April 07, 2005

The Leaves of the Shepherdess

A healing salvia experience amongst the Mazatecs. by Kathleen Harrison

(first published in Sisters of the Extreme, edited by Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz, 2000)

Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist who studies the relationships between plants and humans, particularly as expressed in ritual and story.



Salvia divinorum FAQ

via The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center

Alex Gray's Art & Spirit Forum on the effects of taking salvia divinorum

More about salvia from Tripzine:
One of the most striking features of a breakthrough Salvia experience is the distortion of linear time. Sometimes, it seems as if one simply escapes linear time altogether and finds that all temporal coordinates are randomly accessible instantaneously...
Everytime I say "Salvia divinorum" out loud it reminds me of that scene in the first Harry Potter film where they are all practising with their wands. Actually, I've been eager to try this one sometime but somehow haven't run across it yet.