spinal undulation

What may be a Salvia-insight is that, again, I think it would be helpful for me to "loosen" my spine. My habit of "cracking" my neck during mild Salvia sessions concerned me a bit, but I'm fairly sure I haven't been hurting myself. Nevertheless, to move toward a healthier type of exercise, based on my observation of myself making undulating fish-like movements while salvianated in bed, I thought to find some information about undulation of the spine, so I found these:

google for:

undulating spinal

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-PTkpE06A

http://www.scribd.com/doc/76363495/Self-Awakening-Yoga
Well, I haven't read much of that yet...interesting that it mentions Kripalu...


This is exactly the sort of undulation I was talking about:

http://www.yogaia.org/about.htm

"The Key to Yogaia is the undulating spinal wave, in every movement of the practice, whether standing, sitting, or kneeling, bending back and forwards, twisting, reclining, or upside down."

Again, it seems to me to be a salvia-insight that this sort of undulation may help me loosen my spine, which may be, perhaps, to open up the energy centers/chakras of the body.

Dale Pendell: Pharmako/Poeia

A very interesting chapter on Salvia is reproduced on this page:
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172878

Perhaps connected to some degree to a statement on that page, here's my rather poor/crude comparison of three drugs:

Alcohol:

Inhibits pain, enhances emotion (disinhibits), can amplify both good and bad emotions. Also boosts the ego. This can be dangerous...

Cannabis:

Inhibits pain and anxiety at all levels, but does not boost ego.

Salvia:

Inhibits the irrational dramas and baggage that one carries with them throughout much of their incarnation. One is left as a pure awareness, without any verbal thought, forgetting who or what they were as that personality, and perhaps remembering (or at least having a deja-vu feeling of) who they were before this incarnation.

Actually, I still have some trouble with calling Salvia a "drug." Sure, I suppose it is, technically, but it feels *so* different from anything I've called a drug before that. It's more like a key to unlock secrets of the universe that we have hidden from ourselves (as part of our agreement to play this "game" of life here, this game of experience, and to learn the lessons it has for us.)

spinal energy travels in a circle during sex?

This is an apparent insight from this morning's Salvia-extract experience. Again I had a sub-hallucinogenic dose, and napped soon afterwards. I again did some spine-cracking movements (neck and upper-back), apparently hoping to loosen the spine further and grind some of the calcification off of the bones (I sometimes do this for several minutes, though it wasn't quite that long this time.) Anyway, while doing this, I was thinking about how it seems like energy moves up and down through the spine, and it seems like the interface between multidimensional-consciousness and this body is through the spine. And it seems as if sex moves energy up and down the spine, so it occurred to me that if a couple is having sex, that sex-energy can move in a circle, up one person's spine and down the other.

I don't know if this is true, but found this page from a search for "sex energy circle sacred":

http://wildtantra.com/2011/10/wildtantra-circles-of-light/

..with a quote from Osho that agrees with my apparent insight:

“Tantra gives you a dimension of a higher relaxation which is positive. Both partners melting with each other give vital energy to each other. They become a circle,
and their energy begins to move in a circle.
They are giving life to each other…”
Osho

disassociating from sleepiness?

A novel use for Salvia?

When the pull of sleepiness is coming on, trying to get me to fall asleep at work, just one or two leaves, chewed, seems to pull me out of it. It's a strange new use I've found for it. I'd like to hear if anyone else has tried that, and if they have an explanation for why/how that can work. It's fairly clearly not a stimulant, so how does kappa-opioid stimulation cause cancel out the effect of sleepiness?

http://journals.lww.com/anesthesiology/Abstract/1995/01000/Effects_of_Opioid_Microinjections_in_the_Nucleus.19.aspx
" the kappa agonist caused no changes in sleep‐wakefulness states."

http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/101/4/542.full
"sleep-producing effects through agonism at the kappa-opioid"

Strange... actually, more intense amounts (smoked extract) often helps me to relax my body and nap afterwards (fall asleep while/after coming up). So it's dual effect is hard to explain.

I also have this fear/hypothesis that daily use might degrade sleep quality, but it seems unsupported by the evidence. I'm functioning regularly on 5 to 6 hours a sleep, which for me seems amazing that I don't "crash" even more than I do every day.