Gaining awareness is certainly possible and easy with psychedelics. Its a first step. However the question is, how can you go about using this awareness to benefit you?
I've no definite answer to this one myself. You've got to take everything you experience under the influence with a grain of salt.
It's *just* another reality as real as your day-to-day reality.
I'm hoping this to evolve into a quality thread on how to benefit from these experiences...
I've yet to try Salvia, but i've had my share of experiences. Subscribing to Castanedas point of view, i've found that every natural drug moves your point of awareness to one location.
LSD on the contrary tends to move your point of awareness to many different locations on the course of a trip.
For me at least, this is the reason that makes it much more difficult to gain benefits from LSD than from, say Shrooms or Meskaline.
It's not that easy to be learned/mastered than Shrooms or maybe Salvia are. I'd like to see a plan for mastering even those.
Certainly an interesting discussion here. Anyway, i've just ordered some Salvia along with fresh Shrooms. Thank god i live in Europe where you can order quality stuff on the net legally