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Dale Pendell: Salvia divinorum
The essence of the Path of Leaves is just a few friends sitting around in a
dark room, perhaps drinking a little beer or tequila. Some talking. Maybe
some singing or chanting. To how many people does that sound like a good
time?
What a joke! No wonder some people can't stop laughing.
Or maybe the darkness is to keep others from looking in.
It may always have been a cultish plant, something on the edges.
La Maria is shy. She needs the darkness to illuminate the Logos.
Or maybe the nighttime tradition is to avoid interaction with the rootless. The Ally will take you
beyond the little social games that sustain the daylight. You will see the rigidity, but you may
not see the importance of sometimes playing along. An uncompromising insistence on the
absolute could get quickly boorish.
Besides, daytime you have a job and have work to do.
Effects:
Holographic. Even a very tiny amount of smoke can reveal the whole panorama. Dimly, to be
sure, but all there, just the same.
The Ally:
There was no me, but there was no not-me.
The most "Zen" of any plant ally excepting rice.
Effects:
Staggering. Lurching. But not like drunkenness: the mind is completely clear. The effect is
reminiscent of kava.
On The Logos:
The poison has entered the Word. Words become stepping stones, a floating walkway to cross
the chasms between.
What we really are is a web of interconnections, the summation of all of our relationships, all
the people we know and those we are still to meet. It's not that we are in the web, the web is
what we are. Vowel sounds change the colors; pitch and tone alter the shape of the enclosing
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