first salvia trip

hey everyone,

i'm doing salvia for the first time tonight. i'm a little nervous and excited and hopeful. i've been reading up on salvia like crazy and i think that this is going to be a real mind expanding experience. i'm using a tincture (an extract of the active ingredient in salvia, salivorum a, suspended in grain alcohol and water) to administer the drug. i'm not down with smoking something that a culture believes is part of their bodies and religion. i think it's disrespectful.

i'll report back this evening after the trip and let you all know how it goes. i hope you'll check back later and take a read. is there anyone who has taken salvia successfully (or unsuccessfully, i guess) and would be willing to share their experiences? i would appreciate it. thanks guys! talk to you soon!

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this is a letter that i just wrote to the founder of sagewisdom.org. he is one of the original people who brought salvia divinorum to western culture in the past 20 years. no trip report here. just a really shaken up, changed guy.

Dear Daniel,
I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for making this sacred plant available to Western culture. Thank you for doing it respectfully and with the willingness to share it freely. I purchased the tincture from you and had my first salvia experience this evening. Thank you.

I'm not going to bore you with a "trip report". I think that that cheapens the experience. I also am not going to try to verbalize my experience. I think that the profound effects of salvia divinorum can't be put into words. I feel different, like nothing is ever going to be the same. I ate some food to ground myself after my experience. The food wasn't the best I'd ever had or the sweetest or anything like that, but it was real. The reality of the food going into my mouth was different than it used to be. My reality is different. I don't know how else to say it. I guess that's why I am writing to you, because I know you will understand what I mean. I really understand the concept of "us" and "them" now. I am now a part of a group of people who have used salvia divinorum in the way that it was meant to be used, respectfully and carefully and with deep care to experience it's mind expanding effects openly. And then there is the group of people who have not experienced that. And we are profoundly different people. It's strange.

Well, I hope that this letter finds you well. I hope that whatever you are doing, you are blessed in it. Thank you again.

Namaste

there you go, guys. i don't know how else to express it. wow.

Originally Posted by PoTaHoLiK

Well i remember my first trip vividly. and it was about 6 months ago. I was all by myself, outside on the balcony 27 floors up. I used a glass pipe, and took my first hoot and held it in. I started to feel a little tingly. So i took a second hit. I don't even remember exhaling, all i remember is it felt like someone was trying to pull me to another dimension, and he was telling me that this world isn't real, comeback to the real world. I really had to fight for my life. His hands had a strong grip on me and wouldn't let go. Right away I knew that I was trippin hard, so I reached for my phone to call my sister. To get back in touch with reality. Well I tried calling her 5 or 6 times, and each time the operator would come on saying the number u are trying to reach is not in service. Well that little voice in my head loved that 1 and took advantage right away. He started telling me "See This world isn't real, no phone numbers are real, come back to the real world". Well This kinda tripped me out a bit, so I figured I'd lay down for a minute to clear my head. Boy was I wrong. This thing started to pull me through the couch, repeating "What are you waiting for? Let's go"I just couldn't escape this guy. So I tried once more to call my sister. Finally I got through, and almost as quickly as the trip started, it was over. I spent the next 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell just happened. I've tried salvia a couple more times, and haven't tripped again, all i get is the lego effect if u will. Everything around kinda looks like lego people, and their movement are quite shaky. I've done a little bit of research on the effects of salvia, and to my surprise I'm not the only person to have this trip. Many people have had the exact same trip as i had. That someone or something is trying to pull them to another dimension. All in all it was definitely trip, and id recommend it to anyone. Its definitely an experience. and I only tried the 20x. Imagine what the 80x would do....lol

I would of been like ok lets go man your right this world aint real lol