🍄Poisonous Plant Medicine 🍄
Week 6 | Mandrake & Amanita: The Lost Wisdom of Shamanic Lineages

Mandrake and amanita muscaria are perhaps the most mythologized of all plant world beings.

Mandrake even makes an appearance in Harry Potter (yes, those screaming mandrakes are based on real plant lore!)

The red and white caps of amanita muscaria, also known as fly agaric, are perhaps the most easily recognized symbol of psychedelic plant medicine 🍄Most Christmas lore is actually rooted in amanita muscaria lore. Shamans of Northern Europe would wear red and white capes, going door to door to bring divinatory messages during the winter months - sound familiar? Reindeer are known to eat these little mushrooms, hence the mythology of flying reindeer and Rudolph’s red nose.

In the final class of this series we will speak about the forgotten shamanic lineages tied to these plants and discuss as much of their endless lore as we can fit in!

I'll be teaching this class tomorrow at @animamundiherbals and online on March 31st and April 28th.

Experimentations with Amanita Muscaria 🖤🍄🖤

Trying to learn the best way *for me* to work with this ally. The spirit of fly agaric is strong and my normal course of action would be to just work with it on a plant spirit level. But from the first time this mushroom appeared in my dreams it seemed to be encouraging me to ingest. Last week I had an ancestral healing session with @adrienne_sloan where I met an ancestor who showed me images of Amanita tea and asked for offerings of it. I never thought Amanita would be a central ally for me, but here we are.

Today is the last day to sign up for the Poisonous Plant Medicine series. The next time I offer this course, I will be raising prices for it. Tomorrow we will be learning about plant spirit communication and poison as medicine - the foundations for my work with poisonous plants! You can drop into each class individually or take the whole 6-week course. Week 6 is when we will learn from Amanita Muscaria.