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Bibliographic information
| Title | Mushroom Wisdom: How Shaman Cultivate Spiritual Consciousness |
| Author | Martin W. Ball, Ph.D. | | Publisher | Ronin Publishing, Inc |
| Publication Date | 2006 |
| Subject | Spirituality/Religion/New Age |
| Pages | 194 |
An exploration into the techniques of shamanic mysticism, the author addresses how mushrooms can lead the spiritual seeker to profound states of self-awareness and radical understanding of the nature of the self, reality, and the sacred. Covers looking into the spiritual mirror to uncover an authentic sense of self, developing “witness” consciousness to overcome self-limiting concepts and judgments, the importance of removing obstacles of ego and self-induced suffering with the goal of creating a clean heart to allow for the rich spiritual experience of “spirit flow.” The work also address such areas as the creation and use of ritual, use of sacred objects, the importance of sound and silence, and both the intimately personal and universally transcendent nature of symbols and archetypes as they relate to spiritual discovery and practice.
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Martin W. Ball, Ph.D. ---
Martin W. Ball holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies, with an emphasis on Native American religions, from UCSB. He has conducted fieldwork at the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico and has published several articles related to his work with Mescalero Apache medicine people. As a scholar of religion, Martin has focused on sacred geography, ritual, indigenous healing methods, shamanism, ethnobotany, and the spiritual use of entheogens, as well as comparative mysticism and philosophy of religion and the phenomenology of spiritual experience. Martin underwent a profound shamanic initiation with psilocybin mushrooms in 1995, and has been exploring the repercussions and lessons of this event in his own personal spiritual practice since then.
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