Humito's 5th experience with Salvia Divinorum
5x extract from Cosmic Trading.
bought at Pluto on the Nieuwe Binnenweg, Rotterdam.

It's a pity, because there are some nice people there, but the owner makes the atmosphere. But I shouldn't expect more from somebody who approves of tobacco, coke and alcohol, but is afraid of any psychedelic. Why am I talking about this again? Not because I enjoy it, but to make clear that in "de Koffieshop" it wouldn't have been as safe to smoke salvia than in " 't Trefpunt". The SET and the SETTING are crucial for the effect of a psychedelic session. Even more than the substance you take, the set and the setting determine how your yourney will develop.

Your personality or caracter defines the SET, but also how you look at, or get prepared for the session. The inner factors. All factors from outside make the SETTING. Where, when, do you feel safe. Also small things like turning of the telephone or the doorbell. Is it possible you get disturbed by others? All outside factors that can change your trip drasticly and are very important if you want to make a good trip.

Again I want to make clear that I regret what has happened. The customers from de Koffieshop are almost all very nice people. Of course I ( with my big mouth) did have some confrontations with certain people, but nothing that would have disturbed our good realtionship. Usually just a confrontation between me and another, ventilating our different opinions:-)). I'm not a person who does not mince his words and very often I speak out my opinion:-). As far as I'm concerned I respect everybody's opinion, even if it lays lightyears apart from mine, so it will never be more than a dispute. I can only respect someone who stands up for his opinion against me. Although I think my opinion is right, I could also be wrong:-)). Besides this all has happened just recently, so I'm still pretty preoccupied with it.

I had smoked salvia before in 't Trefpunt and now I wanted to show somebody what happens to me when I smoke it. So when felt like smoking, I let him sit with me so he could observe me.

We sat down on a couch in the corner, where it's somewhat darker. Anneke was going to help me with my glass waterpipe, sometimes necessary when the salvia starts working and you still have the pipe in your hands. This can also happen when you need to smoke several pipes before the effect is felt. Another person joined us, so now I had two people, besides Anneke, watching me.

This time I didn't take a certain part from a half a gram. This has been, up till now, my measuring method. Take half from half and you have 1/16th grams, we allready started with half a gram. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and so forth. This of course is not a very secure way of measuring, but with these small amounts, I think it's good enough. I have a new method , but that one is also not very precisely. With this way it's even possible that one time might be 3 times stronger than the other. But you can control that yourself. I have led my method a little bit from the Mazatec-indians. Their custom is to work with pairs. When a "curandero" wants to give you two, he means he'll give you two pairs. This is not only custom with the salvia leaves, but also with mushrooms. Even when younger or smaller persons gets mushrooms or salvia, they get pairs of smaller leaves or mushrooms. I use a spoon-dosage now. I still had some old coke-spoons and I use these for the dosage. For a good effect I use 10 spoons without a head on it. Also this time I was going to use 10 spoons.

When I lightened the pipe I almost immediatly felt that it would be enough for a good effect, also because I smoked it all in once. Then I inhaled the smoke deeper into my lungs. That usually will do it for me with 5x extract enhanced leaves.

With enormous speed my body is pulled away, my body is dissolved. Only my eyes are still observing. It's like I have become the couch. Then it really hits me! I'm certainly not the couch, but at the same time I am. Now I have become 't Trefpunt. I am looking with the eyes of 't Trefpunt. It has taken me over completely, something has invaded me and that something is 't Trefpunt. The only thing I can do is observe, totally overwhelmed by the feeling that my body is taken over. It is a beautiful feeling, a total peace, or more like a surrendering to what is happening. Being 't Trefpunt I was looking at all the other people there. I look up and I see someone sitting on the arm of the couch. It's a play of colours, always moving, a mozaic that's constantly changing. The change is the movement of all parts in the whole. Everything is connected with something we cannot even see anymore. The air has become a compact mass and all things seem to have lost a dimension. Everything seems flat, and when I say flat I mean flat, very FLAT!!! Although there is a sort of depth, I have never seen anything this flat. I'm missing a dimension, but I don't know wich one. I have noticed this lack of a dimension before. Now everything looks flatter than it has ever done. Evrything is moving and pulsating, radiating energy and it all seems to have a deeper meaning. I have to laugh about that and I mumble that it's impossible. Then I look to Anneke who sat on another chair, next to a table and she looks friendly, smiling at me. It's all astonishing, the colours are running through eachother and then melt together again to become what they were. Then I see the other guy who was sitting with us. He looks at me and asks Anneke something, at least that's what I make of it. Then I hear the voice of Anneke resounding: " yes, he is really far away now". At that moment I begin to slowly feel my body again. All movement behind me and also in front of me, slowly begin to come to a standstill.

It's as if I, as a pure energy creature, what I was, changed back again in flesh and blood. But the strange thing is the feeling I am loosing something. As if, because of some action, I am pushed in a body. Quickly I recognize it as my own. With the feeling I have to laugh uncontrolably, I'm getting more and more in touch with my body. Then I remember I have smoked salvia. Also how this makes me feel, amazes me, and faster and faster I come back to my old self. After looking around, a bit amazed still, I get up and walk around a little.

Then I tell the others what I had experienced and I still feel a bit trippy. A wonderful stoned and mystic feeling remains and I decide to lengthen it by smoking a nice pipe of weed.

If I had experienced all this in the other coffeeshop, I might have had a feeling of unhospitality. It's obvious that you carefully choose the spot, where you want to use it. Don't let it be the place, where you come daily out of habbit, but where you're really not completely comfortable. Again, I'm glad I had this experience in a relaxed shop, so I myself changed into a relaxed shop. So not the "chace away chairs" mentality, in wich I inevedably would have changed for this short, but impressive time.

Again salvia has tought me a lot, too much to mention. Most things are so personal that they don't apply to anyone else. Also I think it's better you find out certain things yourself, so it'll make a deeper and better impression. I will certainly write down other insights I get, so it can be shared with as many people as possible.