Hello VertigoShaman,

I find Salvia to be one of the most difficult plant allies to tame.  If plain leaf is to be respected and feared in its own right, how much respect does potentiated leaf demand from us in order to safely teach us anything meaningful?  The extracts provide a quick and deceptively painless way to travel incomprehensible distances from our perception of ordinary reality.  Life, as I have experienced it till now leads me to believe that there is never a painless way to achieve greatness, whether it's greatness in distance, in character, in speed, or anything else.  My waking experience may be lying to me, but it still provides me with the best basis for assumptions.  I am very much into "seeing a whole new world" as you put it.  The moon is beautiful and far away, I often wish I could be able to travel that far, enjoying a coffee and a cigarette comfortably on its surface.  The reality is likely to be that my coffee would freeze, my cigarette wouldn't light up and my body would be ripped inside out from the vacuum of space.  During a salvia breakthrough we are flung to what we perceive to be beyond the ends of the universe, beyond other dimensions, into salvia space, an alien realm much farther and harsher than the familiar environment of our moon.  How will we protect ourselves there?  How do we grasp anything meaningful from the experience when we have no idea how we got there and no clue as to how we got back home?  What do you think?  I think we should be careful not to fly to close to the sun, if the wings on our back are borrowed and made of wax.