Hey Now Doxippus,
I was about to post a new thread about my recent voyage and self-dissolving immersion into the 'Salvinorin Seas'. I am going to title it:
The Salvinorin Self... but for now, I'd much rather be a part of a greater collective effort, to share, map and reflect upon the variety of experiences possible under the spell of this powerful psychedelic Teacher. When I do kick off the new thread, it will be specifically about the inter-dynamics of SD and the core spiritual and transcendental aspects of the Salvia experience.
In all honesty, I am just too mellow to take on the project, this morning and will be touching bases here, to share some of the characteristics of my SD trips and see if we share the same elements or if the states of mind it produces are as unique and individual as the myriad souls who embrace it's wild, spiraling ride into infinity.
I have just returned from the most spiritual experience I have ever had within such an interphase with Salvia Divinorum (20x standardized extract). I have discovered something about both, myself and the mystical nature of Salvia Divinorum. I hope to share a glint of what I have integrated.
Just as within lucid dreaming, awareness can be focused and utilized to direct the mind towards an objectivity which defies description, the force which loops endlessly into itself and gurgles into an infinity of possibilities.
There has been much discussion with the Nexus about Salvinorin A and how it affects the human brain. Is it a euphoriant or merely a rushing, bizarre state of dissociation and even dysphoria? Whether or not it is a true hallucinogenic psychedelic chemical, etc...
In fact, recently during his really wonderful lecture,
Advances in understanding how psychedelics work in the brain, Dr. David Nichols dismissed the whole Salvianated state of mind as, "Much ado about Nothing." Now, if he was being deeply philosophical and was drawing reference to how Salvianation can expand one's perception of knowledge to include an awareness of the unknowable immensity and unmanifested nature of the
Indivisible Void... I'd take that as a compliment. Sadly, he is being dismissive and condescending towards any experience which might spin-out, spontaneously from an immersion with Salvinorin A.
So just why is Salvia Divinorum generated perception not "mind manifesting"? Because of the receptors involved with it's activation within the human brain? As SD does not stimulate the Serotonin 2A and/or the Dopamine D2 receptors, his hypothesis is that SD is not a true psychedelic chemical substance, as it activates the cap opioid receptor. Being a scientist, he deals with clinically provable causes & effects. This is another path, altogether, than the one of the psychonaut. Ours is a process of subjective interpretation and a unique personal exploration, by which we come to understand the power of this Sacred Medicine. Pity though, as SD is still legal to use in clinical research, he is wasting an opportunity to use human subjects in his experiments, instead of mice. BTW, this is a link to the thread, here within the Nexus:
Advances in understanding how psychedelics work in the brain - Science - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
I will limit parameters of this trip report to a clearly descriptive format, without the usual metaphysical extrapolations, I am so prone to indulge in. there are areas which can only be interpreted through spiritual symbology, so I may meander over the edge a few times but what can I say? One of my boyhood influences was much more erudite with words that I am.
Popeye the Sailor said:
"I am what I am and that's all that I am... "
In short, I want to list some of the important features to my recent journey into the mysterious realm of SD, to essentially compare notes and embrace a platform of exchange with fellow Nexian family members. So, instead of a linear progression through my internal experience, I am shifting my story to the grouping and defining of these archetypal states of mind. I begin with the usual set of things our mind tells us are important to recall about the immersion. As with the interphase with Mesc, P, mushrooms, LSD, DMT, MDMA and other tryptamines & phenethylamines, Salvinorin A has a cluster of perceivable characteristics, which describe to the subjective witness, a panorama of energy patterns.
#1.
The loop.
This seems to be a predominant element to the experience. This '
loop' can be seen/felt/imagined as a wave of rushing force, which turns over upon itself, endlessly. Folding upon itself, over and over again. It's extremely hard to put into words but I have the direct sensation of revolving within this pattern. Initially, a membrane of some kind kept me from tuning into it's nature but I have grown to the point of merging with it's undulations (like I had a choice?).
#2.
The Sonic Tone.
I have noticed a exponentially louder and louder high ringing tone when I am becoming activated by the effects of Salvinorin A. Much like the Carrier Wave, which s characterizes DMT lift-offs but not as much a vacillation in tonality, rather, a scintillation of dual ringing tones, in synergy. In other words, I hear one tone from within my right ear/hemisphere and another tone in my left ear/hemisphere. Oscillating with one another or something? Or am I hearing them with my hearing receptors, without the aid of the ear drum? The sound has the capacity to direct the awareness of the witness into alternate dimensions of force and motion. When I drew my attention to the point when these tonalities intersected, I became of a higher resonance which rang it's tone in a singularity of vibration. I grasp at words like 'shimmering' and 'scintillating' to imply Ti's sound but it was flavored by an undertone of whirring and droning, as common in psychedelic exploration.
#3.
Electromagnetic, plasticine elasticity field.
That's a mouthful! This is characteristic of Salvia Space, which is reminiscent of our dreams and the adaptability of the dreamscape in which we exist. I would hesitate to label it a field or frequency but nothing else seems appropriate either. It is the backdrop upon which the Salvia Universe is overlaid upon like a Divine pulse. The not so blank canvas, upon which our dreams are born into vision, sensation and reality. This may be conceived of as the very blueprint of the chemical structural exchange, within our minds and the wave patterning of our activated brain receptors. This 'field' appears to be buzzing and glowing with an immeasurable complexity of raw force. I might be reasonable to refer to it as the 'Salvia Matrix'? What it is, I cannot truly say... but it vibrates with an undulation or pulsation, out of which anything might potentially emerge, as an alternate thought-form or reality of it's own creation.
#4.
The Cosmic Disc
When peaking on SD, I always see the image of a glowing disc-like shape. This disc can be seen within everything in the mind's eye and is composed of an infinity of smaller disc-like spheres of pulsating energy. I have had this vision many times but yesterday it was tremendously potent. In afterthought, it resembles an Alka Seltzer tablet bubbling and dissolving in a glass of water. I have looked carefully at this 'hallucination' and found that the closer I look, the more I can seen and endless interior to the bubbles emanating out of the Disc.
As the SD journey is multidimensional and unique in it's visual characteristics, the bubbles are BOTH, emanating and returning into the Disc, simultaneously. Like one of those computer-graphic images of a Black Hole. Except composed of sizzling, shimmering currents of light energy. Does this make any sense? I am always transfixed by this fizzing visual impression. Like looking through carbonated water. I always return with a sense that this image is some kind of symbol of the Indivisibility of God and one view into the fingerprint of the Divine.
#5.
The Vibration & Pulsation of the Rushing Current.
#6.
The Drumming Heart Song.
#7.
The Rushing winds of Spirit breath.
#8.
The Points of Light Eyes.
#9.
The Rainbow Plasma Stuff.
#10.
The Whiteout
