Eyes of the Shepherdess

Eyes of the Shepherdess



I'm not sure how many of you oldheads and psychonauts know about this amazingly powerful and endlessly intriguing plant called Salvia Divinorum. Many call it Salvia. Some call it Seer's Sage or Diviner's Sage. Fewer, ancient shamanic peoples refer to it as Eyes of the Shepherdess or Herba de Maria Pastora, Eyes of Maria the Shepherdess. It is a very rare plant, native only to a small part of Mexico in the mountains. However, many ancient Mayan and Aztecan shamanic priests use this plant in ritual ceremonies held when attempting to navigate a large roadblock in their lives. The resulting experience is powerfully profound and the priests often report gaining incredible personal insight and wisdom. Moreover they report in their altered state of consciousness their creative and abstract thinking were powerfully enhanced, allowing them to view problems and solutions in entirely new perspectives.

Now, some of you may be thinking . . . "Okay cool, a really trippy psychedelic plant. What's new?" Well a lot is new. Salvia Divinorum is wholly unique in that it affects the brain in a way that no other plant, drug, or psychedelic does or ever has. From this comes a completely new and unmatched experience. It is the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen next to di-methyl triptamine (DMT), a topic I plan to cover in the near future. For all the chemistry/neurobiology/ethnopharmacology buffs in the audience, Salvia Divinorum is a potent and selective kappa-Opioid receptor agonist. However, it is an even more potent D2 receptor partial agonist, and it is likely this action plays a significant role in its effects as well. Salvinorin A has no actions at the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor, the principle receptor active during the effects of "classic" hallucinogens and psychedelics such as mescaline or LSD.

Many of the users claim contact with a gentle and kindred spirit or consciousness, some reporting strong maternal energy/vibrations from this decidedly female entity. Few users experienced consciousness shifts such as inhabiting inanimate objects, fewer still reported "bad trips" and experiencing very great and profound fear. A very high number of users report the female energy explaining to them that the Shepherdess can only guide you if you let go. You must fully surrender yourself to the experience in order for her to help you and guide you through your "trip". Many users report experiencing or relate the experience to lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, near-death experiences, altered states reached through meditation, and most frequently: ego death.

This plant has been perplexing and intriguing citizens, professors, botanists, psychologists, neurologists, ethnopharmacologists and philosophers alike. Many think it is key to evolving into higher states of consciousness and tapping into the universal collective conscious. Is it true? Or is it a bunch of hippie bullshit? You tell me.

Suggestions for further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum
https://www.erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia.shtml
http://www.sagewisdom.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_death
http://www.shroomery.org/4018/Howto-Ego-Death
http://ascensium.com/ego-death/
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Salvia doesnt work on me regardless of the extract. Tried 4x (times, various strengths) and ill I got is an awful cough and sharp headache after watching a few others reactions ive decided I am grateful to be unaffected.

Have a buddy who is the same way, the shit just doesnt work.

 

I'm not a fan of extracts myself. They're harsh and unnatural. I think the way a person should receive the experience is through chewing the leaves.

 

I tried it once in college and literally felt like I was on another planet for a good minute or two. I felt like someone else had control over my body as if I was a puppet on strings and everything around me was morphing in to one object.

When I took the hit my friend said "see you in a minute" as I was blowing it out which probably helped me with having a horrible time. At first I started laughing and so was everyone else around me. My laugh started to get deeper then I started saying wtf over and over looking around all crazy. I kept trying to stand up but one of my friends that was with me at the time kept pushing me back down saying "it will be over in a minute"... When I finally snapped back to reality I felt traumatized for the rest of the day as if I just witnessed my best friend get hit by a bus or something. A buddy of mine recorded it but it's kind of hard to explain in great detail what exactly it felt like unless you were there.

 

It seems that, generally, people who get the crazy psychedelic mindfuck type of trips are people who are smoking extract.

 

Okay fixed the original video link, should be working properly now.