I recently wrote a research paper on The Trial by Franz Kafka. That same weekend I also tried salvia for the first time. It just occured to me how similar Kafka's writing is to a salvia trip. Kafka's writing is very often compared to reading an accurate depiction of a nightmare. The characters are uneloquently thrown into desperately futile situations. In The Metamorphasis, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning only to discover that suddenly he is a gigantic bug. What makes his writing so nightmarish is not neccesarily the situations that the characters are confronted with, but their reactions to their paranormal situation. They all try to go about the day as normal. No one says "OH MY GOD IM A BUG!!" Rather, he acts calmly about it and attempts to get up out of bed and go about his day as normal as he can. Under salvia one can experience a similar nightmarish situation. Its not nearly as dark and desperate (at least it wasn't for me). But the idea of being thrown into an unreal paranormal situation and trying to interpret it using logic and proportions is similar to both a salvia trip and Kafka's writing. Some people accept their altered reality under salvia. They just go with it and expect the unexpectable. Other people resist it and try to interpret what they see and feel with a sober attitude. If you try to resist it and process the unreal reality you're experiencing with logic, that could part of the reason why somepeople have bad trips. With pot, you can interpret your surroundings with logic because everything is enhanced. Not changed neccesarily, but intensified. With salvia your mind's interpretation of your surroundings is completely warped and altered. Trying to deal with the unrealness with a logical attitude would be nonsensical. You just have to go with it.
have recently read and earmarked and underlined several passages from his published Blue Octavio Notebook. very good guidance to the perplexed salvianaut. he may have been a natural but he was certainly onto something. cheenius!
