Thanks for the advice limeni and hybridoma. I think I will try diluting it with some honey. I feel like that might work. I'll post the results when I get a chance to make a go of it.

Alright so last night I tried the tincture again. I but 13 dropperfulls in a glass, some honey, and an equal amount warm water. I put half in my mouth and swished it for about 20 min. in complete darkness, sitting up, listening to some music. I swallowed, then repeated with the other half.

I could barely feel the "tingle" of sally right on the edge of my skin. Definitely was not baseline, but hard to call it an actual experience, so i decided to ramp it up.

Smoked a bowl of cannabis

Then packed a new bowl full of foliage. Normally, I really struggle with pre-flight anxiety with smoalked salvia. But this time, whether it was the tincture of cannabis or what, I dove right in. I kept my headphones in listening to some hard hard dubstep. I took two monstrous hits and held them in for as long as I could. and WHAM!!!

I was transported into SaliaSpace faster than I had ever experience, and was just short of having an OBE. It was incredible! not only that, but it lasted for probably 10-15 minutes, and even then I came down very slowly. At one point, I wasn't coming down fast like normal, and i thought to myself, "I am going to have to move/walk like this" (salvia state). Very cool, I never truly returned even close to what i was before smoalking the salvia, before I passed out in my bed and slept great.

So take from from that what you will. Good luck!

Initial experiment with the tincture was a semi-success. I dosed ~3 dropperfulls (unsure the ml per dropper) in three doses. Sublingual dosing with 95% ethanol is perhaps the most painful way I have used to get a molecule into my bloodstream, but after 30 seconds or so the saliva cuts it way down and it doesn't burn much. The bottom of my tongue did get leathery and my teeth did turn green for a while. I held each portion of the dose between five and ten minutes, after which there was too much saliva for me to hold, and I would slowly swallow.

Effects weren't extreme, but were clear and unmistakably s. divinorum. I had a distinct body-high, which while feeling very saliva-like was fairly pleasant - as opposed to my usual "top layer of skin removed, pinpricks and itching" saliva body-high. I felt somewhat euphoric, also the opposite of the usual dysphoria, fear, and confusion of smoking extracts or the infinitely existential neutrality of smoking dried leaf. No visuals to speak of, open-eyed or closed. The setting was in our tent, on the beach in northern california with a cold rain outside, at nighttime while my wife and our friend and our dogs slept. I was warm and comfortable, near the warm presence of my wife but with quiet and darkness for the Eyes of the Sheperdess.

It was very interesting and certainly warrants another go. My first impressions of this route of ingestion are positive, from the threshold (or the foyer, perhaps?) looks more hospitable than the realm entered by the Smoke. I could feel a healing presence there, perhaps that elusive goddess I've been hearing about for years but never seen the slightest evidence for, over there. In fact, the smoking path and especially the extracts seem almost non-populated, just gravity wells and shifting blocks with horrifically incessant repeating patterns... but subligually, Salvia seemed almost intelligent! Ah, so this is the Salvia Divinorum I have been reading about and never meeting!

After this tincture is gone, I don't think I'll be messing with salvia until I am settled down and have a Medicine Garden of my own to grow it in. I don't care about extracting it, not my line of curisoity per se, but She's a beautiful plant and quidding fresh leaves is probably the best way to go.