Destiny: Colby Michael, The Poison Path Oracle

Destiny: Colby Michael, The Poison Path Oracle

From Earth Ancients by Cliff Dunning

June 10, 2026 · 1h 23m

About this episode

Colby Michael discusses the use of poisonous plants in divination and spiritual communication.

• Shows how plants can help us communicate with the spirit world, the dead, and the divine for advice, insight, and direct answers to questions • Explains how to work with specific plant spirits, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric, for divination and trancework • Shares exercises for plant spirit journeying and how to incorporate plant spirit work into dream work, scrying, and runes Poison plants have been used by oracles, seers, and shamans to reach out to the spirit world for insight and guidance since antiquity. In this practical guide, Coby Michael demonstrates how the timeless wisdom of the poison path benefits modern practitioners of divination. Michael explores the divinatory ritual use of baneful plants and fungi, profiling important poisonous plant emissaries that appear throughout history, such as the nightshade family, foxglove, and fly agaric. He shows how these entheogenic plants can help us access altered states of consciousness to communicate with the dead and the divine and how plant spirit medicine can be combined with trancework for profound results. Michael also links the poison path to other divinatory methods, including dream work…

People in this episode

Host: Cliff Dunning

Guest: Colby Michael

Topics covered

  • plant spirit communication
  • divination
  • trancework
  • poison plants
  • spiritual guidance

Keywords

  • poison path
  • plant spirits
  • divination
  • trancework
  • spirit world

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Earth Ancients

Books & works: nightshade family, foxglove, fly agaric

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