Kindle Notes & Highlights
own motives, expectations, and predispositions,
Salvia did not fulfill any of my personal philosophical predispositions but, rather, devastated them. The touchstones that had served to define my concept of reality have had to be discarded, and a completely new set of reference points installed in their stead.
Very note worthy.
It would become disturbingly apparent that this realm of experience is the real one.
Many have noted when in the other life, our mortal journey is the illusion. Not the other way around
Often there would be others present, perhaps in a peripheral context, who, I was given to understand, were the newly dead. As strange or improbable as this might sound, it was repeated so often, and in so many ways, that I was constrained to regard this as an emotional certainty during the course of the trance.
Visits to the spirit world.
a British family made their appearance. I thought at first that perhaps they were sent to guide me, but had the distinct feeling that they were among the newly dead. The father (I didn’t actually see the family, but knew there was a mother and two children—a son and a daughter) seemed pleasant but somewhat confused and disoriented. This scene seemed particularly sad, due, no doubt, to the implication that the family had perished together.
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After smoking a second time, shortly afterward, I found myself in the presence of “welcomers,” an elderly man and his wife. There was a lighthearted tone to this meeting, the man joking with his wife that there was no need to get “dressed up,” or something to that effect, since “he’s not dead” meaning that I was a false alarm. I also found this very funny; the humorous tone lasted even after I returned to normalcy. The gist of my instruction here, although not framed by any specific events, was a very obvious realization that, as humans, we need connections with the dead. Evidently, this is
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Salvia Divinorum, legal in Utah while at the same time is hard pressed to legalize cannabis.
After smoking a second time, shortly afterward, I found myself in the presence of “welcomers,” an elderly man and his wife. There was a lighthearted tone to this meeting, the man joking with his wife that there was no need to get “dressed up,” or something to that effect, since “he’s not dead” meaning that I was a false alarm. I also found this very funny; the humorous tone lasted even after I returned to normalcy. The gist of my instruction here, although not framed by any specific events, was a very obvious realization that, as humans, we need connections with the dead. Evidently, this is
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"They are here..."
They were evidently about to be taken up onto the platform and somehow rewarded—seemingly by being transported deeper into the ecstatic yellow light.
Interesting book. I read it all in one sitting yesterday. See my entire review on Amazon
The thought that such experiences can later be dismissed by “rational” understanding is laughable.
This state is more real and more tangible that our physical mortal state is the 'real' illusion
