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  ENERGY SHIFT

 

It was mid-morning, light but not "bright" room. Two tokes of 5x

held for 30 seconds. Eyes closed.

A couple of things had been on my mind; I was planning a trip to a local nature sanctuary the next weekend to do some volunteer work and anxious to return there in two weeks to attend a drum circle/ "end of summer" celebration. However, before smoking I took a few minutes to clear my mind.

As soon as the salvia hit me, I was "there" at the sanctuary, the forest all around me. I could sense others. We were all moving through the woods with great intent but, I was unclear of the particulars. The word "earth" was foremost in my consciousness. This imagery folded out in front and to the sides of me like a book or fan opening up in sections. I was still aware, somewhat, that I had just smoked salvia. I realized I had better lie down and did so on my couch. I could feel the familiar "electric" energy moving through me causing me to want to stretch out, to elongate my spine and I did so.

Suddenly, several things came to me at once; I realized that in my first salvia journeys this unfolding of the fan or book had been from my head, vertically and that for some time, I had been experiencing it as unfolding horizontally, around me. The vertical unfolding most often connected me to a higher, or "different" place, a feeling or experience of the multi-dimensionality of my consciousness shooting out and becoming one with a greater Whole. The horizontal trips always involved familiar, though typically multi-dimensional places, with a definite "earth-plane" feel and content.

I suddenly understood that these trips were a direct result of the degree to which I am focused on earthly endeavors at the moment. I tend to go through periods where I "step back" from everyday events and observe myself, outside of myself, creating my reality with detached awareness. Other times, (recently) I become too involved in the details and even "bogged down" with all the "doing". Whatever my present focus, it is somehow connected to this moving of energy which I experience during SD journeys. That "stepping back" or raising of my consciousness coincides with a raising of this energy and being stuck on the earthier plane represents some type of blockage. I also realized that, for me, these periods of focus coincide somewhat with the seasons (summer is very busy, winter is coming - a time to rest, reflect). I realized there was much that I could do to create more of a balance between these two (take time for meditation, simplify my schedule, do more yoga) as I had started to become somewhat overwhelmed. Perhaps it was my deeper consciousness preparing for the coming seasonal change....

Salvia is great for opening up those little windows of the mind and revealing what you didn't know that you knew....

Kundasally

 

       OPENING THE BOOK

 

My typical salvia experience involves a "splitting up" of consciousness into several dimensions. It usually occurs as if my consciousness is opened up (like a fan) or stretched out (accordian-style).

During this particular journey it felt as though there were unlimited, multi-dimensions to my consciousness and I experienced this as a "fanning out" as if you fanned the pages of a book with your finger. Each of these pages were a separate and unique function of consciousness and each sprouted into the universe like shoots of vegetation, continuing to grow and branch out into fractal-like patterns. I sensed that there was no end to this growth, that these branches eventually became intertwined with every other known consciousness, seeding one another to create the drama of the universe and life as we know it and beyond what we can imagine. All these branches originated and were rooted in a common Source.

I was left with the impression that what is common for most people (who have not had a consciousness-expanding experience) is to go through life perceiving themselves as a hard-shelled seed that must be protected (from what?). They have no inkling of the tree within, much less the trees within that tree's seeds, etc.

 

A little synchronicity: The same day after my salvia trip I was with my daughter (she's 24). Sitting in her apartment, I picked up a magazine and opened it to a display of some wall hangings that had been made by folding the corners of the pages in a book so that they fanned out like a 3D sculpture. I think I laughed out loud. I pointed to one and said "This is what salvia does to my consciousness. Before, I'm just a closed book."

 

Kundasally