I just finished reading the cosmic serpent, a great book btw. I was curious if anyone here has seen serpent visions during a vaporized session? Or is this primary a ayahuasca vision? Or is the serpent just an overrated concept? I for one have not had these visions before.

The most memorable vision I had when I tried inhaled DMT was a women centered in my eyesight with radiant light and movement all around her. She was signaling to me with her right pointer finger, as if she was trying to communicate the number one to me. Later I noticed the cloak of Juan Diego and realized that the women I saw may have been the Virgin Mary due to resemblance of the vision to Juan's cloak (notice the signs of the cosmos, the sun radiant from her body, her star covered veil, she stands on the moon, and the angels wings are the primary colors). Then I remembered that almost every Mary statue I see has a serpent at Mary's feet, and she is known in the Catholic Church as the "crusher of the serpent" because of how the Mexican Indian tribes regarded her.

It's a pretty amazing thought. I believe that Mary is the Queen of the psychedelic realm and she wants us to be weary of the serpent.

Any thoughts?

I had a geometric, folding, shape changing serpent appear once during a vape session. It was actually really beautiful. It filled my entire field of vision.

I too have had woman appear from time to time. Once she formed out of what seemed to be millions of points of light and she immediately gave me the bird. That surprised me and snapped me out of the journey.

And once I saw a striptease type thing. She was coming out of a flat white surface and melding back into it over and over again. That was pretty awesome.

I Christian religion Serpent represents Satan,the evil spirit, fallen angel if you wish.

According to mythologist Joseph Campbell, snakes are symbols of death and rebirth. In his book "Psychedelic Anthropology", Allan Coult draws a distinction in serpent symbolism. He notes that snakes that are coiled are symbolic of evil. The snake outstretched is symbolic of enlightenment. This is tied into the kundalini imagery where the kundalini stuck in the root chakra is the snake when it's coiled, and when it's outstretched to the third eye where it meets the inward energy from the crown is "the goal".

I've seen snakes a handful of times on my vaporized DMT experiences. In the most memorable one, I was staring down a giant anaconda face to face. Its scales were very realistic, but with some DMT patterning. It was enormous, but I wasn't afraid. It didn't seem ill-intentioned.

I've also read several reports here where people have talked about having visions of snakes that consume them, and then they end up elsewhere - renewed. This to me lines up with the death-rebirth symbolism.

Sorry for the late reply to this, but I want to suggest the idea that the serpent does indeed have a dual nature so to speak, but is still the same serpent. In the good book the snake is a liar and a teller of truth. He says to eve, "eat this and you will know good and evil (truth). Then he said, "you be like a god". This was obviously false.

The serpent is Gods creation that was for lack of a better word "possessed" by satan in the Garden. But, in the story of Moses, God changes his staff into a serpent to intimidate pharaoh. So the serpent itself isn't the enemy, it's a tool of knowledge, but at the same time the serpent will tell lies and only with God divine revelation will one be able to sift through the serpents lies.