Mystical
World shattering experience
by Sandesh
Salvia, though still legal in many countries in the world, remains very much unknown, even for the experienced drug users. However I think it is no coincidence that it has appeared on the world stage only recently, no longer than 20 years ago.
Despite the availability of many good drugs like LSD which have the ability to change your perception of the world forever, it seems the time has come for Nature to reveal its one of the most exquisite secrets -Salvia Divinorum. In some ways I feel, it being a natural plant, that it creates a connection between the smoker, a bond that is very important for our current times and that many of other good drugs (like mentioned above LSD) are lacking. However it is the experience that is most important here and I see Salvia as something so great and at the same time so shattering that has the potential to really change the course of world affairs (or at least start/influence them very much).
Most of the users describe their experiences as being transported to other worlds and thus still having some sort of content. Mine, in most cases have no form.
Around 30 seconds after the hit I enter what can only be described as void / infinity / emptiness. These words however will not suffice at all, as we interpret them through our own everyday experience. The most important factor that need to be added here is intensity. Throughout the experience you (yourself, the ego, the "I") is totally lost, there is no trace whatsoever of yourself and also of the world. There is only one intense experiencing of the void. I must stress again: there is absolutely nothing there, no experiencer, no experience, so do not cling to any of these words. Only after you come out of it slowly, after a few minutes, when the intensity fades out with every second, your brain start working with his usual automatic need to describe everything and then the words come up like: totality, enormous space, endless bliss, serenity and finally great joy. All those years you have been fooled thinking that what you see and hear, what people say to you and what you learn at school and from tv is final reality and there is nothing else. And now the joy to discover this is utter and complete bullshit!
Now you know this small film of reality we perceive everyday is just a tiny fraction of what the world really is. Now all those eastern words of wisdom you heard here and there start to make sense. These guys have always talked about THIS! When the veil of everyday reality comes off you suddenly see the world beyond space and time, in its infinite glory. And you are it, not a part, but the very center of the existence. The separation of the "I" and world in time space matrix is just an illusion, there is only one eternal and infinite existence. And when you return back to the world what you want most now is to share this wonderful news with as many people as possible. The influence of the current industrialized world, full of politicians and priests is so heavy we need now the true, crystal clear experiences of our existence as it is, so the balance can be restored. Salvia is not about adding another blisful experience to your polished ego, it is about total and unreversible destruction of yourself and of your world view. For many it will seem unwanted but for the couragous ones the reward will be endless tears of gratitute as the great long-carried burden will fall off their chests forever.