I first drank San Pedro in the 1990s and that experience overturned everything I thought I knew about reality. During my visions, out in the mountains, I saw a stairway of light on a nearby hill and I called my shaman over to explain it.
"There is nothing to explain", he shrugged. "It is a stairway of light".
"You mean you see it too?" I asked.
"Of course", he said. "Take a photograph if you don't believe it is there". I thought he was crazy. How could I photograph a vision: something that was just in my head? But I didn't want to be disrespectful so I took the picture anyway.
Later I got it developed, and there it was: a stairway of light, just as I'd seen it, although I had never seen it there in the mountains before and you will probably not see it now. I called my shaman and he came over to look at the picture, although he didn't seem that surprised by it, like I was.
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!" he said. "These things are not just in your mind. They exist. San Pedro opens your eyes to what is already there!"
San Pedro had shown me reality as it actually was, but it had also changed what I thought of as real. I now understood the vast power we humans have, and that we can manifest anything we choose; we just have to believe we can. San Pedro teaches us how to believe.
