Salvia is such a slept on hallucinogen, I would highly recommend it if you have experience tripping. It's legal in California.
It's not fun in the way party drugs or low dose mushrooms are, it's more of a type-2 fun, not necessarily fun in the moment but sure as hell gives you a unique experience to reflect on when you're sober 10 minutes later.
> more of a type-2 fun, not necessarily fun in the moment
This is a funny and accurate way of looking at it.
After trying it a few times I felt like I had seen everything salvia had to show me. A dissociative kaleidoscope that leaves you coughing and sweaty loses its novelty pretty quick.
I haven't touched it in many years as well (though this thread has made me curious how I would feel about it now, so I may change that), but I think I attribute a lot of my general stability/resilience to bad trips when it comes to hallucinogens to my salvia use giving me experience with a mindstate that can easily tip into an H.R. Geiger kaleidoscope as you said.
IMHO not worth it — salvia is terrifying much more often than mushrooms / acid. Definitely not something for a "first time psychonaut," and certainly shouldn't be legal.
Among my most terrifying dissassociative moments (you will not know who you, nor anything else, is).
Correct, even though it was the first hallucinogenic substance I ever tried I would not recommend that other people do the same thing, the potential for a bad trip if you're inexperienced is very high.
It's not fun in the way party drugs or low dose mushrooms are, it's more of a type-2 fun, not necessarily fun in the moment but sure as hell gives you a unique experience to reflect on when you're sober 10 minutes later.