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in a 360 degree turn around my body. I then felt a closeness with the aura of it all. I
got the feeling that Salvia was just one of a whole library of psychedelics just waiting to
be used. I then felt "normal" again and lied there still for a few moments, with my eyes
closed. M had wondered off and I heard him in the distance. I then heard footsteps
come behind the umbrellas, and then around them. I felt the presence of some old, yet
beautiful man (could have been a woman) sprinkle some dust on me. I didn't feel the
dust, but I felt something mentally. I then opened my eyes. If you have seen the movie
"Contact", I felt exactly like what happened to Jodie Foster as she crashed onto the
beach after being transported in that machine. Also, the scene afterward where she
comes back to earth, yet still feeling she was on that beach. BTW, this was about 5-10
minutes after I had smoked that last hit.
I sat up and walked off to the edge of the beach. I was left with a sort of knowingness.
I realized many things at this point after the experience. I would call THIS the best
part of the trip. The theories I had come up with the days before seemed to make
sense. EVERYTHING seemed to make total sense. I thought about the world I live in.
That didn't make sense. Commercialism, money, business, finance, government...that
made no sense. I realized that things such as fear (such of that of ghosts), jealousy,
anxiety, stress, fright...these were things that are human. These things are built into the
human mind to act as hurdles that we must jump. She said that things such as
fundamentalist religion and science were parts of this "human" quality. None of these
"human" things made sense. I realized that in the afterworld (or whatever), these
things are no longer present. The human brain acts as a filter for our soul. We can not
directly experience the things our soul feels, so it gets filtered through our brain. This
filter adds things such as fear and hate to the things that our soul feels. I felt like that
filter had been removed for a while. This could technically be called losing your mind,
though it had nothing to do with sanity. I repeated to myself "If only they knew". I
had the feeling of having gone to heaven. I was also shown the goodness of psychedelic
drugs. She told me that she had many, many "friends"...many of them haven't been
discovered yet. I walked back to the umbrellas to M. He asked me how it was. I just
sat there silent, meditative. I told him "I can't tell you what this is". I had no sense of
shock. I had no sense of WOW, no sense of surprise. It was just a sense of
knowingness, understanding, calmness, peace. I remained silent for the whole
"afterglow" period. Now, I look at things a different way. Salvia is definitely a
"teacher" plant. I now look upon her (and her friends) very seriously and in the
utmost respect. -Greendrag
(dextro50@lycaeum.org)
VI. METHODS OF USE
Q. How is Salvia used? What are the methods and how do they differ?
A. There are several different methods of using Salvia: These are discussed below
under the questions about smoking, oral, and other methods.
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