P. D. Newman

Tripping the Trail of Ghosts (eBook, ePUB)

Psychedelics and the Afterlife Journey in Native American Mound Cultures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Examines the Path of Souls or Trail of Ghosts, a Native American model for the after-death journey • Demonstrates how psychoactive plants were used to evoke the liminal state between life and death in initiatory rites and spirit journeys • Explores the symbology of the large earthwork mounds erected by the Indigenous people of the Mississippi Valley and how they connect to the Path of Souls The use of hallucinogenic substances like peyote and desert tobacco has long played a significant role in the spiritual practices and traditions of Native Americans. While the majority of those practices are well documented, the relationship between entheogens and Native Americans of the Southeast has gone largely unexplored. Examining the role of psychoactive plants in afterlife traditions, sacred rituals, and spirit journeying by shamans of the Mississippian mound cultures, P. D. Newman explores in depth the Native American death journey known as the "Trail of Ghosts" or "Path of Souls." He demonstrates how practices such as fasting and trancework when used with psychedelic plants like jimsonweed, black nightshade, morning glory, and amanita and psilocybin mushrooms could evoke the liminal state between life and death in initiatory rites and spirit journeys for shamans and chiefs. He explores the earthwork and platform mounds built by Indigenous cultures of the Mississippi Valley, showing how they quite likely served as early models for the Path of Souls. He also explores similarities between the Ghost Trail afterlife journey and the well-known Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888500422
• Artikelnr.: 72242144

Autorenporträt

P. D. Newman has been immersed in the study and practice of alchemy, hermetism, and theurgy for more than two decades. A member of both the Masonic Fraternity and the Society of Rosicrucians, he lectures internationally and has published articles in many esoteric journals, including The Scottish Rite Journal, Knights Templar Magazine, and Ad Lucem. He is the author of Angels in Vermilion: The Philosophers' Stone from Dee to DMT and Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry. He lives in Tupelo, Mississippi, with his son, Bacchus, and his wife, Rebecca.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Christine VanPool
PREFACE
Finding the Path of Souls
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Meet the MIIS-sissippians
ONE
Native American Intoxicants
TWO
A Cavern of Sacred Visions
THREE
A Finger Pointing at the Cahokia Moon
FOUR
A Lodge of Spirits at Spiro
FIVE
Lost Marbles at Etowah
SIX
The Necropolis of Moundville
SEVEN
Magic Plants and Shamanism in the MIIS
EIGHT
The Missihuasca Hypothesis
Closing Remarks
APPENDIX
The Legend of Miskwedo
by Keewaydinoquay Pakawakuk Peschel
Notes
Bibliography
Index