My advice? DON'T do inhalants. My very next 'drug' experience was a hit of Owsley "Orange Sunshine" LSD... but that's a story for another time.

Is particularly effective with Salvia -- make sure you have a sitter nearby to toss everything in a sink after you're done hitting on it!

anyway, i lit into the salvia, and the first thing i noticed was the saliva! i felt an overwhelming urge to spit, like my mouth was all tingly everywhere, like needles were growing out of it. i sat on a bench by the delaware river and the last thing i remember before my melt was the freeze frame. like a digital still, i saw the gravel covered shore, the water, the clouds, the grass around me in my field of vision. the trees were formost, though. one of my favorite childhood books was "the spooky old tree" with the berenstein bears...and i was about to meet it.

all of a sudden, i heard the laughter of disney characters who seemed a little too on edge for my taste. i noticed that normal everyday characteristics i'd bet my life on moments before this experience had now become something more than i could process at the time. the trees sprouted heads, something peeked from behind the clouds and the landmass on the other side of the river began to reach outward. like if we could see the rays of the sun, if only the sun was brown and green. the faces grew more definition, and they laughed at me, mocking me. they told me i couldn't hide from myself, because we are always around you. i've since deciphered that, convincing myself that each personality is an instance of our human life, in effect we share these shells with other spirits throughout our waking life. anyway, when i came back, i shuddered, dropped the bowl, picked it back up, and stumbled off muttering "leave me alone" and other unintelligible things. people looked at me funny, probably thought i'd smoked bad weed or something. if anything, it was the best "weed" of my life because it wasn't a weed at all. it was diviner's sage, the sacred salvia divinorum. it may sound corny, but it'll help you answer questions you never knew existed and it'll tear you apart. most important though, it will change your life, and if your life didn't need changing, you wouldn't be here.

so how was it different from ayahuasca? well, they're like 2 sides of the same coin. at low doses salvia extract can be incredibly potent and scary. with more experience you'll find it cross-spiritual communication wonderful. however, ayahuasca gets scarier the more you ingest, and it doesn't wear off as quickly as salvia. it's definitely something to fight through at higher doses, but a low dose is heavenly. from these two entheogenic substances, i learned that the ancients understood that there are multiple ways into heaven and hell, even if there's just one of each, and the door you choose plays heavily into determining your fate.