Mysticism is not an esoteric practice.
It's akin to the moon influencing the ocean's tides. It sprouts from a tiny redwood seed that bores a giant with the passing of time. It's tucked inside the mycelial network under our feet. It's in the dance of death that turns into soil to provide new life.
Mysticism is receptiveness. It's navigating our inner catacombs while using our environment as a map. There is an interconnection to everything, even our own subjective understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. And there is a lot of information we can read through our bodies, our senses, our intuition.
Spirit Dirt explores everyday mysticism through an ecological lens. We do this by creating one of the most well-known tools of mysticism throughout history: we make books.
printed books
Books are one of the most well-known tools of mysticism throughout history for a reason. They are a repository of knowledge packed into something we can hold and explore on our own personal timeline. They share insights and trace threads. They translate the ephemeral into accessible words, offering a way to strengthen our own communication and tie our experiences together.
Books also offer a unique mechanism: we can re-read them again and again, going deeper each time like a meditation practice. They facilitate inner work. When we grow as individuals, we can return to them and find newly relevant passages. They evolve alongside us at our own unique pace.
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hand-bound books
Sometimes books are more than an everyday object. They become art themselves, so full of meaning that their very structure needs to reflect their importance.
Spirit Dirt offers limited edition hand-bound blank journals that encourage you to write your own story. Each one is cut, sewn, stamped, and bound in our studio with the highest respect for materials and craft. They harken to the days when books were sacred containers, an alchemical collaboration between the human hand and the plants who made the paper.
As a little sneak peek: we're also working on hand binding existing texts. More on this later in the year!
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Bad Plant Club
Somewhere in your education, you were taught what a plant was. You learned that they are sessile beings rooted to the ground, making their own food through photosynthesis and reproducing through seed.
But what if this was a limiting view of plants?
Outliers to these criteria are everywhere around us, pushing the boundaries of how we understand plants' capabilities. These rebels happen to be our favorites.
We've rounded up twelve inspiring examples of plants refusing to fit into human-assigned norms. Bad plants, if you will. And we've started a little club together for 2026 - with official postcards.
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Poison Garden Anthology
There's so much to learn from all facets of our environment - even in the beings that intimidate us.
Powerful plants were once respected by humans and immortalized in art and story. But now, the attention given to them is negative or fearful. Poison offers some of the richest lessons in all of ecology. Not only are poisonous beings a memento mori, but they offer essential perspectives on boundaries, subtleties, and radical acceptance.
We publish an anthology to explore the presence and myth of these plants throughout history and into present day. We collaborate with writers, professors, burlesque dancers, comic artists, and beyond to explore these taboo plants and remediate their reputation.
learn about the project
Keep in touch to get first dibs on new books, call for entries in the Poison Garden, and monthly animistic essays through Spirit Dirt's Substack.