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Now to be fair, salvia is the most intensely reality-shattering drug known to man and there's no close second. DMT rivals or surpasses salvia in terms of pure intensity but DMT usually gives people more of a euphoric flash than salvia. So salvia is by no means a typical psychonaut experience.

I wouldn't say salvia is unimportant and I wouldn't even say it doesn't hold some truths. I personally feel like the salvia experience is a flashback to an earlier stage of spiritual existence that we might have transcended long ago.

My friends and I have done salvia multiple times between the three of us and together we have identified some common themes: the pull, the cartoonish nature of the salvia universe, angry entities, entities trying to coax you into going deeper for some reward, the sense of familiarity, the idea that you are "peeking behind the curtain" of reality, and warped time.

I do believe that the material world has multiple undergirding metaphysical structures holding it up, and salvia is a peak to the "lower" one. Maybe DMT is a look at the metaphysical structure above us. I've done DMT analogues but I've never done straight DMT so I can't say what I believe there.

The funny thing about salvia is that if you smoke it while on kratom or a strong benzodiazepine, you can actually get a great experience. My friend Max smoked salvia on Clonazolam and he had this experience where this translucent blue fairy would dance around him and promise to take him to this beautiful spiritual place. And it would move over different objects in the room and use this emotional language to communicate with him. It would touch things, or hover over things, and it would repetitively communicate the name of the thing in this weird hyperlanguage as if she was trying to teach Max how to speak it, like "chairchairchairchairchair wallwallwallwallwall MaxMaxMaxMax floorfloorfloorfloor."

Overall though salvia is a really unnecessary experience to have.