Welcome to Little Mushroom Speaks!
Many of you kmow me through my work as a massage therapist, but I'm writing to you today from the Amazon rainforest in Northwest Brazil, in the state of Amazonas. The story of how I arrived here, along with many other writings and heart-sharings will be the subject of this new newsletter, entitled “Little Mushroom Speaks.” I warmly invite you to receive these gifts from my heart, and if you wish to support my writing you can choose to subscribe. Both paid and free subscriptions receive the same content. If you don't wish to receive these emails you can unsubscribe at any time. I respect your inbox and send updates anywhere from twice monthly to once weekly.
Why “Little Mushroom Speaks?”
Little Mushroom is a spiritual nickname that people started calling me after I began a deep study and relationship with mushrooms of all kinds, especially sacred psilocybin mushrooms. Little Mushroom is the part of me that can communicate with the fungal kingdom, which connects many life forms through the mycelial web. I am not the only one who is bringing these messages forward in this time, but like the fruiting bodies of the mycelium, each one of us is unique and is meant to bring our gifts forward for the good of the whole.
It has been years since I have shared my writing — something that used to be a natural part of the expression of my soul. When I was 18, I wrote and published a blog that documented my experiences as I was traveling through Central America on my gap year after high school. Later, I had a blog called Words for Love where I shared expressions of the divine heart that lives inside me, calling out through words, prayers, and writings about the Oneness of all life. Then, for some reason, it stopped.
Many times I felt a desire to express myself, but felt that I wasn’t in the right space to do so. Something else always took precedence, and since I don’t believe it can be forced, I didn’t force it. I just let it go, day after day, week after week, until years went by and I left my heart neglected and unexpressed. I don’t recommend this to anyone, because it makes a person feel numb, as if everything has a flatness to it. Life loses its color, the deep meaning that can only be felt by the heart. It must be felt, digested, and expressed back in the unique way that only we can express.
Today, I take that expression back. Little Mushroom Speaks is now live, blooming like a flush of mushrooms and ready to spread spores of peace and unity!
This newsletter will contain writings on whatever subject my heart is desiring to express. Some will be personal, like this one. Some will be direct transmissions from the voice of the sacred mushrooms, who desire to help usher humanity forward into the experience of unity with all of life. Some posts will be poetic, some will include research and findings from the world of healing and psychedelics. Some will be excerpts and stories from my experiences as a longtime practitioner in the Santo Daime ayahuasca tradition. No matter the subject, all of it will be centered around living a Sacred Life, in relationship with the divine that lives in All.
This is who I am, and why I’m here on Earth — to learn how to embody this truth in my own life and by doing so to show a way for others who desire to do the same. In truth, it’s what we are all here to do — to be ourselves completely and fully, standing as a majority of one without the need for external support or validation, perfect in our uniqueness and radiant in our expression of the divine which lives in all.
Will you join me in becoming the powerful being that you are?
Love,
Little Mushroom 🍄