Mushrooms & Monks: Heroic Dose vs. Holy Ghost

Part One: Ego Death and picking up the cross

Christian monks and psychedelic seekers share the belief that our perception is limited and that there is more to reality than what we see. The seeker utilizes plant medicines as a means of divine encounter. The monk believes that a life of asceticism, characterized by silence, solitude, prayer, fasting, contemplation, and night vigils, can lead to a de…