The Sacred Should Not Be Forbidden
Something has been pulling at you. Maybe it is depression, anxiety, or grief that medicine and therapy have not reached. Maybe it is the longing to be more alive. Maybe it is the persistent suspicion that the Sacred is real and that you can meet it.
Right now, in churches and living rooms and medical centers across America, ordinary people are gathering, eating mushrooms, and coming home changed. Researchers at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and dozens of other institutions document these as among the most spiritually significant experiences in participants' lives, ranking alongside the birth of a child, the death of a parent, and a wedding day.
Humans have met God through sacred mushrooms for thousands of years. We are the first culture to forget. Today, we live in a country founded on religious freedom that can prosecute ministers for what scientists in white coats are legally permitted to do.
Matt Zemon writes as a scholar and a psychedelic church leader who bridges the clinical lab and the candlelit ceremony. Weaving his own encounters with the Sacred into the history of how this practice was driven underground, he reveals a reformation now underway. Ordinary Mystics is the story of what people are finding and how to do this work with care.
The Sacred is your birthright. Remember.
