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Erowid Experience Vaults Report Id: 32490

So We Enter the Aethyr

by Ashton R.

Dose: T+ 0:00 1 hit smoked Salvia divinorum extract - 10xT+ 0:00 1 hit smoked Salvia divinorum extract - 10x

Body weight: 100.00 lbs

When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. Theseexperiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently, Arjuna. Those who are notaffected by these changes, who are the same in pleasure and pain, are truly wise and fit forimmortality. Assert your strength and realize this.

-Bhagavad Gita 2:14-15

Hallucinations are images - disconnected pictures on a movie screen; presentations in symbol, opento interpretation. They can happen, or they can be directed - either way, like virtually everythingelse, they can serve as tools in the right context. Maybe because of the synesthesia, LSD (thefew times I tried it) never did much for me besides causing some gastrointestinal discomfort andhead pain. I have never tried mushrooms or mescaline - and will probably never try them, becauseafter a certain amount of time there is only impatience for the chemical alteration to end (I amwary of anything proposed to last longer than an hour in effect and after-effect). For myself, Ido not believe in taking drugs for recreation - but, one part of my take on the drug-related issuehas changed. If there is a specific intention, and - like anything else - if intuition points favorablyto furtherance (and the person is question holds sufficient maturity - is undertaking for a genuinepurpose and has the capability of wise discernment), I see no err in taking a drug as part of a

ritual; for spiritual purposes, or for purposes of gaining a different form of insight to a situationeither not accessible or blocked from consciousness.

So, it was with that intention and environment that I tried salvia a few weeks ago. It had beena while since I had done any kind of drug - psychedelic or otherwise (over the past year, theclosest Ive come has been smoking mugwort occasionally and taking one or two hits of hash onThanksgiving). From my interpretation of the accounts I had read and the information I foundon salvia, I was a little disappointed (the experience did not fall out of line with the descriptionsgiven - I would just describe it in different words; the way some accounts were worded gave ahyperbolic impression: using phrases like felt like dying, losing time, and loss of self. . . none ofwhich I experienced, but where I can see how what I did experience could be described in those

terms, from a differing perception). Anyway, heres what happened:I was in the living room with [a friend] sitting down with soft music playing and the lights dimmed.I took an experimental hit of the salvia extract - and the first thing that happened, almost instantly,was the sensation of wood both pressing into and growing from the hinges of my jaw. Two straightbranches of dark wood emitting from jaw hinges (seen) - and then a scene incorporating the parallelextensions into a construction. It was night-time, and I was hiding under desolate rafters at what

Exp Year: 2004 Added to Database: Nov 15, 2005

Gender of reportee: not specified

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down. So, grabbing some pillows and a blanket, we moved into my room and I situated myself onthe floor.

The second time around, the first thing felt was, again, the unpleasant pinprick sensation alongwith pain in the hinges of my jaw. Anticipating this, I attempted to breathe through it - which didnot help all that much. So, instead of trying to push it all away, I focused on the pain in my jaw

and looked around. The room was made up of flat plant creatures - like, seeing through the walland into void, there was a wall beyond the wall made up of flat, smooth green plants (arrangedlike snake-skin) with sharp teeth at the center of each one. Focusing on the pain in my jaw, itfelt like there was a giant spider trying to climb out of my mouth. A part of me looking downat me, I saw many huge tan-colored tentacles surrounding my lips - but I still thought it felt likea spider (Im having to make word adjustments - like the swinging flowers I saw actually lookedlike black marigolds, but I originally registered them as geraniums because they looked and feltmore like the word geranium than the word marigold. . . similarly, this feeling of something withmany legs is more closely attached to the idea of spider than octopus - as is the idea/sight oftentacles, for some reason).

Regardless of what it was, something was trying to push out of my mouth, and whatever it waswas causing pain - so I focused my energy on pushing it out. It ended up being an enormous,long, worm-like creature. As it was being pushed out, one of the wall-plants mouth opened (likea black hole, surrounded by sharp teeth) - and I pushed harder. I pushed until the tail of theworm entered into the void, and the plants mouth closed. I felt better.

By this point I had realized that I would not be able to lose control - I had to guide myself inthe traversion. I was hoping for some kind of direct realization, but it was not to be. I was in asomewhat dangerous realm of consciousness, and if I was not willing my motion in it, the darkerside of it could immerse me. There were some frightening images of death and decay, which I pulledaway from because I felt I could not handle them at the time (there were also voices coming fromevery direction, saying contradictory things - goading me, insulting me, praising me, telling lies,etc.) - searched elsewhere, and entered into loops of tunnels. Each tunnel had an end to it - like adoor or a light. Again, I realized that if my motion was not guided, I would only continue loopingthrough the tunnels - never reaching a light or going through a door. So, when I found myself ina tunnel and seeing the light/door, I focused all my energy on reaching the door. Opening it ifit was closed, or peeking through it if it was open. The amount of focus required proved to besignificant - a lot of concentration was needed.

Sometime in all this, wondering where I was, it suddenly registered that I was in the flow ofinformation (thinking about the lies in the voices sparked the realization) - and after that, Iresolved to do some magickal work; working with it instead of trying to let go. Traversing thetunnels, I opened as many doors as I could to the light behind them. I passed through many

images, but I was not able (or willing) to peek through every door I opened (either being pulledaway to somewhere else or just unable to remain long enough to look). Some were more difficultto get to than others. I dont remember everything I saw - but a couple things stick out.

One of them was being in what I would call a hallway - but was actually more like a defined roadcolored white - with the ground not being ground, but a falling away of ground in blue. The picture




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had a very technological feel to it. There were feature-less people walking along the road, wholooked as though they were made of white clay or coated in white plastic. Some were taller, somewere shorter - but they were featureless and clothing deprived, not male or female, and hairless.They were human. They were all passing under this door frame that was around the middle ofthe road. Nothing happened to them - the door frame simply happened to be there. I was like a

ghost, passing over them and through them. This did not seem very important/did not strike me- but I do remember it. More importantly, however, I remember a couple of other things:

During the exploration, I came across a pool of thick black water - it was almost shiny. The blackpool solidified into stone wall, and I knew that whatever was on the other side was something Iwanted to excavate. A pick-axe manifested, and I began chipping away. It was slow going, and Iwas soon energetically exhausted. I was surprised to find that underneath the stone I had chippedaway, there was only something like chunks of flesh - or something equally repugnant. I hadloosened the foundation, but the wall/pool was deep and sturdy. I remember someone standingnext to me in the space, though I did not pay much attention other than marking their presencein the periphery - I dont know who it was or what they were doing there, though they appearedto be male.

At one point, I encountered a human figure made of metal. I understood that the metal was acoating, and focused on blasting the coating (experimentally). The metal shattered, and therewas a coating of something else underneath. I continued blasting until the layers had all beenshattered, and (this was the only part of the trip that was real/did not feel like watching ormoving through images) - when I shattered the final layer, I felt a zap physically and mentallypassing through my being. I little burst and something like a clearing that permeated throughme. When all the layers had been shattered, there was only a floating condensation of shimmeringliquid gold. This zap only happened once more - when, after chasing down and breaking differentarmors (both energetically and in imagery) with varying degrees of success, I willed myself to thelake of renewal by calling down golden energy - infusing myself by drinking the water or having

the energy wash over me. . . same thing (the lake is the image of the occurrence - and a visualizationoften used in guided meditation or hypnosis for similar purposes: you are in a lake filled with goldwater and/or you are in a lake filled with silver water. . . you take a drink). The background ofthese encounters was just floating in black space.

I was trying to hold on to the trip - extend it - but after a time, it was just me working/forcing- and I was spent. I opened my eyes without any lingering visuals. Not mentioned, but throughthe whole trip, there were always plants and flowers either in direct view or in indistinct view(translucent overlay or felt presence). I hardly thought anything of mentioning it, because theplants and flowers felt so natural being there that I hardly noticed (as in of course there aregoing to be images of flowers. . . why wouldnt there be?). I believe the first trip lasted about 25

minutes, and the second lasted about 40 minutes. . . there were no lingering after-effects, except forthe expected short-term increase in head tension.




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