My First Salvia Divinorum Experience: Spinning Into Another Dimension

Ok, so this was my first Salvia Divinorum experience, i'll try to keep it short and sweet:

About 3 years ago a friend and I were sitting in her garden looking at a couple psychoactive plants she was growing and having a stimulating conversation about entheogen plants. She then mentioned a plant called Salvia Divinorum and told me that although she had never tried, that she heard that it was the most powerful psychedelic substance since the discovery of LSD.

I browsed the web looking for Salvia Divinorum experiences and effects and found a couple of websites selling the plant, so I got 30 grams of Salvia leaves right away with absolutely no idea of what was I getting.

I have to say that when I first smoked Salvia Divinorum I was extremely disappointed. I was spending the night at my girlfriend's (by that time she still lived with her parents) and I remember loading my pipe feeling nervous, thinking I was going to start screaming and laughing and moving uncontrollably, and how my g/f's parents were gonna wake up and find me rolling around in the floor...

So I took the first hit, I kept it inside my lungs until I turned blue, and then I took a second one, and yet a third. I started seeing something growing darker by my right side, so I turned... just a shadow from a speeding car.

I was so disappointed by it that I threw the bag to an old drawer and forgot all about the Salvia Divinorum experience.

A couple of weeks later I was planning a nice, fun weekend at the beach with my friends and I decided to give Salvia another chance, maybe at the beach I could experience the Salvia Divinorum effects I've been reading on the net...

So after spending half a day watching my friends getting drunk while I was sobering up, I built a super-mega-bong and loaded it with 7 big leaves.

I sat at the beach late at night with my girl, the full moon shining away in the ocean, the weather just perfect... I couldn't have picked a better night.

I got ready and told my girlfriend that if anything happened, she should just talk me through it, I would be out of it in about 10 or 20 minutes. So I took the first, deep hit and held it for what seemed an eternity, got my breath back and did another one...

Suddently, while I was still holding the smoke, something in my head just snapped: it felt like my brain had turned 180° and my body had lost the 3rd dimension, I was melted in the sand.

Somehow I felt my head and all my being spin in a clockwise direction, and as soon as the spin was over this whole new set of feelings came upon me, I had the certainty that I had arrived to a sacred place.

The funny thing is that all the time I knew my body was there, lying on the sand, and my mind wasn't altered in the way other psychedelics did. My mind felt clean, open and in contact with a divine force, the feelings of numbness, slowness or a "dreamy reality" that other drugs cause weren't there. I felt completely sober (although I felt an indescribable aching for a cigarette).

As you can imagine, its really hard to describe an experience like this when there's no reference or similar experience to compare it to, I find myself lacking the right words to describe such intense thoughts and feelings.

As I was saying, as soon as I found myself in that magical, sacred, alternate reality, I was immersed in the most powerful, loving and feminine presence.

Reflecting afterwards, I understood why the Mazatecs call this plant "Hierba Marķa", as for the Virgin Mary, or why many established religions put so much emphasis in the existence of a loving, all powerful female being, either derived from the "male god" (on male supremacy cultures) or being the creator and divine force in the world (like our ancestors believed at the cradle of civilization, as we can see in the venus' sculptures representing the female goddess).

If my girlfriend hadn't been measuring the time, I could have sworn that a couple of hours had gone by before I came back to this reality. I was wandering around in that realm, trying to get closer and talking to that presence (although I haven't been able to come into direct contact or get a spoken answer from Her) for what seemed like forever.

When I opened my eyes and my girl asked me how it was, I couldn't help to laugh and kiss her... How could I make her understand that I just came back from meeting god?

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