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If you read about salvia here, you’ll see that many of us encourage a gradual approach with it: Start with low doses, get comfortable with the effects, and then gradually proceed to higher doses. If you take this approach, you are likely to develop a positive relationship with salvia.

“Other people” often take massive doses, have intense and horrific experiences, and then call salvia names.

With salvia even more so than with DMT, it’s important to close your eyes: The experience isn’t about seeing visual distortions in your surroundings, but rather about entering into another realm of experience. Entering that realm is difficult with eyes open.