‎"People who ingest the wild do something civilized people never do, they take inside themselves the wildness of the world. In that moment something unique happens, some invisible thing enters inside them. And when that happens everything changes. They become aware that there are intelligences in this world far older than the human and that the human and the older intelligences of the world are intended to make contact. Earth ecstatics, for millennia, have recognized that eating the wild is one of the primary means of soul shaping, of traveling the ecstatic path. Plants have long been primary teachers for those who travel deep into the heart of the world, for those who seek the soul teaching that only the wild can bring."

Stephen Harrod Buhner