The Poison Path is the name given to a nameless tradition and a pathless path - few are known to traverse it in it's entirety; fewer still to tell the tale. The poet Dale Pendell describes it as such -
The Methodology in which the Doctor takes the Medicine.
As indicative of the type, Gary Snyder goes on to classify the contents within this collection as-
[...] books about danger: dangerous knowledge, even more dangerous ignorance
The Collection deals with Guerilla Ontology, Physics, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Poetry, Animism, Anarchism, Critical Theory, Ethnopharmacology, Chemistry, Ethnobotany, Biology, & more...
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Ground-State Training
Poetic Praxis
Guerilla Ontology
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Ground-State Training
27 items | Last modified January 20, 2026Furcation of the Mother list : The Poison Path Library Collection
Ground-State Training is calibration with the Ground, or the *Un-Ground*; Crucial to distinguish the signal from the noise during the various phases of amplification. These are methods, and : "The method is the tools and techniques used by an individual to ascertain a certain truth - as the microscope and it's observations and implications are the method of the scientist; so too do the mystics, and the poets have methods."
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The Poison Path library Explorations
79 items | Last modified July 25, 2025Books referencing Shamanism, Anarchism, Religion, Science and Magick -- as part of the curriculum in traveling down the Poison Path
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