Poisonous plants have long been misunderstood and even forbidden, yet they hold a special medicinal power. Let’s do as our ancestors did and carefully, respectfully ally ourselves with this potent family of healing herbs.
IN THE INTRO:
Poisonous plants, visionary journeys, and Samhain/Halloween witches
IN THE INTERVIEW:
How trees and plants companioned Kathryn through her dark and disconnected teen years, led to her meditation practice and relationship with wrathful deities, and eventually brought her to the poison plant path
Safety: we are not talking about ingesting these plants, but working with their spirits
Making space to integrate traumatic experiences
My recent experience with belladonna
What happens when many people all tune in to the same plant spirit
The effects of deliriant plants
How (not) to work with datura, a gateway plant into underworld/angelic work
How the scent of plants can bring us into deeper relationship with them
Gender, pronouns, and plants
Reclaiming lost visionary lineages
Being aware of projecting our desires and our wounds onto plants
When plant knowledge transmissions get broken through the ages
When Amanita muscaria came to Kathryn in a dream
Exploring the myth of Persephone
The dose makes the medicine/poison- the poisonous plants used in modern medicine, and the different mechanisms of action by which they can harm
LINKS:
Kathryn’s website
Ben Vierling art website
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Poisonous Plant Book Recommendations-
Pharmako Gnosis: Plant Teachers and the Poison Path by Dale Pendell
Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and its Applications by Christian Ratsch and Albert Hoffman
Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch, and Wolf Storl
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers by Richard Evans Schultes, Christian Ratsch, and Albert Hoffman
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart
Malleus Maleficarum
Hammer of the Witches on the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast
Witches & Witch-Hunts: A Global History by Wolfgang Behringer
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
By Ben Vierling
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