It's time to step out now into Cosmos, into Mythos, into Psyche. Oh, you know. In poison there is physic. Shakespeare said that. Our way is the way of poisons. Mercury, the poisonous changeling. Some plants like to lap you up, dog-like.

Others hit you like a mallet.

Once they get in you, they've got you.

From then on, the plant poison is part of you.

Our way is the way of poison. If you want sacredness, highly evolved

consciousness, spiritual magnificence, holiness, weakness, beauty, truth.

Good.

Aspiration is halfway there, but our way is the way of poison, the path of sulfur.

Everything is poison. Nothing is poison.

Paraelsa said that.

The old doctors were called poisoners.

They were the lucky ones. Still today, we will say to someone,

good luck. Your luck is your power. Your luck is your poison.

A bit about the poison path from Dale Pendle,

a man who we talk a lot about in this podcast.

Pharmacopia, the trilogy, my favorite series of books I still think so.

To date, I highly recommend reading Dale Pendle.

So welcome to another podcast, this one with my friend Catherine Soli.

She is on the poison path.

She teaches us about the importance of these plants

and how they can help us to work with our traumas

and work with spirits, and it's just a fascinating conversation I think that many of you are going to enjoy.

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