The Poison Path Oracle: Plant Allies for Divination, Spirit Communication, and Trance States

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

Poison plants have been used by oracles, seers, and shamans to reach out to the spirit world for insight and guidance since antiquity. In this practical guide, Coby Michael demonstrates how the timeless wisdom of the poison path benefits modern practitioners of divination.

Michael explores the divinatory ritual use of baneful plants and fungi, profiling important poisonous plant emissaries that appear throughout history, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric. He shows how these entheogenic plants can help us access altered states of consciousness to communicate with the dead and the divine and how plant spirit medicine can be combined with trancework for profound results.

Michael also links the poison path to other divinatory methods, including dream work, scrying, cartomancy, and runes. He shares exercises for underworld journeying as well as specific plant formulas and practices for meditation, channeling, ceremony, and connecting directly with plant allies, showing how to safely and effectively incorporate poison plants into your divination practice for better guidance and a stronger connection to the spirit world.

Coby Michael is an occult herbalist and magical practitioner who teaches about 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.