Ok, I will appeal to your obligatory response.
Meditate: I find form, like knees on the ground with my body aligned to my center of gravity, not moving. Instead of slowing my mind I readily accept what it has to show, and through this I find easement into accepting that mind cannot be blank( the backbone for the behavioral model of psychology). Its hard to explain but I find the practice of not thinking, or clearing the mind, merely a device to say what I just said, is just to find solemn understanding of what it is we are, and what it is we can know.
Mind racing: This is just a cop out, everyones mind is always racing, a reason why so many use drugs; in order to dissociate from the compulsory thought processes we have learned. Alcohol is used so often because it does just this, however one(me) does find alcohol does increase the speed and cohesion of my thoughts. Its like when you get drunk enough to be tripping and falling down, this is because the mind has fallen away from the stimulus; you recognize your falling but can't react to the correct stimuli.
Lucy's abusive side: This is usually just set and setting dependent I find. I haven't used it all that much, and only on blotter at varying dosages so its an unknown to me. The highest I have gone is 600mcg(estimated at 4/150mcg blotters), and I found this experience to be completely benign psychologically and in fact quite exhilarating. I did one trip at 200mcg and started it after staying up all night, no drugs prior, and while I was watching NETWORK. It began with a distrust for society, probably brought on by NETWORK. I began to understand about many aspects of human interaction and found that social understanding of the whole directly affected my interpersonal understandings. This trip was extremely introspective, but it began with dis-ease. That is all I meant from 'violently', just that it can elicit very disturbing or uneasy effects by creating an environment where nothing aligns correctly, but as my beliefs are confirmed or falsified I find it very quickly mellows out.
Obviously "bad trips" are just regular occurrences, but trying to guide one to understand that the good is within the bad, the good doesn't exist without the bad, will allow the subject to retain the deepening effects of the substance. Rather than getting scared and hiding behind their beliefs.
Yes they are ideals from my personal contact with the substance.
There are a never ending list of things not to do, as well each person will find their own ways to pull as much as they can from the experience if they choose to do it, but because so many are stuck admiring the simple visuals and sensory essence they get stuck caring about the mundane aspects because it is very hard to concentrate on large concepts but that loss of cohesion can really create new ways of thinking about the more answerless questions.
Peace