I am a student documentary filmmaker located in the Ventura County/Los Angeles area. My partner and I are pursuing a film about how the psychoactive herb Salvia Divinorum affects the human mind.
Roads Where There Have Long Been Trails
Kathleen Harrison
This work is protected by copyright.
It was first published in the Summer 1998 issue of Terra Nova: Nature and Culture.
It is reproduced here with the author's permission.
The Salvia divinorum Research and Information Center
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Daniel Siebert
Currently, one can view thousands of videos of teenagers and other mentally undeveloped people in the United States filming themselves while “tripping” on what they refer to as “Sally” or “Sally D”, promoting the irresponsible and disrespectful use of Salvia Divinorum. Hysterics have used these videos in a push to pass legislation against Salvia, and have succeeded.
Above is a digital image called 'The Lady', 2006, 30cm x 42cm by myself, as part of my ongoing ::salviaspace:: series of art works...
1. She is gentle. If you give her respect and take your time she will induct you pleasantly into a brilliant and shining world of intent which is equally jarringly shamanic, reassuringly and softly healing, oddly abstract and very earthy.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
