QUOTE(Praxis @ Mar 27 2006, 12:09 PM)
Okay.
Salvia Divinorum.
Could member here who acutally have used this tool for stimulating awareness please share some accurate explanations for what exactly the beneficial effect is?
Salvia divinorum, when smoked as an extract - I'll agre with Bym here, the leaves have NEVER managed to get me anywhere; actually, i believe something like sixty fresh leaves were chewed by the mexican shamans - has always given me a sense of weightlessness which can be incredibly disorienting if you try to stand up, walk around, etc.
I've had two really intense salvia trips using 20x extract. It should be noted that these experience are VERY briefly paraphrased, because salvia trips occur in more than the standard 4 dimensions of perception. Freaky freaky.
The first trip, three deep hits from a water pipe, started out by giving me a sensation of pins and needles all over my skin. Not an unpleasant tingling, although it did have a peak intensity in which I really thought I might need to scratch every inch of my body intently.. resisting the urge, however, I laid back onto my pile of cushions and watched the shadows from the candle light play over my walls, altar, etc. almost as soon as I turned my attention from my body, I felt like I was slipping sideways, specifically to the left, and actually, visually, saw the room change angle with me. I was instantly out of body. After that I looked intently at my altar and found that there was a kind of 'tear' in the structure of it. So, I moved forward into the altar, and through the tear, and found myself in a long, long hallway with many doors of all sorts of different decorations, shapes, sizes, symbols, and sensations. I managed to examine three doors before I felt the call back to my body, and the end of the trip. They were all large doors with words written on them in some kind of dream language that was more like writing with a collection of sensory details than an alphabet. Hard to accurately convey. Each of the doors turned out to be entrances to three different aspects of my magickal persona (worth noting that I did this first trip with the intention of understanding magick more thoroughly, it's practice, origin, purpose, etc.). The whole thing took maybe an hour of 'dreamtime' - popped back into my body, it was a five minute trip.
Second trip, five deep hits, and this time I didn't actually 'leave' my body in the manner before, but rather the world around me just melted into another dimension. Probably the astral, but far more intense and alien than I have experienced on my own. I can't even describe it other than to say that the origins, and future states, of everything around me, kind of piled up so that I was experiencing non-linear time in my immediate environment. From inbetween all of that, I met an entity who constituted the concept of emotional expression. Our conversation was private and took place, again, in many extra dimensions, but that was the night that I overcame the brunt of my emotional baggage and finally started to feel. It was intense.
While mushroom trips have been more intense, longer, and less phsyically debilitating, I have found that Salvia trips, both time, have been more constructive and powerful. Salvia will seriously bend time, and reality, completely out of context. The average trip is very fast in linear time. Five to ten minutes, tops. If you can surrender to the experience, you can spend hours in between dimensions before coming back.
SanqueDiNapoli, if you're interested still, I have some extract that I don't intend on using anytime soon. I live in NYC as well, I'd be happy to give it to you.
peace
Salvia Divinorum & Nightshade.
SangueDiNapoli Salvia Divinorum & Nightshade. Feb 21 2006, 09:39 PM
Feb 21 2006, 09:39 PM
