It's funny, I've studied a lot of psychedelics (probably because it was an area of research for both my parents), and salvia divinorum is a really really stand out plant in it's trips, it seems to be a very "technically philosophical" plant. Trip reports always go into weird things like "I became a book on a shelf for 4,000 years, and now I know inanimate objects are conscious", there is also the area of panpsychism and animism.

That stuff is all a little too mind bending for me, but pretty fun thinking for a Sunday morning. :)

well, i tried salvia and I tried shrooms. I don’t see how it’s more philosophical just because it’s a dissociative. at best, it’s more of an ego death than, say, shrooms, if during the trip you become an object. It’s still a unique plant for sure because of it’s dissociative effects. To thread lightly. AFAIK natives in mexico say that smoking it is very bad. and that u’re supposed to chew fresh leaves. maybe chewing fresh leaves doesn’t even cause the same dissociative effects which are unpleasant.