Discover an ancient way to meet the Sacred.
Something has been pulling at you. Maybe it started as grief, or a weight that therapy and prescriptions couldn't reach. Maybe it's quieter, a low hum of something missing. Or perhaps you've reached the stage of life you spent decades working toward, only to wonder what comes next.
Right now, across America, ordinary people are gathering in living rooms, churches, and clinics, eating sacred mushrooms, and coming home changed. Researchers at Johns Hopkins, NYU, and a growing number of other institutions have documented these as among the most spiritually significant experiences of participants' lives, ranking them alongside the birth of a child or the death of a parent.
Humans have met the Divine through sacred plants and mushrooms for millennia, yet modern America drove this history underground. Today a minister may face prosecution for offering the same sacrament a scientist in a white coat legally administers in a laboratory.
Writing as a scholar who serves an entheogenic church, Matt Zemon bridges the clinical lab and the candlelit ceremony. Ordinary Mystics weaves his own encounters with the Sacred together with a rare look inside the faith communities practicing today, following what people find when they meet the Divine directly.
If you have ever sensed there is more to spiritual life than belief alone, this book is an invitation to come and see.
