User:BRW/Salvia Goddess

Taken from Google cache; I could not find the discussion about deletion before the page was removed. Perhaps merge into Salvia divinorum page?

The Salvia Goddess is a female entity that is often reported by those who have partaken of Salvia divinorum, a sacred plant of the indigenous Mazatec people in the Oaxaca state of Mexico. The Mazatec sacramental use of Salvia divinorum puts them in contact with a female entity that they associate with the Christian Virgin Mary. They call her "Ska Maria la Pastora'. Outside of Oaxaca, those who have partaken of Salvia divinorum also frequently see visions of a female entity as well. Users of Salvia divinorum outside of Mexico often call both the plant and the female entity Sally, or "Maria the shepherdess". Although descriptions of her vary, accounts at Erowid usually describe a shy and modest, but wise and thoroughly alien acorporeal disincarnate being, whose intentions generally appear to be the transferral of information relating to the personal growth of the person having consumed Salvia. Some reports detailing negative experiences will describe seeing or sensing a female entity reprimanding the author, and such usually occur when Salvia has been consumed in a reckless or cavalier manner, often in conjunction with other substances (particularly alcohol and/or cannabis). This implies that the entity demands the act of consuming Salvia to be accompanied with at least a certain degree of reverence, and if this is done, from what has been described, a positive experience is usually the result.


 * Machine elf
 * Psychedelic drug
 * Shamanism
 * Entheogen
 * Entity
 * Goddess
 * Salvia divinorum
 * Altered state of consciousness
 * Meta-universe