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Salvia divinorum

June 20, 2017 By John Reed Leave a Comment

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What is Salvia divinorum?

Salvia divinorum is best known for its Youtube salvia trip videos and as a hallucinogen. Awareness of salvia has risen with the Internet, but it was first introduced to mainstream culture in the mid-1900’s. While the small leafy herb is now finding well-deserved popularity in Western minds, it has long been a part of indigenous Central American culture. Ethnobotanists and anthropologists discovered the plant in the Sierra Mazateca mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, in the course of research into psilocybin mushrooms. After decades of work with the Mazatec people, the gift of a live Salvia divinorum plant made it’s way back to the United States, and from there, the plant has spread across the globe.

History

The history of Salvia divinorum is long, but the most popular methods of use are relatively modern. Traditionally, salvia has been consumed orally, either through chewing or infusions. Users began smoking Salvia in the late 20th century, which lead to today’s form of consumption: salvia extracts. Oral use of salvia has the drawbacks of relying on fresh leaves and providing a milder experience. Smoking is advantageous because the effects of salvia are stronger and dried plant material can be used. The problem with smoking salvia leaves is that the smoke is very harsh and the amount of active ingredients in the dried leaves varies drastically. Salvia extracts solve these problems by taking the active ingredient, Salvinorin A, from salvia leaves and producing a product with a standardised potency and cleaner smoke. Experienced and novice salvia users alike prefer smoking extract, because once they learn the correct dosage for their needs, they can rely on the extract to deliver the experience they’re after.

Salvia divinorum’s interaction with the brain’s neurotransmitters is unlike the physiological effects of any other hallucinogen, creating a psychedelic experience that is highly unique. The effects of smoking salvia extract are generally classified on a scale from subtle to visionary to amnesic. Light use creates subtle effects such as mood enhancement, clarified perception, relaxation and increased sensuality. Users progressing beyond this point experience a deeper distortion of the senses, leading to auditory and visual hallucination, strange bodily sensations and uncontrollable laughter. Before reaching the most intense effects, salvia users experience contact with foreign beings, identification with external objects and deep spiritual insight. This is the last stage of the salvia experience scale that anyone can report on, because effects beyond this point of intensity lead to total amnesia regarding the trip.

The acute effects of Salvia divinorum rarely last longer than ten minutes, but the residual effects of calmness and heightened sense can last for hours, and the insight and change in perspective brought about during the trip can last for a lifetime. The salvia trip is a healing experience, and the salvia herb is a safe, natural teacher.

More information: SalviaExtract: Encyclopaedia on Salvia History

Botanical

Salvia divinorum is part of the sage family of plants. On record their are roughly 900 different Salvia species, including many decorative garden sages and Salvia officinalis, which is used for cooking. Salvia is a genus in the mint family (Labiatae) Salvia divinorum is literally the sage (Salvia) of the diviners (divinorum). The plant has a characteristic weak ‘mousy-but-minty’ aroma. It is a native of a small area in Oaxaca, Mexico, growing in mountainous lands where the Mazatec Indian people dwell.

More information: SalviaExtract: Encyclopaedia on Salvia Botanical

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Chemistry

Salvinorin A (chemical formula C23H28O8) and salvinorin B are naturally occurring molecules which are different than any other pychoactive compound found in nature, including those engineered in labs such as LSD. Of these only salvinorin A is found psychoactive. It works on the kappa-opioid receptor system. Salvinorin A is present in the dried plant at about 0.18%. Active doses start as low as 100-250 micrograms sublingual; 200-500 micrograms vaporized and inhaled. This translates to 10 times the potency of psilocybin from mushrooms used in similar ways by other Mexican Indians, and more than 1000 times the potency of mescaline, from the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) used as a visionary drug by the Huichol, Tarahumara and other native peoples of northern Mexico.

More information: SalviaExtract: Encyclopaedia on Salvia chemistry

Effects

POSITIVE

short duration (when smoked)
radical perspective shifting
increase in sensual and aesthetic appreciation
creative dreamlike experience
insight into personal issues
sense of peaceful appreciation for life in the afterglow, sometimes lasting days or weeks

NEUTRAL

powerful closed- and open-eye visuals
general change in consciousness (as with most psychoactives)
altered perceptions
change in emotion, anywhere from very happy, to sad, to angry
change in body temperature, flushing
sensation of physical push, pressure, or wind
sensation of entering or perceiving other dimensions, alternate realities
feeling of ‘presence’ or entity contact
dissociation at high doses, uncontrolled walking or standing
loss of awareness of surroundings

NEGATIVE

overly-intense experiences
fear, terror and panic
increased perspiration
possible difficulty integrating experiences
higher doses can cause inability to control muscles and maintain balance: falls are reported.
mild to moderate headache, usually starting after effects wear off

Daniel Siebert made a S-A-L-V-I-A Experiential Rating Scale that shows the variety of effects that can appear when using salvia.

Level – 1 “S” stands for SUBTLE effects. A feeling that “something” is happening, although it is difficulty to say just what. Relaxation and increased sensual appreciation may be noted. This mild level is useful for meditation and may facilitate sexual pleasure.

Level – 2 “A” stands for ALTERED perception. Colors and textures are more pronounced. Appreciation of music may be enhanced. Space may appear of greater or lesser depth than is usual. But visions do not occur at this level. Thinking becomes less logical, and more playful; short-term memory difficulties may be noted.

Level – 3 “L” stands for LIGHT visionary state. Closed-eye visuals (clear imagery with eyes closed: fractal patterns, vine-like and geometric patterns, visions of objects and designs). The imagery is often two dimensional. If open-eyed visual effects occur, these are usually vague and fleeting. At this level, phenomena similar to the hypnagogic phenomena that some people experience at sleep onset occur. At this level, visions are experienced as “eye candy” but are not confused with reality.

Level – 4 “V” stands for VIVID visionary state. Complex three-dimensional realistic appearing scenes occur. Sometimes voices may be heard. With eyes open, contact with consensual reality will not be entirely lost, but when you close your eyes you may forget about consensus reality and enter completely into a dreamlike scene. Shamanistic journeying to other lands–foreign or imaginary; encounters with beings (entities, spirits) or travels to other ages may occur. You may even live the life of another person. At this level you have entered the shaman’s world. Or if you prefer: you are in “dream time.” With eyes closed, you experience fantasies (dream like happenings with a story line to them). So long as your eyes are closed you may believe they are really occurring. This differs from the “eye candy” closed-eye imagery, of level 3.

Level – 5 “I” stands for IMMATERIAL existence. At this level one may no longer be aware of having a body. Consciousness remains and some thought processes are still lucid, but one becomes completely involved in inner experience and looses all contact with consensual reality. Individuality may be lost; one experiences merging with God/dess, mind, universal consciousness, or bizarre fusions with other objects–real or imagined (e.g. experiences such as merging with a wall or piece of furniture). At this level it is impossible to function in consensual reality, but unfortunately some people do not remain still but move around in this befuddled state. For this reason a sitter is essential to ensure the safety of someone voyaging to these deep levels. To the person experiencing this the phenomenon may be terrifying or exceedingly pleasant; but to an outside observer the individual may appear confused or disoriented.

Level 6 – “A” stands for AMNESIC effects. At this stage, either consciousness is lost, or at least one is unable to later recall what one had experienced. The individual may fall, or remain immobile or thrash around; somnambulistic behavior may occur. Injuries can be sustained without pain being felt; on awakening, the individual will have no recollection of what he/she did, experienced, or said in level 6. People cannot recall what they experience in this very deep trance state. This is not a desirable level, because nothing can latter be recalled of the experience.

More information: SalviaExtract: Encyclopaedia on the Effects of Salvia

Forms of Salvia divinorum

Salvia Extracts for sale are available for purchase in our online store or easily accessible at local head shops in certain countries and US states (see: salvia legal map). They are sold in varying forms of 10X, 20X, 40x, 60x, etc. The “X” symbolizes that the extract being consumed is X times stronger than regular leaves (5X is 5 times as strong as regular leaf). The stronger the extract, the stronger the experience; use at your own risk.

Salvia Extract are made using dried leaf, the extraction process is complex and lengthy and improper usage of chemicals can result in bodily harm. It’s commonly made using 99% pure pro-pantone Acetone or 99% purity: Isopropanol, Rubbing Alcohol, and Isopropyl Alcohol with a combination of Naphtha.

Fresh leaf

Fresh leaf is primarily used for making a small bundle of leaves that is then held under the tongue for sublingual absorption. Fresh leaf is preferred method for sublingual absorption because it doesn’t break up in your mouth and is easier to chew.

Light – 10 g fresh / 2 g dried
Common – 30 g fresh / 6 g dried
Strong – 50 g fresh / 10 g dried

Dried leaf

Dried leaf are prepared by leaving fresh leaves out in the sun. Other faster methods to dry leaf require you to bake it in an oven at 150 degrees Fahrenheit until the leaf becomes crispy. Dried salvia leaf is used for smoking. To use dried leaf for sublingual absorption, soak them in water for ten (10) minutes. Beware that Soaking dried leaf in water can lose some of its potency. If you plan on making Salvia Extract its best to us dried leaf.

Light : 0.25g
Common : 0.5g
Strong : 0.75 – 1.00g

Tincture

Salvia Tinctures are made by dissolving extract into pure Salvinorin A or a semi-pure form of it into ethyl alcohol. It is meant to be used sublingually by holding a certain amount under the tongue for a period of time. Using Tincture usually will increase the duration of the Salvia trip but the effects will be weaker. Beware that holding strong tincture under the tongue for long periods of time can eventually cause blistering. It is sometimes best to dilute the pure tincture with water (although potency may be decreased).

Tea

To make a tea first crush 1/8 oz of dried leaves, bring water to a boiling temperature, drop the leaf into water for around 5 minutes. Afterwards, let it simmer for around 15 minutes. Salvinorin A is not orally activated, so the tea has to be kept in the mouth for around 15-20 seconds each sip. This tea, if properly brewed and consumed, can produce a state of trance when closing the eyes and a whole night of vivid and intense dreams plus some occasional closed eye visuals.

Tolerance and addiction potential

The use of Salvinorin A is not habit-forming drug and generally the need to want to use more will decrease after repeated use. Immediate usage within 30-120 minutes will decrease the effects of salvia the cause is unknown, but probably linked to how your body deals with the after-effects of Salvinorin A.

Long term tolerance to the effects of Salvinorin A does not occur. In fact, users report that this compound has a reverse tolerance and actually becomes stronger over time and with repeated usage. Salvinorin A is not affected by built up tolerance for other hallucinogens. Salvinorin A is likely to overpower other hallucinogens effects when used in combination.

Legal issues

Australia : Possession and sale is illegal.
Belgium : Possession and sale is illegal.
Canada: Possession and sale is illegal.
Croatia : Possession and sale is illegal.
Czech Republic : Possession and sale is illegal.
Denmark : Salvinorin A is a Class B drug.
Germany : Possession and sale is illegal.
Germany: Possession and sale is illegal.
Hong Kond: Possession and sale is illegal.
Italy : Possession and sale is illegal.
Japan: Possession and sale is illegal.
Latvia : Possession and sale is illegal.
Lithuania : Possession and sale is illegal.
Poland : Possession and sale is illegal.
Portugal: Possession and sale is illegal.
Republic of Ireland: Possession and sale is illegal.
Romania : Possession and sale is illegal.
Spain : Possession and sale is illegal.
Sweden : Possession and sale is illegal.
Switzerland: Possession and sale is illegal.
South Korea: Possession and sale is illegal.
UK : Possession and sale is legal
USA: (States where its Illegal)
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Guam
Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota
Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming

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Cannabis and Salvia Divinorum

November 21, 2015 By John Reed Leave a Comment

My Spiritual Experiences with Psychedelics

Cannabis and Salvia Divinorum

Marijuana triggered my first spiritual experience and was largely responsible for my spiritual awakening. Salvia Divinorum demonstrated that Heaven truly exists. Naturally, I find it difficult to condemn the exploration of such drugs.

We’ve come quite a long way in accepting Cannabis. Currently, 18 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, Washington and Colorado have legalized possession, and almost 30% of the nation has decriminalized possession it in some form or another. More and more studies are demonstrating that Cannabis may offer an incredible array of medical uses, and that Hemp is a much neglected natural material.

While the health benefits of cannabis have been highly touted, little has been written of the spiritual benefits, as if it were still an inconvenient secret. The stigma is still in place, fostered by decades of recreational abuse. Western culture is rather schizophrenic about drugs. We rush to the doctor for a pill to cure our ills, yet discount the possibility of spiritual growth through psychedelics. We treat them irresponsibly, as recreation.

For example, MDMA, or Ecstasy, was initially regarded by therapists as a breakthrough tool for treating emotional and physical trauma, yet once it hit the street as a party drug, the potential for clinical use was quickly discarded, only now making an unconventional comeback.

Cannabis may yet turn out to be nature’s miracle drug; that doesn’t mean everyone should run out and smoke it. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that different people will experience different effects. Just because I experienced a spiritual awakening doesn’t mean someone else necessarily will. My situation may have been unique, and when my ride had run its course, I quit. It was no longer pleasurable. It was never meant to be a lifestyle for me, just a spiritual journey, the impetus for awakening.

Like many people, I experimented in college, many years ago. It was the 1980’s, and Nancy Reagan was promoting her “Just Say No” campaign. My generation was already laughing at this simplistic slogan. I was rather innocent at the time. I was an honor roll student – I didn’t drink, I didn’t do drugs, and I had never had sex. All that changed when I went away to college.

When I tell people about my early experiences smoking marijuana, they usually look at me funny like they don’t quite believe me, like the stuff I was smoking must have been laced with LSD. And of course, I assure them that it wasn’t. I never once hallucinated, or saw colorful visions, or thought my hands were melting. LSD would have been way too much for me to handle.

Most users treated marijuana as light entertainment, a pleasurable way to spend a lazy afternoon. When we smoked, my friends would giggle, but I didn’t get the joke. My amusement was always laced with the profound.

The first several times I smoked, I experienced Gaia on a very intimate level. I could sense energy fields all around me, especially from trees and plants. I could sense their vibration. Everything seemed more three-dimensional, more radiant and alive. I felt more alive, as if I had awoken from a long sleep. Everyday perception felt foggy, dull, and deficient in comparison.

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There were many beautiful sunny days when I would lay on the grass and stare up at the clouds, when I felt something akin to Unity consciousness, completely connected to the Universe around me, experiencing endless peace and an ever-present divine love. If marijuana had a religion, it might be a form of Pantheism, a belief that God is found in nature, that we reside within the consciousness of the Divine. For that reason the energy feels feminine.

Image at top: Not unlike waking up on the planet Pandora, from the film Avatar.

There were days when I felt the presence of God in everything I saw and touched. I was literally walking with God on my shoulder, and this deity taught me many things – that everything was symbolic, holding a layered meaning: that books, chairs, tables, trees, and little suburban houses all represented some larger concept that overlapped our pedestrian reality. It was like living inside a computer program and learning a new language, a symbolic language of the subconscious mind. Synchronicity became an everyday experience.

When I was experiencing all of this, I didn’t know anything about New Age spirituality, Synchronicity, energy fields, or Gnosticism. I was raised with a traditional Christian upbringing. I didn’t have words for the things that I was experiencing, except maybe Science Fiction concepts. It was an album by the band, The Police, “Synchronicity,” that introduced me to this term. And yet one overriding metaphor seemed to apply to my experimentation – the Garden of Eden story, the temptation of forbidden fruit, and the gift of forbidden knowledge. This is a major archetype of the psychedelic experience.

Cannabis has a long history of ritual use. According to Wikipedia, its consumption dates back to 2,000 BCE, to India, China, and ancient Greece. It was one of “five sacred plants” mentioned in the Atharva Veda.

My own spiritual lovefest with weed didn’t last very long – only a couple of months, off and on. It’d be nice to pick up where I left off, to experience this vivid connection once again, but for the most part I’m unable to. Brain chemistry adapts, something changes, the experience is never as good as the first few times… who knows. What I do know is that using any psychedelic is merely the first step of a traditional initiation process into spiritual mysteries. You can not live in that first stage of the quest forever. You must move on.

For me, the door was permanently closed. I was kicked out of Eden. And then things turned dark, very dark.

There was a Shadowside to my marijuana experience. Paranoia can, of course, be a side effect of smoking dope – one of the reasons they call it dope aside from the clumsiness, the absentmindedness, and perpetual laughter. And my paranoia was epic.

Looking back, I was probably in touch with something dark, a negative spiritual entity. I received this intense concept of a vast artificial intelligence that was trying to control the universe, that had imprisoned us on Earth. Long before the film The Matrix arrived in theaters, I was experiencing it as a literal spiritual reality. The Gnostics would have labeled this the Demiurge, the false god of the material world, of which the Archons are its minions. I looked at nature, and I no longer felt connected and loved. I saw darkness behind every brutal act of natural survival, a carnivorous circle of life. Everything became a crucifixion. And this entity was not unlike a deadly spider, tangling us in its web of lies.

There was a certain Eric Clapton song on the radio now and then, called “Cocaine.” (I had no desire to try cocaine.) Yet one verse of the song stuck in my head. It was significant to me.

“She don’t lie, She don’t lie, She don’t lie… cocaine.”

We used to refer to alcohol as “Spirits,” probably for a good reason. People used to believe that you were susceptible to specific spirits when you imbibed. Native tribes in Central America or the Amazon, who ingest peyote or some other form of psychedelic, are actively trying to connect with the spirit world, with entities attached to the drug.

There may in fact be a spirit of marijuana. As spirits go, she is relatively harmless, she amplifies what you bring to her. If you bring her light, she will shine a divine light. If you bring her your darkness, she will magnify that darkness. Yet she can be a trickster. She will allow you to completely deceive yourself, making your illusion a grand one. It’s a theory anyway. I do believe we open ourselves up to the spiritual world when we ingest certain drugs which is why I often frown upon casual use. I don’t think of it as entertainment. My experiences tells me Cannabis is a spiritual tool, one that should be respected and used responsibly. I wish that I had learned such respect and discipline during my brief honeymoon with marijuana.

My experiences were the source material for my fantasy novel, Season of the Serpent. While fictional, the story is somewhat autobiographical, how I found myself surrounded by Synchronicity, propelled into a larger reality, one that I wasn’t quite ready for. But then we’re never quite ready for transformation, until we pass through it.

I was constantly surprising myself as I wrote it, as if I were channeling something bigger than my own story. Not Truth with a capital “T”, but rather metaphorical truth. You may find you reach a place where the idea of truth and deception become indistinguishable, where it’s all about listening to the wisdom of your heart, and not your head.

The only other psychedelic I have ever experimented with was Salvia divinorum, which you can still buy legally in some states, which will produce a very short hallucinatory experience.

This is definitely not a recreational drug. People who ingest this drug report all sorts of strange experiences, from an induced out of body experience, to communicating with bizarre, multi-dimensional alien entities. The experience typically lasts a few seconds to a minute, however the perception of time is quite a bit longer.

As most people will report, this is not a pleasant experience, so I never attempted a second trip. I’m not sure if I ingested enough to induce a full out of body experience, but I certainly felt the unforgettable discomfort of my soul trying to break free. The sensation itself was strangely horrific. I felt as if I were tangled up in a web of dark cables, like black rubber bands, which were trying to prevent my consciousness from escaping my body. It was quite unpleasant. Yet, I was standing on the threshold, and I sensed so much that was just beyond the veil.

This was the really interesting part – I sensed that there really was a Paradise hidden on the other side, just out of sight. I could feel the periphery of it, as if it were just beyond my grasp. Heaven was real, and it was absolutely amazing. Just being there would instantly cure any emotional injury or sorrow. The people, and there was a multitude of people like a huge thriving city, were miraculously happy. That is what I sensed, as if I were standing just outside of a fabulous nightclub where a bouncer was refusing to let me inside the VIP door.

I actually sensed the presence of some type of guardian, an invisible authoritative figure who was very gentle, yet very strict, who deliberately kept me from seeing the other side, telling me: It wasn’t meant to be. It wasn’t my time.

I wasn’t angry about it. For some reason, I just understood.

And that’s what I remember after quickly returning to normal reality. Not all mysteries are meant to be solved in this lifetime. Some are deliberately hidden from us, for our own growth.

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Keeping Up With Hallucinogen’s – Salvia Social Media Studies

July 27, 2014 By John Reed 1 Comment

Keeping Up With Hallucinogen’s – Salvia

Salvia has been around for centuries, but it has been growing in popularity and is just now on the radar as far as Dr.’s are concerned. College studies are finding more and more people share they have experimented with Salvia. Unfortunately many people are still uneducated, even professionals in the drug and alcohol prevention field. Other than existing users, most people are unaware of the effects of this hallucinogen. Even Dr. Jim Lange from San Diego State University has openly admitted in a recent BBC interview “more and more students listing a drug Salvia divinorum as one of their other drugs”.

Origins

Salvia is closely related to common garden plants. The family of mint and sage are similar in origins and share common traits. Unlike mint and sage, Salvia has a very potent hallucinogen within it. This translates to experiencing visions that are different from reality.

For many years the hallucinogenic properties of this plant were harvested by the Oaxaca people in ritual fashion. The shamans of tribes would use it orally or on less common occasion they would smoke the plant to preform cultural customs. They considered the visions experienced an important part of their culture, nothing like a street drug would be viewed today.

In recent years Salvia use has spread to the USA as well as the UK. No longer strictly for ritual use or considered just a regional custom.

Coming from traditional spiritual origins and being so comparable to common garden variety plants, Salvia was not considered illegal in most places. The legality of a drug determines if it is studied like any other common street drug. Being that Salvia is still legal in most places, the popularity grew for some time without concern or extensive studies.

YouTube

As medical professionals have begun to understand that Salvia is commonly used now as a hallucinogen, they turn to the internet for answers. YouTube has provided ample visual documentation of people experiencing Salvia’s effects and after effects.

There are countless videos of people using Salvia online. There are both short and lengthy videos which detail how a person is physically experiencing their hallucinogen trip. These visual trip reports are the best evidence currently available of the legal Salvia’s true potential.

The nature of a legal drug like Salvia, is that professionals don’t consider it a threat and the effects are not studied. Because of common practice, not much literature is available from the professional medical journal world. From Dr Jim Lange perspective “there were no substantial studies documenting the effects of salvia”.

If there are no books written for the doctors and general public to educate themselves with, there are at least YouTube videos.

Effects

From the countless videos of Salvia use that are available to consider, one common thread can be noted. The hallucinogenic effect and visual experience from the trip are short lasting. Salvia is not something that people are capable of using in public as easily as alcohol so the effects cannot be studied the same way.

Truly the best database for understanding the effects is currently Youtube. Watching as many as possible would serve for a well balanced understanding of the range of experiences. To get a good grasp Dr. Jim Lange “randomly sampled YouTube videos and had researchers watch lots and lots of videos”.

Researchers looking at these YouTube videos analyze the Salvia trips with a scientific method. Looking at different side effects of the trips can tell what effects are more consistent and what is less common to expect.

Studies

The research that Dr. Jim Lange completed considered dose effects, response time to inhalation, and length of trip. Seven minutes was considered a longer lasting trip, this YouTube video shows a couple tripping together for just under 7 minutes.. The conclusive study and evidence of salvia trip effects on YouTube were published.

A lab study at Yale University followed the video study of Dr. Jim Lange. This study has plans to fill in the blanks of brain testing and impairments beyond short-term trip effects.

For the world of medical professionals, access to massive video archives has changed the future of drug studies. The videos available for salvia trips help people understand what real life use looks and feels like. Each experience outside of a lab that is documented is helping the greater social understanding of what to expect from an experience.

Reference Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16273028

Top 10 Psychedelic Youtube Compilation – Salvia Music

July 24, 2014 By John Reed Leave a Comment

Top 10 Psychedelic Youtube Compilation – Salvia Music

We are featuring our top 10 picks of our favourite Youtube music videos. These Salvia Music videos fit with the genre of Psychedelic music.

Our Top 10 Salvia Music list is meant as an auditory guide. You can watch these Salvia Music videos for the visuals, although it will not necessarily enhance your Salvia experience. We believe that Salvia in itself provides the necessary juice required to create its own interesting visual stimuli. Check out a few of the reported Salvia Effects that you can expect to experience.

When doing Salvia we recommend you take the time to detach yourself from your computer. Close your eyes let the music guide you and let your subconscious be the instrument of the required visual stimuli. Prior to commencing a Salvia trip check our Smoking Salvia Guide. You may also want to read up on a few of Salvia Trip reports prior to commencing. Once you are ready to buy Salvia, let this guide be an inspiration to your Salvia Trip.

How We Picked Out Our List

Our rankings for our top 10 list of Salvia music videos are based the following factor:

Music tempo – We ranked videos based on the subtly of the music. How soft and soothing the music was.
Lyrics – How appropriate lyrics were to a proper Psychedelic Salvia experience

We associated a ranking that was based on the above mentioned categories with a ranking that ranges on a scale of 1 to 5. A Salvia experience is nothing like your average psychedelic experience negative or the wrong kind of words will just tend to freak you out.

1. The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows (Mono)

Music Tempo – 4/5
Lyrics – 4.8/5

2. The American Metaphysical Circus – The United States of America

Music Tempo – 3.8/5
Lyrics – 4.5/5

3. Grace – Country Joe & The Fish

Music Tempo – 3.0/5
Lyrics – 5/5

4. Interstellar Overdrive – Pink Floyd

Music Tempo – 3.2/5
Lyrics – 5/5

5. Are You Experienced – Jimi Hendrix Experience

Music Tempo – 3.3/5
Lyrics – 4.1/5

6. At The Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft

Music Tempo – 3.3/5
Lyrics – 4/5

7. Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

Music Tempo – 3/5
Lyrics – 4.2/5

8. Dark Star – Grateful Dead

Music Tempo – 4/5
Lyrics – 2/5

9. Bass Strings – Country Joe & The Fish

Music Tempo – 3/5
Lyrics – 3/5

10. Spare Chaynge – Jefferson Airplane

Music Tempo – 4/5
Lyrics – 2.9/5

Disclaimer 1: Don’t forget to skip the commercials before using it to help your experience. Remember Salvia lasts for a maximum of maybe 10 minutes.

Disclaimer: None of our staff tried to watch these Salvia Music videos while on Salvia. Therefore we expect the user experience to vary. A few factors you should keep in mind prior to attempting Salvia:

Avoid Salvia if you are feeling depressed
Avoid Salvia if you are on medication
Do not consume legal or illegal substances while trying Salvia
Do not consume Salvia in a Party setting

Philosophy vs Party – Salvia fights modern day use

July 9, 2014 By John Reed 1 Comment

Philosophy vs Party – Salvia fights modern day use

Originally the plant Salvia divinorum was cultivated by mountain people of the Mazatec region. It was used through the past in different ways but often for the same reason. Most often, it was consumed orally, with some evidence showing history of smoking as well. For the effects it was used, a sacred ritual of introspection that these mountain people valued and had pride in. When salvia is taken orally, the effects are different than modern day methods of smoking.

The cultural Mazatec use of salvia was spiritual in nature. The partying of modern times is for escape most often, not to look into one’s soul or peer into the nature of the universe. Salvia was for a long time, used as a means of deepening a persons relationship with themselves and their spirit. Daniel Siebert is quoted as saying people often have “profound insights during salvia experiences”. Salvia is said to induce some vision interference and cause a dream like feeling for the person tripping. After effects can vary just as much as individual trip experiences.

Quality of experience can vary based on method of salvia use. Tinctures, extracts, oral consumption, smoking, the list of ways to consume salvia goes on. Most salvia that is grown in the world today is genetically identical thanks to clipping propagation. The plant is typically grown and exported from Mexico. Trip effects are going to depend on the strength and quality and individual persons mental status. Salvia extracts and tinctures can be made at different strengths at home from dried salvia leaves or bought online.

Thanks to the internet and social media, it is easy enough to find ways and means to remove yourself from reality. For those who may be inexperienced, youtube offers some instructional videos for countless things. There are many herbal supplements used to escape reality, but a quote from the 2009 joergo.de interview with Daniel Siebert in reference to Salvia says, “Salvia is not an escapist drug. Quite the contrary it is a philosopher’s tool”.

Often a person will try tripping on Salvia around other people. There are countless videos (again) of this online for the curious mind to pour over or have a laugh. Rarely is it discussed or filmed that Salvia is best used alone. This is the easiest way to unlock the introspective part of the plant. Daniel Seibert is again quoted on this topic “Salvia provides access to parts of the psyche that are normally out of reach. For this reason, people often learn a lot about themselves during salvia trips.” There is no right or wrong way to use it of course. A person just may benefit in different ways based on their use and environment.

In black and white, many herbs and supplements are abused with high doses and a brutish mental attitude. Salvia is no exception to the social norm of tripping around other people. The issue lies with instructional videos and guides conveying an inappropriate purpose behind the use of the drugs. A lack of facts can cause a person to use something like Salvia for the wrong reasons it was once grown for.

This philosopher’s drug cannot exist in nature on it’s own. The Salvia divinorum plant most almost always grow from the help of humans. It must be clipped and replanted carefully to grow again. This shows commitment of a serious nature. The same attitude should be carried over into the use of salvia, as a philosopher’s tool not a party source. If a person is avoiding this sort of heavy mind expansion other things can be used or salvia can be taken in low doses. Respect the plant and it’s abilities and a person will unlock a new part of their mind.

Reference: http://www.joergo.de/int_siebert_en/

The Outdoor Connect – A Salvia Trip

July 4, 2014 By John Reed Leave a Comment

Dose: 2 gram of Salvia Divinorum extract 20x
Method: Smoked
Body Weight: 170
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 30
Experience Year: 2014

Equipment and Trip Preparation: Just used my glass pipe and a butane torch as equipment. Knew a website I could buy salvia from without fuss so I ordered some up, of the 20x persuasion. Took the day off work, cleaned up the yard and set up my trip area a little, brought out something to play music on. Turned off my alarms and electronics. Put on my light weight waterproof watch and some standard Sunday relaxing t-shirt and shorts combination. I knew what the after-effects would probably feel like so I made some lemonade for later. I brought some pillows outside too in case I didn’t feel like moving for awhile

Mental Status and Environment: Some people like me with low stress life styles (no kids or wife) and easy enough jobs don’t have enough stuff to push them towards a big change. I have used Salvia before to soul search and just for fun, it always takes me deep. I like looking at who I truly am, even if I’m a pretty normal guy I know I have so much potential to unlock beyond my surface.

Tripping inside is very safe in my experience, and that is my go to environment. This time I wanted more, so I went outside. I took my preparation of dry salvia extract , my pipe, my favorite butane torch and sat down in my backyard hammock. It was warm outside but not too uncomfortable for me, I would probably get a little sweaty on the trip anyways.

Dosage: An oversized lump of the 20x salvia extract went into my pipe.

My Salvia Trip:

Initial response – I lay back onto my hammock. Totally taken aback by my decision to smoke salvia at all.. I feel like I am transforming in the hammock. I feel like I am becoming electrically connected to it. I’m used to the heavy sinking feelings and I just go deep. There are birds chirping and wildlife springing around me, and I feel them slipping away as I get deeper and deeper into the hammock cocoon. Bright spring light drifts between the branches and leaves shading my hammock. It goes a little dark from there..

Looked at my watch, must have been about 4 minutes had passed. Tried to grab my pipe to smoke more if I had not finished off the bowl. Didn’t know if I wanted to get a more intense trip but I Leaned over and nearly fell out of the hammock. Let out a laugh but my voice was gone. I felt the dirt almost touch my fingers. My backyard was like a warm womb, I just closed my eyes and considered what it might look like in my mind.

I fought the sleepy eyes for awhile, the trip was becoming a nap session in the garden rather than soul searching. I couldn’t look inside when the backyard was so open and the nature was almost consuming. I felt like I was becoming a part of my hammock.

There was a new connection to my surroundings I had not felt before tripping. This was the feeling I was missing, connection and concern for the nature of reality. Not some room with books and lamps.

Eventually, and I cannot remember why, but I made it out of the hammock and into the grass beneath. I layed in the grass then. I never got the boombox on but I was content enough until the sunset and bugs started biting. With a ton of effort, I remember it was really hard – I got myself inside and enjoyed the lemonade I made earlier that day and went off to sleep.

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How to Make Salvia Extract

June 3, 2014 By John Reed

How to Make Salvia Extract

Intro on how to make Salvia extract:

This article is meant to instruct a person on how they can easily make Salvia Extract from Salvia Divinorum leaf. You can grow your own Salvia Divinorum at home or buy salvia elsewhere. When making your own salvia extract, be aware that different strains have different strengths. With salvia extraction, you are only amplifying the natural properties of whatever strain you chose to use.

What we know about Salvia Chemistry is that the active ingredient that the plant contains is known as Salvinorin A, this is what you will focus on extracting. This process of extraction yields 10 grams +/- of unstandardized 5x-10x salvia extract, depending on how much you purify it. For 5x strength, complete parts A through D of the instructions. For 10x strength complete all instruction parts.

The instructions and prep list should be followed to the best of your ability. Using any low grade tools could be a danger to your health. If you are clumsy consider buying extras so you wont need to go back out for something. If you are using equipment you already have around the house, clean it up and make it spotless before you get started.

There will be a lot of down time between major parts of the process, be patient and use timers. The whole extraction process should be done in very low light. Exposure to direct sunlight can lower the strength of the extract you are trying to make. Printing out instructions and reading them over several times for clarification can be a big help for first time extractors.

What you need to get started:

½ yard of cheesecloth or a fine metal strainer. No plastic.
1 glass jar, big enough to hold max 1 liter of fluid – about the size of a pickle jar or mason jar. No plastic.
1 glass eyedropper (the kind with a rubber squeeze on the end). No plastic.
1 large Pyrex tray – casserole sized should be fine. No plastic.
1 large aluminum kitchen pan (a sauce pan works too). No plastic.
1 electrical hot plate. The kind you use in a lab or on a camping trip.
1 electric coffee grinder
2 liters of 99% pure pro-panone Acetone. If acetone is not available you can use 99% purity: Isopropanol, Rubbing Alcohol, and Isopropyl Alcohol.
300 milliliters of Naphtha, most commonly found in lighter fluid. You can buy more if you want to purify higher than 10x strength.
100 grams of Salvia Divinorum leaf
1 scale for weighing your leaf, precision up to .01 is best but .1 will work also. Must be able to handle 100g total weight minimum.
1 timer
1 medium sized fan

Extraction Process Instructions:

Part A: Dividing and processing the dried salvia leaf

How to make salvia extract 10 grams of leaves — Weight 10 grams of Salvia Leaves

Use your scale to take 10 grams of leaf out from the 100 grams your are starting with, this is for later use in the process. Keep the 10 grams safe, secure, and somewhere you wont forget. The remaining 90 grams of leaf need to be ground to a fine powder in the coffee grinder. Be nice and gentle with your coffee grinder, do not grind for more than 1 minute at a time. If you grind nonstop the machine may overheat or break. After a few minutes of on and off grinding, you should have the fine green powder. BE CAREFUL when you remove the coffee grinder lid, if you rush it will explode green powder everywhere and this will waste a ton of your leaf.

Salvia Leaves 10 grams Ground down — Grind down 10 grams of Salvia Leaves until finely ground

Part B: Breaking down the ground leaf to extract the Salvinorin A

Place the 90g of ground leaf in the large saucepan and cover it with the acetone. Stir this mixture for 5 minutes (set your timer so you make sure you do the whole 5 mins). Leave the mixture out of the light in a secure place for 8 hours. This process can be repeated multiple times to extract as much Salvinorin A as
possible – it is dissolving from the ground leaf into the acetone. After your 8 hour wait, pour the liquid through a strainer of your choice (cheesecloth or metal, whatever you bought as long as it isn’t plastic), into the Pyrex container.

Strained Acetone from Salvia — Use a cloth to separate the Salvia leaf from the acetone

Part C: Let the acetone liquid settle

The acetone solution you just strained needs to sit for 8 to 16 hours in the Pyrex container, overnight is best to reduce possible exposure to light. Again, keep this solution in a safe and secure location to keep it free from contamination. After this waiting period there will be sediment or a layer of slime looking goo on the bottom of your Pyrex container. The liquid which has separated should be poured off back into the clean saucepan. The goo sediment should stick to the bottom of the container, try not to let any slide into the saucepan with the liquid.

Part D: Evaporate the liquid in a well ventilated area.

You will need to take your saucepan full of the acetone liquid into a well ventilated area. Put the saucepan on your hotplate, with the hotplate set to medium. Aim the fan you have at the saucepan and turn it up to medium-high. Do not use anything which could set off a spark while the fan is expediting the evaporation process. To keep the liquid as stable as possible, avoid direct sunlight and if possible do this evaporation process at night or in a very dark room. The evaporation process can take awhile if you choose to not use a fan. The larger the saucepan the more surface area there is and the faster things will move along.

The current salvia extract you have (once most liquid is gone), is at about 5x strength (aprox). If you are content with the work you’ve put in, you do not need to do any more purification (if you want 10x strength then skip to Part E). If you want your 5x salvia extract, mix in the remaining 10 grams of leaf you set aside to the evaporated, thick and sticky black material you have in your saucepan. Cook this on low hotplate heat with low fan speed. This will eventually become dry salvia extract material and you should let it air dry for another few hours to finish evaporation.

Now you have approximately 10 grams of salvia leaf extract at 5x strength. This is smokeable, however most people choose to continue the purification process to achieve 10x strength or more.

**EXTRA PART FOR BONUS STRENGTH**

Part E: Additional purification for 10x strength extract

Take the cooked down dry salvia extract you have produced from parts A through D and place it in the glass jar – without the 10 grams you set aside. Add 50 ml Naptha to the glass gar with the dry salvia extract. Gently mix the two together, swirl the jar until well mixed. The Naptha will work to break down the dark plant material and separate it from the lighter Salvinorin A. Let this mix sit for 30 minutes. When time is up, use your eyedropper to pull out most of the Naptha from the top of the liquid (carefully discard the naptha), leaving the lighter Salvinorin A material in the jar. Repeat the Naptha mixing and discarding process with the eyedropper until the Salvinorin A material is no longer black. 5 mixes will achieve 10x purity. On your last mix, take out 2/3 of the Naptha and let the rest of the liquid evaporate. The color of your extract should be much lighter than it was at the conclusion of part D.

Once the purified salvia extract you just produced is mostly dry, place it in the clean saucepan you were using before. Add 2 liters of acetone to the saucepan, mix well to be sure the salvia extract is dissolved completely. Add in the remaining 10 grams of dry leaf you set aside (in part A) to your saucepan. Heat this at medium on the hotplate heat with medium-high fan speed. Repeat the evaporation process as you did in part D. This will eventually become dry salvia extract material and you should let it air dry for another few hours to finish evaporation process.

Now you have approximately 10 grams of salvia leaf extract at 10x strength. This is smokeable.

Conclusion

Best results will be achieved by thoroughly following these instructions. For your safety make sure to use only well ventilated spaces. Acetone will dissolve plastic so be careful not to stir any mixtures with it or use any plastic containers. Be careful when discarding all acetone and naptha.

The salvia extract you have produced is appropriate for smoking, it is different than oral consumption liquid like salvia tincture. With the increased strength of any extract it is important to know how to use it, read up on salvia effects before you go in. Finally, be sure to check the legal status of Salvia in your state before attempting to buy any plant material or make any extract.