Universoul Mind

First off, I’d like to make known that all videos exhibiting the various salvia trips, even to the slightest degree, do no justice as to what the person is actually experiencing. Not only are they embarrassing themselves publicly, but they are also creating a negative impression of salvia, which plays right into the hands of people who would like to make it illegal. This is actually the case in some cities within the bay area that are now selling salvia as ‘incense’. Second point I’d like to make is that I am a responsible user, so I can accept any judgments made about my character. Whatever the case may be, the most alluring and valuable aspect of salvia’s effects is actually the inner experience.

To me, it’s a philosophical drug; it is for those who are open to observe their current reality from an alternate perspective. Of course, any fresh perspective brings an improved sense of enlightenment - and for some, a spiritual one.

My spiritual awakening began in November of 2009. Since then, I’ve noticed how rapidly my personal landscape was changing – from friends, to world views including politics, religion, history, the sciences, the economy, and finally, the genuine and permanent practice of compassion and love with anyone and everyone. Also, realizing I have existed before I was born into this life, triggered me to ponder the question: If I am not my name, my bank account, my profession, or my body, then who the hell am I if there is more to it than just my Earthly identity?

Our previously established answers have reestablished itself again as questions.

Nothing is definite. 

Not all is known.

What’s definite is the mystery.

Mystery serves as the fuel to our unending curiosity. This is what makes mystery beautiful.

As I now view the world from every conceivable angle, it has opened up new doors, and has closed just as many. I was disillusioned by the mental effort required to make a decision between two entirely different paths. One, material (which I’m used to), and the other, spiritual (which is the big ?uestion mark, the unknown). I currently work for the world’s largest records management organization – so do I stay put to advance my status and improve my monetary gains? Or do I take a more heartfelt path toward self-discovery into the unknown? I was hungry for the latter. Amidst my temporary sense of self-dejection, I decided to experiment with salvia divinorum, a psychedelic plant used by an indigenous group, specifically the Mazatec shamans from Mexico, and now a legal plant in most US states.

To test my tolerance, I took a 1/10 of a gram of 22x potency. I lit up, inhaled and held for 20 seconds. Then I asked to myself, “I wonder how long it would take until it hits me.” Before I even finished that thought, I was feeling it. It was nearly impossible to describe how it felt. It was as if all of my familiar reality was made of a flimsy, spongy fabric that was somehow being pulled into the teeth of a set of gigantic symmetrical enmeshed gears rolling together and drawing everything into its teeth. And on the other side of these gears side was another reality, a separate reality, and I was terrified that I would never come back to the ‘reality’ I came from. Gradually I got a grip on my familiar reality. I had survived, with the utmost respect for the entity behind this substance. For I had felt a presence; a powerful, detached observing presence.

When it finally wore off, a rushing feeling of deja vu dawned on me. I had dreamed exactly the same experience a few weeks before, only to be realized the moment my trip faded away. To have experienced deja vu from an altered state of being was significant to me, only because deja vu is almost always experienced from a sober state.

Ten minutes later after my trip, I put on a TV show called Fringe. A few minutes into the episode, the subject of deja vu was mentioned! My full attention was focused on the dialogue of Walter Bishop, who went into the theories of the deja vu phenomena. He then said, “I read somewhere that deja vu is fate’s way of telling you are exactly where you’re supposed to be. That’s why you feel like you’ve been there before.” The connections were so astounding. I felt an amazing sense of relief after I have been questioning my current path in life. I believed this was a message from another realm to put me at ease and that I was headed in the right direction.

Salvia is not an escapist drug. Quite the contrary, it is a philosopher’s tool, like I mentioned before. It motivated me to carefully examine my life and make positive changes. Given the consecutive and significant synchronicities, there’s no doubt in my mind that I have made a spiritual connection.

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