thanks for the warm welcome and i apologize for the delayed reply.
self sufficiency is a worthy goal in all fields if you ask me. I'm glad the sentiment is a shared one.
to answer your question succinctly pandora, break throughs have been achieved with salvia without blindfolding, ear plugs or total darkness, but even with blindfold earplugs in the quiet dark and a healthy pinch of spice melted over an herbal bed nothing more than a fractal tunneling and mild diversion of normal thought patterns was achieved.
to make my answer even less succinct, salvia provided a zoomed out glimpse from my usual, constrained 4d (sp+tm) point of perception ("pop"
to a cognizance of multiple 4d "pop"'s to pick from. As it became apparent that much like a lucid dream I had to merely choose a new "pop" and then "poof" I'd be put into a new perspective, I panicked and requested retreat to my previous "pop" and was granted passage, and panting on my return, I felt perplexed but yet not puzzled. A gentle voice had responded to my request. Where it was sourced from I still don't know but one thing is clear, I was invited back.
I haven't gotten back there since. I honestly haven't tried all that hard, because I realize I have more to accomplish on this material realm before I'm fully qualified to return, but I feel, and my participation in this community reflects this, that I must prepare for my return because it and I will play a large part in each other's futures.
For whatever reason it didn't work last time I'm more and more coming to the mind that it was necessary to finding the proper path, especially by divorcing myself from the old ties that had brought it around in the first place. Much like a fractal is created by a balance of addition and subtraction, the molecule had the forethought to influence my relationship to it in both a positive and negative manner, speaking from a grossly qualitative sense.
shit. haha /rant