Peacock Medicine
Peacocks, mesmerizing creatures, possess a remarkable ability to gracefully consume even the most toxic plants and snakes, leaving no trace of harm…
What to Expect (Original Version)
What to expect when you eat one of our Nightshade Truffles. I recommend starting by slowly and thoughtfully eating just half of a truffle. Within fifteen minutes…
Rethinking Age
The idea that people in their fifties and sixties are ‘old’ I am finally realizing must be the construct of younger people. I’m going to turn 56 the day after Christmas and I do not feel old at all. I may not feel old, but I do appreciate the wisdom that is inherent with being on the earth this many years.
~Wild Swan ~ Taking Flight ~Why be the feather when you can be the swan~
The other day I saw a wild swan for the first time since I moved back to the midwest. It was a swan couple and I had forgotten just how large and magnificent they get. The profoundness of seeing them at that moment was not lost on me for just moments before I had just received an amazing insight after an over twenty-year spiritual study of mine came full circle and revealed itself in such simplified clarity that it was like a complete revelation to me and all of my work.
Comfortably Numb?
Alcohol and/or cannabis in moderation shouldn't obscure the truffle experience but if used…
Grief & Trauma
Another kind of work you can do with these truffles is helping yourself through extremely painful times, grief, loss, and horrors from your past, etc., that you can't let go of and/or you're having a hard time moving beyond.
Being Receptive to the Lessons
There are people we meet on our paths that, regardless of what they call themselves, we later realize they were our teachers. We end up learning things from them that forever shaped our walks.
Restoring Ancient Memories
For me, it’s more that these plants are one of the best facilitators out there to help us achieve the paradigm shifts needed to free ourselves from our learned outlooks on things such as education, teaching, academia, learning, higher consciousness, etc. Once we are free of them, we can start seeing how much that old thinking limited us….
Release to Receive
We are like the plant spirits’ children and they will develop unique and powerful relationships with each one of us as individuals. Each one of us may know sides of a plant spirit that someone else may never see because of that unique and personal connection with the plant spirit we each can have.
Expansion
I’ve always believed that unexpected good fortune can happen at any moment
I was sharing with a new friend how when Emporium Black was just a little over half a year old I took a huge risk and quit my full time job and gave up almost everything to relocate and pursue a once in a lifetime opportunity which seemed perfectly in tune with my path and Emporium Black.
This is my truth (Part Two)
Our Elders Who Guide Us. Likewise, in later dreams it kept coming. The plants help us with shadow work by helping us see how to undo our shadows and how to break free of them. I know this to be true. They are not some stoic tool only to see our ugliest truths and then we have to uncomfortably chew on those truths for days while we struggle to find our way free of them. We need to make sure we are not blocking the healing because…
Neurodivergent Medicine
I have a son who is 12. His childhood sleep was plagued with nightmares as I hear is common with many kids (and maybe adults) who like he, are neurodivergent. I introduced the idea of lucid dreaming to him when he was very young in the hopes that he could learn to recognize the nightmares were only dreams and then make himself wake up to get out of them. He took to lucid dreaming like a fish in water.
Kathryn Solie Interviews Seumas (Audio)
Kathryn Solie of Persephone’s Path interviewed Seamus about his journey to creating the truffles (audio). They discuss his time working with the Native American Church, living on a reservation, and how this inspired his vision for the truffles. He explains how his relationship with the plants has developed and how their influence guides the creation of each truffle.
A Great Way to Help Others
Academia suggests a hierarchy where people become advanced in particular fields of study, and while in academia I guess it is empirically true and measurable, to me there is an oddness that we so often seem to use the same measures on our own spiritual paths.
They Teach Us How to Level Up
A conversation that I recently had with regular customer T.G.
T.G.: This was by far the most enlightening (experience I’ve had with the truffles so far). Ascension puts it mildly.
The Sound of Silence
An easy and hopefully useful tip for emptying your mind to work with the plants in my nightshade truffles is to close your eyes and every time you catch yourself thinking a thought, quietly say, “shhhhhh” until it melts away.
Breakfast of Champions
It may not occur to people to eat a nightshade truffle first thing in the morning, but in fact, one of my favorite times to eat one is after a cup of coffee and maybe a light breakfast.
This is My Truth~ Dreaming of Sacred Plants
I had numerous dreams about these plants last night and they were all about the same theme. It was a theme I was supposed to remember and share.