Decomposing the shadow : lessons from the psilocybin mushroom / James W. Jesso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jesso, James W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mushrooms--Therapeutic use.

Mushrooms.

Spiritual healing.

Medicinal plants.

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Medicine.

Healing--Religious aspects.

Healing.

Physical Description:

xii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Canada : SoulsLantern Publishing, [2013]

Summary:

"Decomposing The Shadow presents a psychological model for the experience of the magic psilocybin mushroom. It explores what the experience of this psychedelic medicine exposes to us about the nature of mind, emotion, society, psychospiritual maturity, and reality itself. This book is about facing the darkness within each of us, developing the courage of emotional honesty, and investigating how the unacknowledged aspects of self, the shadow, can make the grounds of personal growth fertile again. The psilocybin mushroom offers us the opportunity to experience life from a point of amplified emotional, psychological, and spiritual significance. It unlocks a perspective of self and other that is naturally occurring within us, but culturally suppressed to the point of nearly complete omission. When we begin to navigate the vastly novel experiences this substance can provide us, we further enable its potential for not only exposing, but healing the unconscious narratives that hold us back from being our fullest, most courageous, most honest self."--provided by Amazon.

Notes:

Place and date of manufacture taken from end of work and may differ between printings.

Work self-published by author using SoulsLantern Publishing and CreateSpace.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780991943500

0991943503

OCLC:

957229071