Salvia Divinorum Diary

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Several months ago I provided the list with a link to the 'Salvia Divinorum

Research & Information

Center'.

http://sagewisdom.org/

Salvia is a legal herb with a long history of use by Mexican shamans used for

'vision quests' and

spiritual healing. I had several sessions with unfortified leaf shortly after I

provided the link to

the list with mixed results. Recently I have experienced several sessions with a

fortified extract

that I have prepared myself. The result of the extract is about 6 x more potent

than regular,

unfortified leaf. To help quench anyone's curiosity about the herb I have

decided to share the first

entry of my 'Salvia Diary'. This is the account of my first session with a

fortified extract (which

lasted about 10 minutes). All in all, it's become apparent that this herb might

indeed offer

remarkable healing potential for *some* seekers.

 

Anyway, if anyone does experience a resonance to court the spirit of Salvia

Divinorum, do not, under

any circumstance do so without serious study and preparation.

 

For a comprehensive compilation of other user's experince with Salvia see

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Salvia_divinorum.shtml

 

Blessings,

David

 

9/27/01 [early morning] 6x Hawaiian Extract on Mexican leaf

 

1 hit – Level 5 [1-6 scale] Most intense experience yet. Began with the “point”

of my awareness

“located” in my head getting “stuck” or “frozen” off center [up and to the

right] to where I focused

my eyes/awareness. Found this slightly annoying and caught myself repositioning

my head in attempt to

“recenter”. I quickly learned this was a futile approach and simply relaxed

which “recentered” that

little “spot” of awareness located in the head. Then there was folding, linear

energy on each side

[right & left] folding upward/inward. Sensed it as a form of conscious awareness

with an overall

neutral attitude toward me. It pulsed/folded to a 7 beat rhythm. Like the “all

good children go to

heaven.” rhyme. Heard/felt the words “but he can’t go” on the “go to heaven”

beat portion as I was

floating in between the conscious folding energy on both sides and slipping

further and further away

(inward?) from my body. “He” was a reference to my body, which I felt quite

distant from, and I felt

myself as a conscious, amorphous, abstract ‘something’, but not solid. As with

previous sessions, I

attempted to hold onto the experience to bring back with me when I would return

so I could make sense

of it then. During the session, I am always certain that I will indeed return

and experience no fear

about getting stuck “there”. Upon returning, the experience once again proves

to be too bizarre and

abstract to “bring” back with me, much like with bizarre, abstract dreams that

defy all our

conventional ways of understanding in ordinary, waking reality. In exploring and

contemplating the

deviation between ordinary waking reality and Salvia’s reality [post session] I

find myself

reintrigued with the true nature of who I am on a more intense level/burning.

The metaphor I can use

for this is how each of our eyes, spaced slightly apart “compute” or infer

distance of what we look at

without either eye revealing distance individually. [distance corresponding to

truth, god, who I am,

whatever] With ordinary reality and “altered” reality, of course, corresponding

to each of our

respective eyes. Similarly, tragic events and sudden disruptions in life are

also known to yield

deeper insight into the nature of the world and who we are.

[end entry]

 

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