SALVIA DIVINORUM & THE ILLUSION OF TIME
My experience with Salvia Divinorum taught me the meaning of Eternity or Infinity as well as the meaning of Time, the Division of Time and the experience of Separation of the Self from Divinity.
While under the short spell of Salvia’s entheogenic grasp I experienced Eternity. More accurately, I should say the plant thrust it upon me with the fury of a rushing freight train.
While under its psychedelic grip, no matter what I looked at (usually the ceiling) I experienced that thing as Eternity. There was no time. There was only an experience of timelessness, even thoughtlessness for a few minutes. I could swear that the ceiling tiles I was looking at was entire universe itself. It seemed to be an endless thing that extended forever, like some sort of Cosmic Fractal. It is like the thing had no ‘place’ even. It was a perfectly static image, frozen forever in eyes that beheld it in a timeless frame of mind.
The effect of the plant does not last forever of course and I came down soon enough. The next thing I know is that my mind is starting to experience sequential divisions that occur with ever increasingly finer divisions. Imagine cutting a carrot in half, then into fourths, then into eighths, and so on until the slices are literally infinitely small, so small that the carrot is not even there. This was my experience of coming down from the timelessness of the Salvia experience. My mind was able to grasp “slices” of time with more and more frequency until minutes later, I was back in “normal” consciousness.
What I learned is that, as one eastern spiritual order puts it, I lost my “addiction to time” under the influence of Salvia.
The reason we experience time is that our souls are disconnected from Divinity. As I see it, this experience of disconnection ‘divides’ us from Divinity, which is experienced as Eternity or timelessness. Apparently, when one divides oneself against Divinity, then the experience of Eternity is divided as well, producing the false phenomenon called time, which can be defined as Eternity experienced as a series of ‘divisions’ measured as seconds, minutes, etc.
Meditation, if practiced correctly over a long time, can reproduce this eternal timelessness, at first for short periods. With more practice, this experience is lengthened. Eventually, the meditator can call this experience forward anytime.
The end result is what yogis call samadhi (or even mahasamadhi). It is a term used to describe consciously entering one’s own death. Essentially, extensive meditation produces the ability to return to the timeless state of eternity, which is the experience of Divinity Itself, to which we are all connected, despite what our senses tell us to the contrary. And the experience of Divinity returns to us the perception of Eternity, which is timeless.
The more we are connected to or obsessed with time and our day to day lives, the further our souls are from Divinity. The more we are engrossed with the things of the earth and the material world, the more we experience infinitely smaller and smaller divisions of Eternity itself into and experience we call “time”. The ancient seers called time an illusion. They also called the material world itself and the experience of our lives an illusion.
They were right. Totally right.
Salvia Divinorum can teach this.
