chatted with plato once, very interesting man. And those people come by, open the door of your room and (I was young when I did they first trips) I stood up and went like... man damn don't open the door so loud, you'll wake up my parents ! but then you touch the door and poof it's never been opened... so you turn around and finally accept sone unreal things will happen to you, but you need not move, you must not move, you must accept and let go.
And then Datura can also make you travel inside your own body ; to the point where you eventually meet her inside you, thats a little freaky experience. So I wouldn't recommend this trip to anyone who has even the slightest impulsivity, or you could end up getting a knife to kill that wolf thats trying to eat your potato chips. Datura dosen't like immature or impulsive men, she will make fun of them, like even immoral fun.
To me there is much insight to be gained especially if you have a sitter that is stronger than you can can hold you back in case you stand up and try to do stuff, someone you really trust. You must also be sure your heart is strong, because it's not a harmless substance, it does take a few days to get back from the experience fully, even if it lasts only 12 hours or so at the right dosage.
Because you meet people, and they seem to never talk futile stuff, they talk about how you handle your life, how they think reality is in some ways, they warn you of bad people... etc... and it's all real if you manage to remember it. Just talking about it makes me miss it in a way ; but now I'm too sick to do it again.
About the medicinal use, well it can be used as any motion sickness medicine, for motion sickness, or to get to sleep, or for allergies (anti-histamine)... who knows someday you might see someone having a terrible life threatning reaction and run in the bush to find some datura and save his life it's very powerful and fast acting if you chew it well.
It's also a good aphrodisiac like all antihistamines, but it destroys your sexual power by allowing more dopamine than you normally would be able to squeeze out if you take it in the long term. But if you know you are going to spend one special night, then munching on a few seeds might be a great idea.
You have to take it all from the same plant, and try 2-3 at first, then if you feel nothing , 2-3 more... etc... you must learn to know how your body reacts to it before you know whats the right medicinal dose for you, and how much you need for an experience.
Usually when you get in the 20-30 seeds range you start to hallucinate, but at that stage, only 5-10 more seeds can make a major difference in the power of the visions ; so you better not take it all at once, and have someone watch you in case you say you can take more but you just hallucinate you're sober (datura loves to play tricks on people like that)
What I kept from this trip is to accept that life is an experience, and how I can use the mirror of others to understand myself better, it's a kind of practice for that, because you see many people flash by and they each remind you of archetypes.
And it also teaches you exactly the opposite of your question ; it teaches you not to forget anything, most people will forget the experience because what you see makes so much sense it can turn you crazy, but if you accept it as an experience, you just detached yourself to reattach better.
With amanita well... I have accelerated my spirit to the level of OOBE many times, and I learned many deep insights about my body, also how to save my life by drinking my own urine (I was VERY sick back then) and understand why people do not necessarly take responsibility for their own actions, in the metaphor that we shouldn't urinate, that the third sexual lotus is broken so people flush their karma down the earth without taking responsibility for it. It also gives you a feeling that you participate somehow to the grander view of things, that your opinion is noted... I don't know exactly the mechanism of this, which is why I'm here, but I hope we will find out soon enough !
But I still have to experience the living blood, and the "happy" intoxication it gives... I have only lived the "heavy" and deeply unpleasant detachment of the spirit, it's not fun AT ALL at these doeses (30 grams of highly potent african caps, reingested urine 2 and a half times.)
I actually tought I was dying, it detaches you from both pride and humility, both security and threat... it's a highly unsettling experience to be robed of all the polarities you're used to lean upon ; you stand there and see all of them and eventually go... oh well, and then fly up, and if you manage to keep enough emotional coherence, you go through the heart of the sun (you actually see that as flying towards it) then it all changes, and talk to yourself at ULTRA speeds, it's even too hard to keep up ; which is why everytime I experienced it I merely retained one insight.
It can also be very dangerous to dehydrate, I drenched my whole bed, through the matress, lots of water lost, if I wasn't experienced and knew how to "fight" the trip and stand up to drink, I would not have made it. I did this alone and it was a big error on my part, you not merely want someone with you, you want a woman with you, I don't know why but they have this way of reassuring you that no man can.
When you feel pathetic and speak to yourself and pee or ejaculate in your pants because you are loosing control, you want a woman to reassure you, or you will fight the trip ; because the amanita is not about "I give you everything all at once" it's a very intelligent presence and does not like to be rushed. I learned that the hard way.
As I said with ketamine, no content, just dream visions of the lost consciousness.
I always enjoy the dreamy inspiration on amanita.
