Join us for a deep dive into the mystical realms of the psychedelic Amanita Muscaria mushroom, also known as the Fly Agaric, as well as a conversation on the importance of annual community gatherings with the seasons of the year as a bridge of connection to our ancestral roots.
Carissa Ervine is an herbalist & astrologer who has spent years researching and exploring the Amanita, uncovering this fungi spirit's magic that makes us question our relationship to time and our physical reality.
Our conversation takes an unexpected turn into a discussion of the polarity of life and death, darkness and light, and how our human conditioning tends to stray away from things considered dark and painful, when this is truly a part of the nature of existence.
By opening the doorway of conversation with and about the Amanita today, her spirit guides us to contemplate the not so love and light parts of the human life.
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Time Stamps
1:00 Carissa's path with plants
6:55 Carissa's journey with mushrooms
8:11 Amanita myths, stories, & Christmas connections
12:41 Psilocybin vs. muscimol
18:30 Why ingest amanita? Medicinal properties & dream worlds
24:40 Amanita as pain medicine
28:10 Teachings of amanita
29:34 Ganja's sticky spirit
33:35 The uninitiated Western culture & the importance of seasonal gatherings
44:37 Dark and light forces as part of the whole
49:00 Amanita, the shadow, and baba yaga
51:49 Sacrifice, suicide, leaving the earth & emerging out of the dark
56:19 Importance of community
58:19 Amanita as winter solstice medicine/ Carissa's first amanita journey
1:03:28 Closing
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Carissa Ervine
@mistressofthewild
Podcast: Cosmic Crossroads
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