The Spiritual Use of Entheogens

[Eddie]

Our new member, sequoyah, has shared an experience with salvia:

Wanderer Stories > Greetings that I think is very worth reading.

In one of the Castaneda books there is a passage in which Don Juan speaks to Carlos about the "incomprehensible beauty" with which a tiny beetle perceives the Universe. Once, after smoking some Salvia divinorum, I perceived it too...and was fully aware that I was perceiving the universe as that beetle did.

One of the sad consequences of our consensus reality in the Western world, is that we tend to think in terms of a Darwinian evolutionary "ladder"; beings are "low", or "high", with us being the highest. We are not higher, and indeed, are blind to many truths that are revealed to "lower" beings. The beauty I saw through those beetle's eyes was so profound, so moving, so conducive to ecstasy, that I could easily spend eternity as a beetle, no longer blind to the miracles of Creation.