S2 | E10 Christopher Solomon

The Permission Slip · Jun 15, 2026 · 58m · transcript

I'll be honest — Salvia was a plant I'd never tried and mostly knew through the lens of chaotic internet videos. So this conversation with Christopher Solomon cracked something wide open for me. Christopher came to the States from Johannesburg at fourteen, studied psychology and finance, and spent years in a database job he found soul-crushing before finally following the thread that had been tugging at him since high school: a deep, ongoing relationship with Salvia divinorum.

We trace his whole arc in this episode — the bizarre early experiences, the moment an "intrusive" inner voice told…