[Salvinorin Space Travel]
I loaded the little bowl with the green powder and fired up. Gee, a nice hit. I did two more bowl/hits and laid down on my bed. Within 10 seconds I was in salvia space. That familiar feeling was back. I felt like I was traveling through a dark void. Then the colors came. Orange and then green. I felt like Dave in 2001 when he was entering Jupiter's atmosphere (if you've seen the movie, you'll know what I mean). The music took on a rather lucid tone. Each instrument was radiantly clear. Then synesthesia set in. I saw these entities marching in procession to the music. They were like people - individuals - but they looked like brown dominos without the dots! But what they really were representations of the music. Each note from the saxophone was a distinct "person" with an identity.
It is clearly not a classic hallucinogen. It seems to send one into a dream-like state, where one's mind is free from the body. And like dreams, the experience is always unique. I didn't have any encounters this time around with alien entities like I often do. (Who are those "people"?) More research definitely needs to be done on this miraculous plant teacher. It's very hard to write trip reports about salvia. Words don't do justice in expressing the sheer weirdness and profundity of the salvia space.
[Each Grain of Sand – A Star]
I found myself on a beach while under the influence of smoked Salvia D. leaf. I managed to forget that I had smoked Salvia and I "woke up" on this beach. It was so bright that I looked at the sand and each grain of sand turned into a star and I was bathed in piercing light. The light was so bright that I became disoriented and I thought I was walking on a sidewalk against the side of a building and the sun was reflecting off the cement, which I assumed was creating the bright lighting. Then the sidewalk and the wall began to "squeeze" me and I became sandwiched between the two planes and felt like I was being crushed. I immediately became somnambulant and took a little walk around my living room, which to me appeared to be a series of interconnecting labyrinths. As I sat back down on the couch, I could see the room with my eyes open and I finally remembered that I had smoked Salvia.
[Spinning to the Core of the Abyss]
As these two ideas collided with the thought that I had a son of my own…something deep inside, something twisted and knotted up got pulled, and straightened out into a sort of smooth, fibrous multi-layered/dimensional tube, or matrix of tubules, made up of feelings/memory/understanding. I was instantly aware of and "face-to-face" in a manner of speaking, with myself as an eight-year-old boy. I was myself as an adult in the cabin and also myself as a boy, connecting with and through all of my "selves" in-between. Also, I experienced the connection, the chain of my relationships, the generational lifeline, with my father on one side of me and my own son on the other side of me. It's definitely impossible to describe this in any temporal or three dimensional way, because the connections all interwoven and overlaid, my clear "sight" and understanding of the dynamics, was all there all at once, instantaneously with absolute lucidity in a seemingly eternal, atemporal, non-spatial "space".
[Tunnels]
As I became part of this swirling, spiraling vortex I could feel a similar swirling in my body that had a "pins and needles" type of feel to it. It was powerful but not unpleasant. I don't know how but I came to understand that these cones were being laid down, i.e. like a road. Also this "road" had to come right through my friends house and our bodies included!! Why? because these tunnels contained the meaning of everything that has ever existed. So although I may not of wanted to become part of a cone I had to because me, my body etc is included within the division "everything that exists". At this time I was not watching this like a spectator but completely immersed in it, I had no recollection of having smoked salvia and what was happening was utterly real. I also believed my friend was experiencing exactly the same thing.
… I lay back shut my eyes and almost immediately the visions returned (closed eyes this time) I saw multi coloured paper-chains linked together and spreading everywhere. I thought that they represented probabilities. The probabilities of ANYTHING HAPPENING to anything or anyone at any time. It seemed like these probabilities exist throughout past present and future simultaneously. So for example If I say "hello" in one moment in time accompanying the event (saying hello) are many "non-events" i.e. the non-events of me saying goodbye, the non-event of me not saying anything etc. So this event is not just determined by itself, but also by countless "non-events" which assist in determining the event ! After this I enjoyed a peaceful, contented afterglow for about ten minutes and repeatedly found myself saying "WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE SUBSTANCE!!!"
[On the Amazon]
Last night we tried salvia for the first time and found it quite a bewildering experience. After two or three tokes, the room began to swirl. I found myself in a boat on a river in the Amazon jungle. I could feel the wood of the side of the boat and feel the sun as real as the room had been a few moments before. I remember lying on the floor of the wooden boat, trying to sit up. After a short while, 3 mins, I realized that I had rolled off the bed and was lying next to the radiator, trying to pull myself upright. After this I felt stone cold sober, if a little strange. I was quite surprised by how I had felt when in the boat, as it felt so normal as to be hardly worthy of mention. It felt like I had done this a million times before, what was the fuss about?
[Tibetan Sunset]
…I was soon transported to another place. I didn't recognize the surroundings but everything felt very real, it was evening, about an hour before darkness. I could feel the wind on my face and the grass below my feet. The landscape was a steep grass-desert and in great distance I could see a herd of animals. At this point I started thinking about where the place could have been and concluded it must be Mongolia/Tibet or some adjacent region. I started running towards the herd (there was also a person and the presence of people could be felt). I don't remember how I got to the "camp" but I found myself among those nomad people: there was a woman with a child who looked at me but completely ignored me. Somewhat later two knights (dressed in bright red, very much like the mother but more brilliant) came and also looked at and ignored me.
[Salvinorin A – The Breakthrough]
…I searched my memory trying to remember the living room I was sitting in just moments before. I tried to remember what my body felt like. Anything, just something to reconnect me with the "normal" world. But the more I looked for some little thread of "normality" to get a hold of, the more it showed me something else. At some point I realized that what I was trying to get back to did not exist. It was just an ephemeral dream. I suddenly realized that I had no actual memory of ever having lived in any other state of consciousness but the disembodied condition I was now in. So I decided to stop panicking and just relax. After all there was no place to get back to. I was totally convinced that this state of existence was all there ever was.
Then, I suddenly found myself standing in the living room. The effects of the substance were wearing off. All of the confusion dissolved, and I returned to the physical world. I looked around me and the room came into sharp focus. I was glad to be back. But then I saw that something was wrong! This was not my living room. It was the living room of my deceased maternal grandparents. And it was furnished as it was when I was a child, not as it was later in their life. The most extraordinary thing about this was that this was the real world, not a memory or vision, I was really there, and it was all just as solid as the room I'm sitting in now. I had the sudden realization that although I had managed to pull my self back into my body - I had somehow ended up back in the wrong spot in the timeline of my physical existence. I was convinced that I might be stuck in this situation and would have to continue my life from this point in my past. As I panicked and desperately tried to remember where it was that I was supposed to be - I lost awareness of the physical world again, and found myself without a body; lost. Then it happened again. I found myself regaining consciousness in the real world. And, again as soon as I saw everything clearly, I realized that this was not my home, it was a friend of mine's. Then again I panicked and lost consciousness. This cycle repeated at least 7 or 8 times. Always I would find myself in a familiar room. Some of these places were from my childhood and some were from my more recent past. In this state all the points of time in my personal history coexisted. One did not precede the next. Apparently, had I so willed it; I could return to any point in my life and really be there, because it was actually happening right now.