Tripping On Physics

Huffing a fuckload of Salvia Divinorum extract is like going on a topologically impossible rollercoaster with a couple of dimensions too many.

If superstring and M-theory are right, and there are six extra dimensions curled up into a calabi-yau manifold orthoganal to every point in our four dimensional space-time which we continually pass through but never experience, (because our senses and intuition are tuned to the macroscopic, the classical, local world, constrained by the speed of light and confined to our four extended dimensions, instead of the microscopic, quantum, non-local and entangled base nature of the universe, we can only perceive the result as opposed to the process), then Salvinorin-A plunges you into a state of perception which is as close to physically experiencing such a higher dimensional space as I suspect y're going to get without a substantial rewiring of the brain and central nervous system. And when I say physically experience, I mean it. No hallucinogen I've ever taken before has so profoundly altered my tactile perception of the enviroment, or created such an ovepowering link between the visual and kinaesthetic elements of the trip. At one point, my TV screen bulged out like an expanding transparent membrane and slowly wobbled and snaked it's way across the room, passing through me with a very distinct sense of it stretching as it touched me, before moving through with a feeling of what I can only describe as gravity where the front of the membrane (event horizon?) was. Weird fucking shit.

If you ever read Einstein and wondered what time dilation really feels like as you approach the speed of light, or wondered what entering a wormhole's singularity would be like, well folks, this is yr smoke. The sensation of velocity, and of time slowing is palpable. The peak of the hallucinations only lasts a few minutes, but it can feel like days. Powerful fucking stuff. Go and watch this animation of the three dimensional shadow of a hypercube rotating through four dimensions The world on Salvia looks, feels and sounds like that, but more so.