My First Salvia Trip

What is Salvia?

Salvia is a plant found in Mexico. In Mexico the Mazatect has a tradition to use Salvia for spiritual healing. Salvia typically is smoked, or chewed. Basically Salvia experience is almost like an out of body one. Exactly what happens depend of the individual. The important thing is through Salvia exprience one can possibly gain some insights and learn something about themselves and life in general. If smoked, the user may go into an altered state within a few seconds. The whole experience may last about 5 minutes, and the user will awake, and comopletely back to normal within 30 minutes.

Salvia is a natural plant, and is not addictive. It is also not particularly harmful to the body, so it is not a drug. Salvia is legal in most countries. In fact, Salvia may even be able to help getting rid of drug addiction, cure depression, etc. Perhaps because not all Salvia trips a pleasant. When one awakens from the trip they might realize that life is wonderful and begin to cherish it more. Therefore, Salvia is not for fun. Unfortunately, these days we can find many Youtube videos of young people having Salvia trips like it is entertainment. In this way, they would not learn anything from their trips. Many people get scared if their trip is unpleasant, but if they look at it in a different angle, they should be able to learn something about being a better person.

My First Experience

I got my salvia from an Herbal store on Vancouver's Hastings Street. I got about 1 gram of 10x Salvia extracts for about 20 CAD. After I got home I smoked about a fingertip amount, closed my eyes and laid back on the couch. Then, without even noticing, my consciousness was as if leaving this dimension. I remember the first sight I saw, which is I have returned to when I was little. I subconsciously understood that this was my home we I was a little kid. I was sitting on the floor, staring at a red toy car. I was thinking "this is my toy from when I was little". Other than that I wasn't thinking about anything else.

Suddenly, the scenery changed. I suddenly seemed to have lost my body. I felt that I was the Universe and I was also time. All I could see visually was like a spinning colorful spiral. This spiral represented everything that has every existed. Every one spin of the spiral represents one million years have passed. In the beginning, I didn't think much of it, just spinning along with it, and everything seemed normal. But after a long time I was still spinning, and started to feel uneasy. Suddenly I wanted to get out of the cycle instead of spinning forever and ever and ever... So I struggled and turned and as soon as I felt that I could pull out and spin away, I have spun into another perpetuating spinning cycle. I repeatedly tried to escape, but just couldn't.

After a long time, I decided a give up and accepted that since I was the Universe and Time, maybe it was my responsibility to spin forever. Once I began to accept this responsibility, suddenly I escaped, and came back to conscious. Now I realized that I was on the floor. At this time I still wasn't totally clear minded, but I was able to get myself back onto the couch. It felt like I was on the edge between the two dimensions. While sitting on the couch, I felt that my arms and legs are still trying to melt away, but I didn't want to go back so tried to keep my body from disappearing using my mind. I decided to stand up, but when I stand up I felt like the world has paused, like pressing pause on a VCR. During this time I was actually a little scared, because I really didn't want to go back spinning forever. After about 30 minutes, this kind of feeling went away.

Reflections

After this trip, my first feeling was "I return finally". It felt like it was forever even though it was maybe only about 30 minutes. It literally felt like I had experienced the lifetime 10 universes. I realized, what we experience in this dimension occupy only an unimaginably short amount of time. I suddenly felt that maybe I wasn't nice enough to my family members. Maybe because I was always busy and hardly visit them, there was a bit of sadness in my heart. I felt that life is so short yet I was unwilling to spend time with them more often, so I made up my mind I decided to care for them more.

At the same time, I had this feeling of "how dare you". I suddenly felt that just to be present in this dimension, having a body, is a blessing. How dare I wonder about the secrets of life? Being able to live in this dimension, with a slow flowing time, I should be happy and cherish every moment. How dare I feel unsatisfied about many things in life? Suddenly I had a desire to appreciate everything in life, and didn't want to try Salvia again.

After about a week, my memory of the trip is not as deep, and I wanted to try again. Unfortunately the lesson I learned also didn't feel as strong. If I don't remind myself, I probably would forget the promises I made to myself, like caring more for others. Until now, I still haven't dared to try again though.