One has to take into account both mind set and social setting
Although pheromones are, among other things, fluidizers… perhaps analagous to dietary supplements that fluidize (and hypothetically rejuvenate) rigid, aged cellular membranes, or something akin to that, fluidization alone doesn’t produce spontaneous growth… my belief, or working model for the moment is three things are required… a fluidizer, whether a skillful ritual trance induction, a psychotropic substance, some powerful natural phenomenon that disrupts ordinary consciousness (intense meteor showers, volcanic eruptions, mega-weather) or, in our case, or possibly pheromones IF used correctly… so, you have something that assists in changing the inertia of the present mental state… trance, shock, shamanic drumming, cactus alkaloids… spring break at miami beach…
Then you have to have a context… shamanic drumming down at the local mall probably won’t serve as well as shamanic drumming under a full moon deep in a canyon in Utah…
And it helps greatly to have a culture (which implies shared intention, desire, goal directions) of growth or transformation or healing… either that or some intense personal experiences that are teachable… if the social goal is getting shitfaced and hopefully laid you might not tap into the same energy planes as you would in the presence of a lineal master of an ancient tradition…
So there briefly is the A, the B and the C of it… all of that rests on the presupposition that there IS deep level free will, that one can choose aspects of one’s essential being…