Trapping the Trail of Ghosts

This book is about psychedelics and the afterlife journey in Native American mound cultures in the Mississippi area. It examines the role of psychoactive plants in afterlife traditions, sacred rituals, and spirit journeying by shamans using specific plants that can evoke the liminal state between life and death in initiatory rights. This is called ‘The Path of Souls’ – enabling travel into the spirit world to gain a better understanding of afterlife journeys. The book combines anthropological scholarship with personal experience, covering all aspects of the traditions, and will be of particular interest to students of psychedelics.