Monday, February 6, 2012

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.)

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