The Poison Path Oracle

A handbook for working with poisonous plants for enhanced psychic abilities and spirit guidance

• Shows how plants can help us communicate with the spirit world, the dead, and the divine for advice, insight, and direct answers to questions

• Explains how to work with specific plant spirits, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric, for divination and trancework • Shares exercises for plant spirit journeying and how to incorporate plant spirit work into dream work, scrying, and runes In this practical guide, Coby Michael explores how to incorporate the plants of the poison path into your divination practice to enhance your psychic abilities and develop strong allies in the spiritual realms. Michael looks at divination in ancient cultures, exploring how baneful plants and fungi were used ritually by oracles, seers, and shamans to reach out to the spirit world for advice and insight. Focusing on the most important and recurring poisonous plant spirits that appear throughout history, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric, the author shows how these entheogenic plants can help us access altered states of consciousness to communicate with spirits, the dead, and the divine. He explains techniques to connect directly with plants as spiritual allies and how plant spirit medicine can be combined with trancework for profound results. The author explores how to incorporate plant spirit work into other divinatory methods, including dream work, scrying, cartomancy, and runes. He shares exercises for plant spirit journeying as well as specific plant formulas and practices for meditation, ceremony, and spirit work. He also explains how to create tools for water gazing, mirror scrying, and channeling spirits. Revealing plants as powerful partners for oracular practice, this book shows how to safely and effectively incorporate poison plants into your divination practice for better guidance, enhanced abilities, and a stronger connection to the spirit world.

Author Biography

Coby Michael is an occult herbalist and magical practitioner who teaches the ritual use of poisonous and psychoactive plants. The author of The Poison Path Herbal and The Poison Path Grimoire, he owns and operates The Poisoner’s Apothecary, an online shop and educational resource. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.