National geographic is considered a complete joke by scientists and is funded by right wingers so i wouldn't waste a second reading anything there about recreational drugs....
tl;dr "fundamentally change how the brain is processing information and relating to the world, and that can shake people up in ways that could be conducive to therapeutic change, in terms of breaking people out of ruts and usual ways of perceiving"
Feels like "shakes things up" isn't really the clear scientific breakthrough I was hoping to read