Salvia Divinorum: Doorway to Thought-Free Awareness

by J.D. Arthur

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 ideally accomplished by one member of each group, be it familial, tribal, or some other connection. It was implied that every small group of people should have one among them to remind them of the reality of death and to connect them to each other through this understanding. It seemed as though this is the natural order—to have a human connection with the other world.

Salvia Divinorum, legal in Utah while at the same time is hard pressed to legalize cannabis.