So. I have a bed-friend with whom I share a mutual interest in many good things - poetry, travel, emotions, Japanese rope bondage, visions, entheogens - and now pheromones.
Recently we have been experimenting with the visionary states induced by a plant (legal in most parts of the world) called Salvia Divinorum. The Mazatec shamans in Oaxaca, Mexico ask the aid of the Diviners Sage to find lost things (including souls), to foretell the future, and to travel in spirit form to other places.
The ally who lives in the plant can be very unpredictable when compared to those which reside within psilocybe mushrooms for example, and the visions produced by ingesting the plant can be very strange and sometimes quite, quite terrifying.
We had experimented separately prior to deciding to experiment together, and we had both had unnerving trips which had made us a little apprehensive in dealing with Her again. Sally D, like many other plant allies, does not respect fear. She is not as demanding of her votaries as some (like Datura), but she still requires one to approach Her with a modicum of respect, some humility and just a little courage.
In order to make our first trip a little easier to deal with we used 2 sprays of Instant Shine directly onto our faces, 8 sprays each of Instant Honesty on various body parts (neck, breasts/chest, thighs, genitals), and I sprayed 2 shots of IMF onto my hair.
We made love for a few hours, then smoked 8 large joints of Salvia between us over what may have been 2 hours (I decided to stop watching the clock when it melted in Daliesque fashion). The love-making was much gentler than is usual for us, and there were times when she and I were doing nothing but staring into one another’s eyes and breathing in unison.
The ally opened a door for us to enter Her realm and I felt a sensation of being sucked downwards and to the left into a vortex. (My bedfriend claimed to have felt the same pull when she and I compared notes later.) I was somewhat expecting this, but I sensed some fear in my bedfriend which I attempted to banish by nuzzling her neck (and thus having her breath in large lungfuls of the Instant Female Magic in my hair). This had the desired effect and she began to shiver with pleasure.
There was some sort of resonance set in motion by the power of the plant, and the molecules making up my body began to vibrate at the same rate as her body. There was a sudden shock when I noticed that my thighs and hers had melded together, but once I got past the fear there was a very wonderful sensation of being part of a sea of vibrating bliss in which the various parts of body, mind and soul of my bed-friend and I mixed and mingled and became indistinguishable. It is difficult to describe the intensity and wonder of this stage in the vision, so I will not try. But either my bed-friend or I began to weep with joy.
Some more Salvia was smoked and there were some visions (none of which are really worth putting into words). There was a period during the trip where we both became “separated” and had our own visions which were not pleasant. I had the intuition that Sally D is very secretive and “shy” and does not like parties of people rampaging through Her domain unless they are joined intellectually, emotionally (and perhaps in other ways) with a desire to learn from Her.
I felt that the Instant Shine helped somewhat to reduce the nervousness we both had before embarking on this voyage, and helped to make the sex a lot happier and care-free, that the Instant Honesty charged the sex with a lot more “meaning” and helped to create a bond that kept us from pursuing separate visions, and that the Instant Female Magic made my bed-friend a little more relaxed.
It is quite odd, because I had not really noticed any effect from Instant Shine prior to this experience, but I definitely feel that it made things a little “lighter” and more fun during the trip. Heavy emotions, like fear and anger and even too much expectation, can drag one into very unpleasant visions, and it’s my experience that it only takes a little push for the Salvia visions to become nightmarish, especially at higher concentrations of the plant when it becomes impossible to pull out of the vision.