Users of DMT, or participants in the ayahuasca ceremony, often advocate for the drug because they claim that it really opens a portal to another dimension and godlike beings there. The trip is very much the point, not mere vague benefits like neuroplasticity or developing more empathy. Indeed, I can imagine some DMT advocates claiming that an approach of applying psychedelics without inducing an actual trip, is the man's attempt to intentionally deprive people of contact with those extradimensional entities.