Confessions of a Salvia Sorcerer

Title: Confessions of a Salvia Sorcerer

A non-fiction book AbOUT the psychedelic use of the Mexican mint, salvia divinorum.

Author

The author name is stated as Brother Harmonius, who claims to be a Gnostic monk. No other information, besides incidental autobiographical information is known.

Plot

The book is written in journal or diary form, and purports to be a self-written bioassay of the spirituality and the psychological effects obtained from smoking the leaves of salvia divinorum. It is written in the tradition of other bioassayers such as Alexander Shulgin's PiHKAL and Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, but with aggressively ACTIVE engagements in the psychedelic environment. The author claims to use salvia to negotiate with and control psychic entities, which he refers to as "Totem Pole People".

Other information

Publication Date

The book does not contain a publication date. The title page says, "written in this Year 10 of Era Aquaria". The book does contain other referential information, however. It mentions the then owner of the entheogen.com website by name, with respect to the year 1997. It also mentions a correspondence with Owsley Stanley, who purportedly critiqued a design of a bear on a website Brother Harmonius claims to have built in 1998. Two paragraphs later, the author writes, "That’s where salvia was 10 years ago." Therefore, it is reasonable to place the year in which the book was written as 2007 or 2008.

Publication Type

There does not seem to be any printed publication of the book, which occurs commonly as a PDF ebook. Although the publication form can only be found as an ebook, it was clearly written at least in part on lined paper, as the manuscript contains several ink-drawn on lined notebook paper images, occurring inline with the text and in the appendix.