Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom

James W. Jesso

Jun 2013 · SoulsLantern Publishing

About this ebook

 Decomposing The Shadow presents a psychological model for the experience of the magic psilocybin mushroom. It explores what the experience of this psychedelic medicine exposes to us about the nature of mind, emotion, society, psychospiritual maturity, and reality itself. This book is about facing the darkness within each of us, developing the courage of emotional honesty, and investigating how the unacknowledged aspects of self, the shadow, can make the grounds of personal growth fertile again. The psilocybin mushroom offers us the opportunity to experience life from a point of amplified emotional, psychological, and spiritual significance. It unlocks a perspective of self and other that is naturally occurring within us, but culturally suppressed to the point of nearly complete omission. When we begin to navigate the vastly novel experiences this substance can provide us, we further enable its potential for not only exposing, but healing the unconscious narratives that hold us back from being our fullest, most courageous, most honest self.

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About the author

 James W. Jesso is a Canadian author and public educator who is dedicated to helping to engender regenerative, accessible, and public discourse on socially outcast and taboo subjects.

He has authored numerous articles, essays, and videos, done radio, podcast, and print interviews, and toured across the world giving lectures and facilitating public discussions on a variety of subjects. Jesso has given over 40 public presentations since the start of 2013. Most recently, he has taught in Peru on plant-based psychotherapy while touring the jungle, studying and exploring the use of Ayahuasca as a spiritual tool. 

He has published two books, Decomposing The Shadow: Lessons From The Psilocybin Mushroom (2013) and Soundscapes & Psychedelics (2014). His third book, The True Light Of Darkness, is a deep and vulnerable look into the entheogenic experiences that brought him out of depression and into his creative passions. It is scheduled for release in the summer of 2015. 

Check out more of Jesso’s stuff  through www.jameswjesso.com