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Erowid Experience Vaults: Salvia Extract - A Total Mind/Body Trip
but no sooner did he perceive it than he was rolled under again, becoming one with the totality of the
cosmos. He would then roll back into the room again and see us briefly, knowing that he was about to be
rolled right back under, and was fearful that this process was never going to end. He said the image that
came to mind was being rolled up in straw mats, becoming one with the mat, with no differentiation between
self/other. At one point, when he sat up and rested his hands on the carpet, he perceived himself as resting
his hands on an ocean of fish, packed very tightly. As he rolled back into the room, he would perceive the
floor as being about chest high, with only his upper torso and head emerging briefly, followed by becoming
totally dissolved back into the ground. As he was comforted by his wife, he was concered that he would take
her under with him when the next roll came around. Thus in the intensity of the experience it was a total
body/mind trip, with no ability to distinguish this as merely an altered state of consciosuness. This was the
most powerful psychedelic experience my friend had ever had, bar none! He said, 'It's right up there with birth
and death!'
Star was so impressed with the intensity of my friends experience that she opted to try it before the night was
out. She insists that the Salvia trip is one of the big ones of her life, right up there with the mushroom, bigger
than DMT. When Star does Salvia she usually leans back on the couch and laughs and laughs until it is over,
really enjoying the ride. She has a wonderful capacity to let go and flow with the experience. The first time it
hit her she laughed and exclaimed, 'God Bless that little plant!' She took two small hits from the pipe and
leaned back on the couch, launching into her usual laughter. However, when she would come back into the
room, I noted a look of absolutely amazed astonishment on her that I had not seen before. Her reaction to the
denatured alcohol extract was quite extraordinary, noting that it was very smooth and easy to smoke, and
also the most powerful one to date. As she came out of the experience, Star would look at A. and exclaim,
'Pobrecito A.!' (poor little one!).
The experience was so incredible that my friend opted to postpone the DMT until another day. Having done
both, Star puts DMT more on the level of the mushroom, and Salvia in a unique class of its own; the Salvia
being much more powerful! So, if anyone has not had the Leaves of the Shepherdess grab ahold of them yet,
I would suggest using denatured alcohol as the solvent, concentrating say 30 leaves down onto about 5, and
then boldly proceeding, but also with circumspection: be sure to have a sitter watching over you!
Exp Year: 1996 ID: 2140
Added: Jun 26, 2000
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