Ash Ritter - Merry Mushroom: Ethnomycology of Amanita muscaria

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Merry Mushroom: Ethnomycology of Amanita muscaria

Throughout eras of great societal shift, Amanita muscaria has remained in the hearts and minds of the people in an unending web of continuity, albeit with varied connotations. By what authority did this simultaneously friendly emoji and feared decomposer get it's modern cultural thumbprint? How can this misunderstood toadstool enmesh with todays multifaceted, myco-curious world? What started out as a purely academic research based endeavour became, over several years, a personal quest to reconcile with my own entheogenic lineage. To my delight, I found a phenomenon beneath our feet with profound historical & medicinal implications. Indeed, as Amanita muscaria gains a foothold in the minds of curious entheogen enthusiasts, profit-driven “legal-high” peddlers of the west, and the allopathic medical industry alike, we face the complexity of an unregulated entity that has been almost severed from a rich global folk-knowledge, with minimal clinical research to boot.

Ash Ritter is an ethnobotanist, practicing herbalist, writer, and educator with over 20 years of study in clinical, traditional, academic, and directly relational terrains. She is a devotee of curiosity, and especially savors the study of history through the woven threads of fungi, people, and plants. One-on-one longterm apprenticeships are the cornerstone of her training, with a focus on druid herbalism, clinical botanical medicine, California-Mexican curanderismo, and MacGuyver-style urban & wilderness first aid. Her college degree thesis focused on the history of plant & fungi in rights of passage, and altered states as evolutionary technology.

Ash counsels and creates in her private practice, Black Sage Botanicals, to empower and engage direct relationships with & as the living world. She joyfully offers public & private classes and in-depth consultation services.

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