Shamanic Plant Medicine--Salvia Divinorum by Ross Heaven

Author:Ross Heaven [Heaven, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78279-253-6
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2014-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Wheels within Wheels

The motifs of wheels and cogs appear commonly in Salvia journeys. My participants have found themselves part of ‘circles that joined together’ or ‘trapped on a huge cog which was rotating, going round and round’, or they may become ‘a five-pointed wheel’ themselves and discover that, ‘Reality itself was the five-spoked wheel… It had infinite depth, like each spoke of the wheel was a long shelf stretching out into the distance… like a paddle wheel on a boat.’

The wheel or circle is a symbol that has been used across ages and cultures to signify wholeness, completion, unity, love, the circle of life or the wheel of destiny. It may also mean any of these things during a Salvia journey and act as a reminder from the plant about what is important in life: completion of ourselves through awareness of what is real (and unreal) about our lives, although its precise significance will also, for this very reason, be different for everyone who sees it.

Even so, the symbol often appears in relation to a need for love and completion. The first time she smoked, one of my participants, Deidre, felt ‘a rolling sensation’ and saw what she described as ‘a huge waterwheel’, accompanied by ‘a sense of something from her childhood’. She was at the time dealing with family issues and dramas that went back to her preteen years and in particular with the toxic residue of a father who she described as emotionally and physically abusive and who she thought might also have had a sexual interest in her.

Another participant who joined a different ceremony to gain insight into repetitive and dysfunctional relationship patterns also saw himself as ‘trapped… going around and around’, as in fact Deidre was doing in her own way. As a final example, a female participant actually became a wheel during her ceremony15 and began uncontrollably rolling in circles on the floor. The emotional issue she had come to deal with was the guilt she felt over the loss of her child. After the ceremony ended she was able to talk about this, and to begin her healing. ‘I realized that circling [i.e. carrying such guilt forever and going over and over the same ground] is no fun. In the centre [of the circle]… I was whole again.’

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