I became interested in Salvia Divinorum through Erowid a few years back and soon acquired some plain dry leaves from a friend. I went home and smoke the leaf several times out of wooden bowl I had carved and had a significant head change. later that night I sat in my bean bag chair and put on headphones of a long live performance of space by The Grateful Dead. Then closed my eyes, started smoking two large bong bowls and had the following dream. I was pulled out of my body into the presence of a large feminine entity. She had dark skin, long brown hair and stunning sharp facial features. She was communicating without speech but only with her face. Her eyes, cheeks and lips radiated with a motherly adoration. I was scooped up into the palm of her hand and lifted closer to her face. Suddenly she withdrew from me and I was left in an ocean. In the waves of the water were human like bodies. As the waves rolled the beings aged and when the waves settled they drowned. This went on for a while then I longed for the woman that had left me to return and she did. She stared at me longer and then through her lips she breathed a green aura into me that filled my entire soul up. She slowly faded away into a beautiful green mist and had left me alone in my room. to be continued...
Lucky you. I was weaved into some inanimate variation of the fabric of space-time continuum, against my will. I fought it with every fiber of my being and it was the most unpleasant drug-induced experience of my life. Glad you had a relatively nice experience, it doesn't happen often with Salvia.
ever get the sensation that reality is crunching together into these weird folds, which as a result you roll on the ground in order to avoid getting "sucked" into them until the point where everything is spinning in that same "crunching, folding" pattern. the whole time as this happens it feels as if my whole head and body is being split open into all of these "angles" or "lines" which are all different colours. as time goes on I'm able to remember the experience more and more vividly; randomly I'll get a feeling which will deeply remind me of the salvia experience.
When I tried salvia my entire body felt like it turned into metal and everything in my line of vision became extrememly fragmented. I felt like I was going to be stuck in that fragmented world forever...that was the first time I tripped anything, so I didn't understand what hallucinogens do to your sense of tilme. Really scary experience...except for one good friend, i was surrounded by people I didn't know. They didn't tell me salvia was a hallucinogen, they didn't really tell me anything about it. I was under the impression that it was similiar to pot. I feel bad condemning the drug when I tried it under entirely wrong circumstances, but that experience was enough to scare me away forever...i absolutely hated it. Salvia really isn't a hallucinogen to be taken lightly anyways, its typically done to experience an intense spiritual experiences under the guidance of a shaman.
Yes! Me too! Especially if I get good and baked and just sort of meditate on the experience, more and more pieces come back to me and I'm able to digest them a little better even months later. Strange! Even though I only had the 1 breakthrough and that was back in mid April I think, and I don't plan on revisiting for a while, I sometimes want to write a follow up report because I've been able to make so much more "sense" of it since the day it happened. I had LSD for the first time last week and pieces of the Salvia trip came back to me (definitely expected that) and I just about relived them, but Lucy was holding my hand and I wasn't scared And yeah, the crunching and folding sensation didn't have me rolling on the floor but it got me up and running around the room trying to "escape." My trip buddy was rolling on the floor when it was his turn, though. I think I've read some of your posts before and found lots of similarities in our trips. It's awesome when you find someone who's been there because trying to explain it to someone who hasn't is futile :cheers2:
I think the salvia entity is a dark presence. I don't trust it, and I've been asking my witch friend how I could purify myself from it. Seems demonic to me.
nice post OP, i enjoyed reading she sang to me with her eyes once and that encounter still touches me ..another time was deconstructing and just..no words for it letting go was always easy for me and maybe that's why i found my experiences with lady sal more positive (neutral, heh)
It seems like The Shepherdess is far more responsive to INTENT, people who go in with wonder and interest in her mysteries frequently are shown what they seek, if you are going in hoping you're going to stay sane or in control it seems to find ways to show you what you need to see, whether you are ready to understand it or not. If it is pulled on you there is almost always a trickster association, or some sense that your relationships are not real (but if your friends "surprised" you with Salvia isn't that probably a valid awakening?). If there are great awarenesses your brain has been percolating it will occassionally appear as an external person whose word you would trust... this has a long history, in Buddhism this is called a "meditational deity" and they teach that as long as you remember it comes from within you the teachings are fine. If you mistake that entity created from within with their external trigger the lesson is lost and frequently the person falls into psychosis. I see no difference between the entities that appear on Salvia and the meditational deities buddhists described. I have personally gone in with fairly clear will and intent each time and have received answers of intensity it sometimes took me months to process. As to things seeming to be familiar "the trip coming back" it seems to me this is portions of your trip that previously had no reference for you, and as long as I recognize and tune into what triggered that feeling I find other lessons unlock. Fascinating teacher so far...
i'm reevaluating this. i got the guts and smoked a tiny pinch of 20x this weekend. didn't break through, but felt all that weird proccess happening. fortunately, i knew all the time what was happening to me and what was causing that. i realized that i always see the same thing, it's always the same proccess in the same strange reality with the same weird materia, which i become a part of. i'm a very rational man with no religion or superstitions, but once you experience salvia, it's very hard to fully believe that you're not being controlled by an outer "something" in the trip. there is something very strange about this plant. it doesn't feel like a drug, but a brief journey to somewhere you're not supposed to be.
About a year my brother and I decided to go to my sister in law's farm and trip... we smoked 5x, 10x and 15x at different times during the night. The 5x got me buzzed and the 10x made me think I was at my Aunt and Uncle's house 700 miles away. But When I smoked the 15x I was laying in the middle of a field by the Ohio River miles away from any light pollution at all. I look up to see None other than a very naked Lady Salvia Jumping down from space centered right above me... She stopped and floated on the atmosphere. The strange thing is is that it was the same woman who picked me up in my previous trip. At the ends of her hair came legs and between the legs came more hair connected to more of basically Lady Salvias in a pattern across my field of vision. I was laughing so hard and yelling "THERE ARE NAKED LADIES IN THE SKY!" which I am still teased about to this day... I just remembered about this thread and wanted to share more... thanks for reading. more to come.
Apparently the shepherdess was not pleased with my life at one point. I went to a friends house to snort and eat different pills and smoke whichever drugs we could find. At this point I was fucked up all the time. Sobriety was not an option for me or at least it seemed. So Swim had some salvia and gave me a oney full.. I took a hit and instantly I felt a strong presence over me holding my shoulders telling (in English clear as day) me to get up, leave and to never try and take part in her gift for any recreation. This scared the shit out of me to say the least and I tried to run out the door. Swim stopped me and assured me I was fine and gave me some valium to calm me down. Since then I won't smoke S to have fun... only for a learning experience. I have never really believed in deities until I smoked Salvia. She is real.. and she knows my name.
