Salvia Divinorum Info

Something interesting to note is that typically Salvia is refered to as a female entity:

Mazatecs for instance regard the presence they encounter in Salvia space as the virgin Mary (the Sheperdess) and what I can say about many of my experiences with the Diviner's Sage is that I, too, encounter a female entity, the one embracing everything else in Salvia space... the godess, the ever-loving, infinite, full-of-light (and sometimes overwhelming and terrifying) ruler of that dimension.

Mazatecs, being converted to catholicism by the spanish colonizers, had to transplant their gods and beliefs into a creed that fitted into the imposed religion.

They managed, in a very intricate way, to keep their deities and spiritual entities, by merging them with the christian idiosyncrasy and hence making them harmless and invisible to the eyes of the colonizers (or invaders, as the Huicholes from Mexico call them)

Lady Salvia then, is seen as the virgin Mary's spirit, just as the magic psilocybin mushroom is said to grow where Jesus spat and/or where he fell when carrying the cross...

NOTE: Mazatec culture and their use of the sacred plants is very interesting, starting with the life of Maria Sabina and getting deeper into the unknown rites and world-views of their culture... it is a very worth-while topic of study to understand a culture that gives intrinsic value to these sacred medicines instead of satanizing them.

ORIGIN

Salvia Divinorum is native to Oaxaca, México and it's been used for divination an healing purposes by the Mazatec shamans for centuries.

Its ritual use is very similar to the magic mushrooms ritual: they take place at night, in complete darkness, and in complete silence (you can see why in the "SD Effects" section).

After the leaves are ingested (Mazatecs use only chewed Salvia, apparently they haven't experienced the greatly stronger effects that smoking the leaves or an extract can give), the patient and the "curandero" or healer lay down and stay completely quiet; if the intensity of the visions is enough, the shaman can identify the problem and give the patient the corresponding advice.

Maria Sabina once said: "If I want to heal a sick person in times where there are no mushrooms, I must turn to the pastora leaves. When minced and ingested they work just like the sacred mushrooms.

By the way, if you have never heard of Maria Sabina, she is the Mazatec curandera that introduced Gordon Wasson, John Lennon and some others to the mushrooms (if you are interested in reading a little bit about her wisdom click here)

It is presumed that Salvia Divinorum is the sacred " Pipiltzintzintli" (the most noble child prince) that the Aztecs venerated and used in some of their rituals (Have you ever tried pronouncing Pipiltzintzintli? Try saying it really fast three times in a row... Huh? I thought so!)

Still, Salvia Divinorum info about its ancient use is limited and controversial...

The Mazatecs usually ingest 26 leaves, making a sort of cigar and place its tip under the tongue, chewing and sucking the leaves' juice and keeping it in their mouths for about 30 minutes, to allow absorption via the oral mucosa (Salvia Divinorum is not absorbed through the digestive system: the enzimes from the stomach break down Salvinorin A before it reaches the brain)

BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION

SALVIA DIVINORUM INFO

Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Lamiales

Family: Lamiaceae

Genus: Salvia

Species: S. divinorum

Salvia Divinorum is a perennial herb in the mint family. Although the "ska pastora" is the only psychedelic plant known in the mint family, there are about 500 Salvia species around the world. The plant grows in large groupings to well over 3 feet in height and it has large green leaves, hollow square stems and beautiful purple/white flowers.

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