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“TEONANACATL”….(TEO)….The Sacred Mushrooms
ISSN 1543-1681
Copyright 2009
"TEONANACATL"
The International Journal of Psychoactive Mushrooms
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Manton Hirst, AmatholeMuseum; Humanities, South Africa,
Curator of Anthropology
John Allen, MushroomJohn
Dr. Karl Buchanan
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Pictorial Illustrations, SH
Stephen L. Peele, Chief Editor
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TEO Journal Subscriptions and other Journal Information..........................01
Cannabis compound can help cells..............................................................02
Mail Call......................................................................................................02
Request for an interview .......................................................................02
Magic Mushrooms.....Risks concerning the health of the individual....03
Are Mushroom Laws Too Harsh???......................................................03
"The Magic PSTMP Compound"..........................................................04
Psilocybin Mushrooms for CA..............................................................04
To grow the Amanita Muscaria.............................................................05
Pluteus salicinus Contains Psilocybin and Psilocin.....................................05
To Wear Gloves or Not To Wear Gloves....................................................07
Tassili Catastrophe, Let sleeping giants......................................................08
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Neurones which have been labelled with a fluorescent marker.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cannabis has been used recreationally and for medicinal purposes for centuries, yet its 60 plus active components are only partly understood. Now scientists have discovered how a compound in cannabis can help cells to function in our bodies, and aid recovery after a damaging event. In a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers report on their studies into cannabidiol - a naturally occurring molecule found in cannabis. Also known as CBD, it is not the constituent that gives the high - that compound is called tetrahydrocannabinol or THC - and so may be more acceptable as a drug treatment. Both compounds are currently used in a pharmaceutical medicine to help patients relieve pain and other symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Now researchers have discovered how CBD actually works within brain cells. By interacting with mitochondria - which are the power generators of all cells - it can help maintain normal levels of calcium allowing cells to function properly and providing a greater resistance to damage. Disturbance of calcium levels has long been associated with a number of brain disorders. So the finding could have implications for the development of new treatments for disorders related to malfunctioning mitochondria.
Dr Bettina Platt, from the University's School of Medical Sciences, said: "Scientists have known for a long time that cannabidiol can help with pain relief but we never really knew how it worked."However we have discovered what it actually does at the cellular level.
"We are hoping that our findings can instruct the development of cannabidiol based treatments for disorders related to mitochondrial dysfunction such as Parkinson's disease or Huntington's disease."Nevertheless, Dr Platt warned that smoking cannabis would not necessarily have the same effect."There are different strains of cannabis out there and many no longer contain cannabidiol. In fact, these have been deliberately bred out to enhance the THC content," she said.
"As a result, smoking cannabis would not necessarily have the same beneficial effect, and could even exacerbate neuronal damage."Provided by University of Aberdeen
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Subj: request for an interview
Date:3/15/2009
From:cgibson
To:FloridaMycology@cs.com
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My name is Christopher Alan Gibson and I’m a college student at JohnsonCounty Community College. Back in the late 1990's I studied mycology when I first spoke with you. In my anthropology class, world cultures, I’m involved in a group presentation on the topic of "drugs: the worldwide difference in social (medicinal and recreational uses) use and social opinion" your opinion on any aspects of our topic would be greatly respected and appreciated. If I could conduct a telephone interview at a time of your convenience, I would be most grateful. Please email me, thank you.
cgibson.........here are some of my feelings I have published in the past, dealing with mushrooms. You can call to get additional info, but I think the things I send, say it all.
Magic Mushrooms.....Risks concerning the health of the individual:
….Physical dependence does not occur with mushrooms.
Level of psychological dependence:
….It depends on which definition of dependence of the mind is used.If this is the same as an addiction, then there is no risk.However, there are users, who like the experience in such a way, that they would like to do it again, in such a case you could say there is a very low psychological dependence.
Level of the risk of acute toxicity:
….Every now and then there are incidents where medical assistance is required.This is usually caused by anxiety and panic attacks. The use of mushrooms cannot always be
held as the only cause………(Psilocybin is the least toxic of all the Psychoactives)#14 TEOCopyrighted Material
When it comes to mushrooms, do any of the laws make sense? People are free to join the Army, be a policeman, skydive, Bull Fight, base jump, ski in avalanche-prone mountains, drive race cars at over 200 mph, mountain climb, get in the ring with Mike Tyson, hang glide, drive an automobile (they say this is the most dangerous thing a person does every day), smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, and go to the Space Station. Do these activities seem more dangerous than eating a mushroom? Do you know how many people died last year from doing these types of things? Just smoking and drinking killed well over one-half million! Do you know how many people died last year from eating a magic mushroom? Not one person. That's because Psilocybin is the least toxic of all the known Psychoactives.Pot, even nicotine and caffeine, are more lethal.This information on all the LD/50 claims made here can be found in The Merck Index. Responsible adults should not be placed in jails and prisons for such a safe activity. If mushroom laws are to exist, they must be fair! They should be as our Alcohol Laws are (even though mushrooms are no way near the problems of alcohol). No driving. No minors. No sales to minors. Legal "Small Grows" like making your own wine.
I'm telling you that the local whiskey store down the street in your area, is responsible for much more harm to society than any mushroom will ever be.And yet, this goes on without any attention.I have always thought that any laws written on mushrooms cannot
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exist.For a plant to be illegal, the law requires that it be named illegal.Like Pot, it is named.....like Opium Poppy, it is named.No mushroom (Federal) has ever been named.
The Florida State Supreme Court stated "It would be unconstitutional to name a mushroom because the normal individual cannot understand the law."Contact FloridaMycology@cs.com and join "THE MUSHROOM LOBBY"………….The only organization capable of protecting your "Mushroom Freedoms".Taken from:
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Nearly 20 years ago a mushroom compound was discovered that halted the aging process within living cells. It was tested in over 100 different insects at the University of Arizona.....every one showed positive results! That's every bug! Why did our U.S. Federal DEA and the Florida State HRS governments get so upset and stop this research? Why all the "hoopla" over a new bio-rationally designed insecticide?Was it because they did not want to kill more bugs? No. The impact of this discovery was far more paramount than just a new way to kill bugs. And it was from a Psilocybe Mushroom! Well, what would that have to do with anything?
I already knew what this compound was doing from many other tests. I had talked to Dr. Joe at Arizona about it and he really wanted to look it over. So, I just sent him a sample to test. All he did was confirming what we already knew...........
"The Magic PSTMP Compound"
The Compound that halted the aging process within living cells……To read the rest of this article, go to our website and click "Mushroom Research Papers", scroll on down until you come to it.
Thank You, for your interest in FMRC! Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
Date:2/6/2009
From:cindysh
To:FloridaMycology@cs.com
If I wanted to get some psilocybin mushrooms for research in California, would it be possible?
cindysh .....Your email gave me my first laugh today.CA, back in the 80's, was the first state to make even just the possession of these type spores illegal.Always thought this was really stupid because many of these very same type mushrooms grow right there in CA!Liberty Caps even grow by the thousands right there on the ground around its House of Representatives.They are the very ones who started the Bill to outlaw these spores......while they have thousands growing right there.Too bad no one arrested all of them, not only for all those spores, but like they usually do, cultivation, possession, distribution, you know, all those other charges they tack on.Maybe right on down to "being ugly in public."
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FMRC does its best to obey all laws concerning mushrooms, so, we do not ship these types of items to CA. Perhaps make some hunting trips there, or one day come visit FL.
Thank You, for your interest in FMRC! Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
Subj: to grow the Amanita Muscaria
Date:3/7/2009
From:zorroel
To:FloridaMycology@cs.com
Dear Sir: I'm looking for information on techniques for cultivating the much beloved Amanita Muscaria--whether indoors or out. I have 20 young pine trees in a double row that might be ideal for propagation.I would be grateful for any information.
Thanks, Tom Allen
Tom.......I have published many articles dealing with this.The pine trees you speak of will be your best chance for success. Disperse a cut off, of a print of Amanita muscaria in a two liter Pepsi bottle or the like, of water.Shake for 5 minutes.Do this every day for 5 days.At this time, the spores will all be mixed in with the water and hold proper moisture.Go out 5 to 10 feet away from each tree.With a small digger, search around several inches down and locate the small roots of the pine tree.Once you learn what these roots look like, you will be able to move about and do your work at a good speed.
Find the tiny and smallest roots you can.Shake your bottle, and disperse a teaspoon of the water on this area.Cover it all back up.Do this 3 or 4 times around each tree.
This is no quick process. Depending on factors, 3 to 5 years will pass before the first fruits will appear.If trees are under ten years old, it may be 7 to 10 years before they are first seen.To obtain more information on the articles I have published, go to www.mushroomsfmrc.com and click "Catalog" off of the Main Menu.Scroll down until you come to the Back Issues of TMC.As you search through these, you will see said articles listed.You can order any of these Back Issues.All the Issues #01 through to #69 are available on CD-ROM "THE GOSPELOFMUSHROOMS".
We list this mushroom's spores under our Spore Bank.Hope this helps.slp/fmrc
Pluteus salicinus
Pluteus salicinus , has a blue, bruising reaction from being rubbed or mashed.It contains psilocybin and psilocin. The presence of a bluing reaction in mushrooms indicates the chance of the Mushroom containing said compounds.Some Boletes produce compounds like boletol.Boletol also will produce a bluing reaction, but has no psilocybin or psilocin.Footage of this boletol reaction are shown in FMRC's production "FRUITOFTHE GODS" DVD. The darkening reaction on the stems of some deadly Galerinas can be mistaken for a bluing reaction, just as the green gills of Lepiota morganii are mistaken to be a blue-tone.Always be certain of what mushroom you have, if you are going to eat it. Use as many identification points you can.
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The following is taken in part from "North American Mushrooms" by Orson Miller
I have worked with all kinds of mushrooms.....I made these laws to myself, that I never break when dealing with mushrooms that produce "Deadly Toxins."Many times, while working in the lab, I used DMSO (Dimethyl Sulfoxide).This compound has the unique property of quickly going right through your skin and into your system.Sort of instantly putting the taste of garlic in your mouth.The thing is, it also has the ability to pick up other compounds and bring them right along.It was for this reason, I many times wore gloves, and was always careful about washing my hands.Never new what I might pick up next with hands.It is here I became aware of something very important.I never paid attention to cuts or wounds on my hands, until the day DMSO hit a small scratch.This made me realize just how easy an opened place in your skin really allows entry of outside elements.Maybe handling Deadly Mushrooms with no gloves, is okay.I did it many times in my early days.I still will even today.But, I am always careful to look my hands over good for any scratches or cuts.I would not think that I could die even from having a scratch, but even a small amount of this type of toxin could bring about an allergic reaction.And, the degree of this could surely vary among different individuals.
If your hands look okay, there should not be any problems with handling deadly
mushrooms.I would still wash my hands afterward.If the skin of your hands is broken anywhere, I would use gloves, or something else to handle the mushroom.
More Important.........something that I did not see mentioned here.If you dry any Deadly Mushrooms, be aware of this.Depending on what stage, there may be dust created by these mushrooms.Never inhale any of this dust.Work outside and wear a mask if you do not have a hood to work under.
...........and yes, there are some of the world's leading mushroom experts here.I mean real experts.Too bad GZ didn't know this.Perhaps just changing a few words would have made all the difference.........like, after making all of the statements, "what are any thoughts on these?"And not to have made them look like facts.In any case, stick around GZ and you will learn the real facts.First one you should learn today..........never inhale the dust from dried Amanita phalloides.......slp/fmrc
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PS - Speaking of the "rah-rah's", did anyone notice that, "scientifically", the 2008 flu shot was only 2/3 right, but the 2009 flu shot was only 1/3 worth anything? I don't want to over criticize, because my only CDC friend mocked me for being in the ministry still while he gets "Home, car, family and money to do the things he likes" - and he was right and I cried - but all my pediatric patients remain alive (unlike theirs) and my "easy kill" patients are too and a bunch of theirs aren't. It's apples and oranges and I understand that also I suppose. Curious though that even with a lousier "shot" we have currently less National sickness and death than last year - but it isn't over yet so who can say? The rah-rahs and the priests? "But upon this we can agree - things aren't what they used to be."
Tassili Pediocracy:
“Cave Kids Rule!”
This article is necessarily a part of the “Tassili Medicine” series though this is all I’ve got about psilocybes and the pre-teen population; “Of course not! Are ya damaged?!” Even if I thought psilocybes were a last chance saloon to save the life of a child I believe I’d use “de-magifying” concomitants and even consider inducing drowsiness/light sleep for the duration. But that is why this article is necessarily part of the Tassili series because without cave children, there’d be no boneheads today. Fortunately I have never even had to consider such a situation, and though I won’t rule it out there are several steps to rule out along the way before we begin to entertain ideas that are such choices of “lesser evils”.
I am pretty sure there are still plenty of “Mushroom Experts” spouting years of superstition, old wives and their spook tales about children and mushrooms. None of these opinions seems to be offered by a physician and they have absolutely no real foundation in practical medical fact or biological chemistry. A situation where the speculation of someone wholly unqualified to even guess is taken (has been taken) as scientific and medical fact. Add to this that all the superstitions seem to be a simple situation of “paranoid parroting” – repeating what one has heard because it sounded authoritative and low risk. “nefrandi non grata” (nefrandi means that place where the sun don’t shine?)
We just had another “That baby was sick!” situation and so I thought I’d finally get around to inviting some of these people to spend their time demonstrating these things or perhaps just shut up, because mushrooms have done more than keep our pediatric patients alive or get them out of the flu quicker. A couple of examples in fact?
“Lakota Mushroom Eater – It’s just food…” First use age: 2.5 yrs
I first met Lakota fleeing the threat of seizure and enforced savagery. He had been playing around the house and fallen, his poor little hand finding the wood stove at that time of year when they are never cool. Taken to such a “big deal” hospital in Springfield (none the less!) it was the opinion of someone who makes a lot of money operating on children that Lakota just had to have a thigh-to-hand skin graft. Lakota’s parents didn’t like that idea and so they were informed that the hospital would just seize their child and surgically savage their baby anyway – legally. So, being just dumb hillbillies they left
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and came back home with little more than a almost horror story to tell. If you looked at his hand now, you would not believe his story because you cannot tell that anything ever but angel kisses happened to that hand, it has no blemish or scar. God and this kid both impressed me there in fact. But his mushroom eating began more like this – everyone else in the family was getting well while he was still suffering flu, his dad held a capsule in his hand mentally saying “It’s just food. It’s just food.” and Lakota has been a mushroom and wild food beneficiary ever since because he of course did get rapidly better, and connects these foods to not being sick. I mean no one has to tell him or hold his nose, he will come looking for it and tell you. He has seen two ways of having illness and chosen one he likes better. It’s such a blessing when they are adamant about something good.
“Charlie Breathes” (and plays football) First use Age: 6 yrs
Charlie was in and out of the other doctor’s office like a revolving door and had inhalers kept everywhere he went. His blessing was a mother who didn’t like that, she just didn’t know there was anything else to do. Now Charlie only really eats mushrooms when he is sick because the few weeks he ate them for his allergy and breathing problems apparently gave his body just enough adaptability opportunity that he outgrew the allergies that were the basis of his breathing problems. The boy who could hardly run and play jumps on the trampoline and plays football at school – one little thing in the way of everything else about him, but not anymore. Because I told his mom “No, drop those damned inhalers” and she found out in the case of her son that was exactly right.
Now, “Hunter 10 months”
I didn’t get to pick for Hunter, somebody else did. Somehow after years of seeing it with their eyes and holding it in their hands some people don’t feel they need to call us every time for everything. When the secular MD said “Oh it will have to run it’s course.” In seasons where pneumonia and flu related deaths are a risk in children, that kid’s friends said “No, I don’t think so” and since Susan had a bag of mushrooms with her, the only thing I was for was telling all about it and yet again, how great God’s things are when we appreciate them and handle them correctly. Child mortality exceeded national levels last flu season and so far there have been 4 direct deaths this year so I think they felt that “other guy” was a little callous about it. There are other cases and applications as well as a few rules, like the Simmons kids, sickle cell and leukemia but I’m just turning the light on here. (see below)
I must confess it does delight me – that they gain knowledge and confidence, that they can act “bravely” in love for each other and in that also do it well. We have had some effect on at least some of our people that God might approve of. (Heathens still won’t go to college though…heathens)
So the next time some misguided ghoul or profiteering pedi-monster stands up and starts spouting about the “cheeldren!” you at least can sit back and say “Well, not mine.” Because if they don’t have the condition or illness that renders them meat for morons then they are better off on two counts, and the ever belching ocean of “Dr. Spocks” see
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their waves “smashed to spumed and shattered graves” against the rocks of simple dietary defense. Because you have to protect your kid from some doctors these days it seems, lucrative and plentiful little ‘taters that they are. Personally, I’ve never offered any of them knife or needle. I as loathe to be invasive with them as they are to be rudely invaded upon and they like that I have found better ways to avoid it. That’s quality in medicine and health, not running your child through a chicken pot pie machine in the ugly effort to imitate and sell it, indeed force it, under threat of “child welfare”. (Barbarous!) I love their little kingdom, their blessed society - where doctors have to be polite and good too.
So you see, being a stupid tit on purpose has no rewards when it comes to parenting or protecting your little companion; acting like one so others will know “You are OK TOO!” can have a grim price. It’s no Tassili world out there anymore, so one has to be even more careful. (Indeed, I’m sure the real Tassili N’Ajer is much more dangerous now than when it was just wild carnivores and cave people...) One has to have a little impetus and fortitude to search these things out and remember that the motto in America has always been “Buyer Beware”, though that was said over two hundred years ago so how wary now? Also note how the desire for a second opinion in our country has been conveniently twisted to “Negligence!” – owing to all the financial beneficiaries.
The !child illness! and cancer center around here is called “Momma’s kitchen” and thank God for little things - and that they do so well when you feed them. Indeed, children seem to respond 2 or 3 times better to accurate biological medicine. They are so fresh and resilient – so naturally inclined. I’m blessed with parents who don’t expect me to do dreadful things to their kid so that they can feel better. So are the kids.
Now Charlie can throw the football, Lakota can tie a string to it and use it for some treehouse contraption, Hunter 10 months can behold it all and dream and I can put my feet back up and think “Well, at least that’s still right in the world.”
Best Wishes Always!
Yours in the “Natural State” ~
Dr. Karl Buchanan
Addendum / Children & Mushrooms
With regard to single use and combinations of Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum,Cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis), Turkey tail (Coreolus versicolor), Maitake (Grifola frondosa), Shittake (Lentenula edodes) and Cracked cap (Philenus rimosus)
Children typically respond very well to amounts that would be less adequate, pound for pound, in the adult. Concomitants are recommended to optimize therapeutic benefit and decrease any potential side effects. They aren’t necessary though and only about 50% of my peds use them with any regularity. The easiest for them? 1/3 doses of “Essiac” or any detox tea that has “kid herbs” and lacks adult ones – check health food store.
Vitamin C – Potentiating!
Incidences of epistaxis (nosebleed) from excessive vitamin c, a harmless but slightly alarming side effect
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avoided by decreasing the usual Vit C dose by half. Again – incidence of nosebleed or slight blood in urine are NOT a big deal and immediately resolve on removing Vit. C completely.
I never really considered extra vitamin C necessary but I have used it when they were really “worn out” with being sick and dehydrating – your call, but use caution and don’t panic.
Regarding therapy for sickle cell crisis prevention
This benefit will endure some, so if you are just preventing sickle cell misery one dose every other day should do fine. In fact, though I think a combination is better, “reishi” alone should provide this benefit adequately. If you want to add one to that, add cordyceps.
Prothrombin time – anyone eating reishi, wood ears and some of the other mushrooms will have increased clot time; again, don’t panic. The increase in prothrombin time (blood clotting) is not that significant EXCEPT in the already hemopheliac patient. Mushrooms though do not make the hemophelia worse, regular precautions with these folks still apply and they are used to them. They would laugh at your clotting concerns!
Human Children / 3-6 years 6-10 yrs11-15yrs
½ capsule or 10 drops up to 40lbs1 capsule or 2cc (ml) up to 90lbs2 capsules or 3cc(ml) up to 140lbs
Remember, it’s mostly by weight and severity of condition. Allergy relief doesn’t take as much as Anthrax!
Tassili Authenticity:
“God Did It Best; Gave It for Free to All Who Seek”
It’s not an unusual string of events that has led, over the decades, from a rural healers sacred shanty to the halls of the American Government. The pharmaceutical business is about finding out these things and exploiting them in any way possible. It does though seem unusual with this particular species and secondarily now even all neurotropically active plants and substances organic or synthetic. All plants, as gifts of God for the comfort, healing and joy of man don’t get this regard or attention, right up there with the “flowers of the field” (opium). Everyone can be curious about entheogens and some may have them but what is happening now and has been really is quite bizarre. This handful of people wanting total control and the power to create the reality around them.
Now, I am old enough to be used to rah-rah’s, rotters, the weak minded and their handlers but it never ceases to amaze me what goes on with Maria Sabina’s gift to Gordon Wasson and the current round of mostly clowns primarily involved in pigeonholing and profiteering it. Indeed, it’s as if greed and power tripping without tripping has hollowed out and obsessed not only some of our former “Counter Culture High Holies” but some of our intellectuals and vested protectors also. If it were “right” and “true” then how come those before left it where it was – in nature and those who were blessed to receive it commonly. I don’t know any Park Rangers who don’t know about mushrooms and I always thought that they, being so close to and having a regard for nature were probably experienced too; an ancient and respected simple human right.
I know there are lots of “baby brain, baby crib” people out there who don’t even think or have ethics or values of their own at all, you just put a pretty hypnotic tune on and they start swaying back and forth holding hands even if the words are “You’re a fool, worship me, pay me from your fam-i-ly” (“with a butt-crack-smell-attack-run your baby home…”)Are the “Merry Pranksters” now the “Shi**y Gangsters” too or have they managed to hold their own in the face of this “Mass
Delusion” that comes at a time when so much of our society has been “flourided” – as it were –
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down to the level of a dimwit in purple dinosaur clothes? (“Barney”. You can keep that “b-o-l-o-g-n-a” away from our kids. They aren’t kept for such…Teledummies.) The Founding Fathers warned of such things, yet go almost entirely unheeded.
But when it comes to this psilocybe thing with the “Pirates of the Oblivion” I seem to be very much outnumbered. C’est la vie? No. C’est la Poo and little else. Since I’m not getting paid to be a goofy stain, I retain something of what was once myself. Something of the “Boy who lived” left in me. But you know, I’m bored with the caricature of it and I was and belong on higher ground even if in the lowest seat. I am but a child among the truly human and free (or potent) that remain and even kind of an ugly step-one at that. The high souls though are kind and long suffering and I did pass the “Brain connected to spine and walnuts” test after all (Even the Owl will give ya that).
But I’ve ranted enough with little profit to thee. By now you are saying “Yes doc, you are always the last to see the blue & grey going brown” (yawn) or “What are you talking about! It’s, it’s “John’s Hopkins” for God’s sake you burnable heretic!” (the utterly stupid…but they could think if they would) But I close this part in attestation that it is neither I nor God nor Temple who is the deceiver or heretic and there is no more to say.
No, this article is about psilocybe medicine not psilocybe sickness and therefore let poor brother carry on. I do have a Tassili Tee-Hee warning to give but those who would hear it already know and those who don’t probably never will. (Always a “Starry Starry Night” hon…) So I guess let’s have some fun and play “Kreskin!” again and you can count up the chips (and cow chips) later and think for yourself. The Magisterium did after all dutifully inform me long ago that “I would reveal that which was not known” but also that “I was not written for approval” – at the time I thought they meant temple treasure and history, joy, the rightness of life and “good man things”. OK then I’ll try after this vein of things! Please find below a list of conditions which psilocybes and their concomitants address in varying degree and most rather handsomely so that when the dimwits and rah-rah’s finally exhaust “Good Friday & Psychological!” (what Yack!) and honk another p$ilocybe horn you will be able to see these things better and judge for yourself. Also, innocent people and fading patients don’t have to wait another decade or more for the right financial or politically correct opportunity – for their medical condition, “cognitive liberty” or evolution. Evolution like terminal disease does not wait at all and has no mind to what it mows down in it’s way. It has no political correctness nor recognizes such.
So here is old news from people’s history, faith, tradition and homework and some of them US, just not many anymore:
* indicates “with concomitants” and/or much more to say before just diving in – so you ugly little Tassili thieves don’t hurt more people in your “discoverie$!”, “experimentation$” or “re$earch”. Nota bene – this list is not at all exhaustive, just demonstrative, and there’s always more to know.
*Alzheimer’s – and a big whoa! On that ignorantly or alone but still
*Anaphylaxis, chronic - transient, limited (that means some allergies, sometimes permanent)
*Arthritis – osteo & rheumatoid + + +!
*Ascariasis – that means worms, they don’t like it
Audial deficiency, limited (there ya go Paul, yes it’s true just not in all conditions – also often of limited duration – but worth the duration yes?)
*Autoimmune diseases – Here psilocybes are the “concomitant” but also a critical element in some
Bacterioenteritis (heh – the near future here… “Ola!” heh.btw – am a breed, can say that, so save it)
Bacterium dentrificans (causes of dental abscess and deterioration)
*Bronchitis, varying etiology, limited
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*Cancer – not psychological (Poo!) MED-I-CAL (another easy $moke $creen of murder… “get ‘em high and let ‘em….” see? They pay for this skullduggery too as double victims.)
*Cardiac insufficiency/irregularity, varying etiologies and symptoms
*Degenerative disk disease
Drug addiction – subjective, limited (Beware of all uses involving “Can’t ya see it? Don’t ya believe it?” the Groff people stand on a pile of sand….always did)
*Endocrine disorders generally – and typically + +
*“Farmers lung” – various types and mixed results depending on type from “great” to “helpful”
*Gonorrhea (God’s pity I guess for the poor “make sex sexier with drugs” bums)
*HIV/AIDS – again, not as a psychological (ridiculous) but as an antiviral and endocrine of course
*Hyper and hypoadrenalism such as “Cushing’s Syndrome” and such – No one knows the limits here I’m afraid, just benefits and those mixed/varied owing to broad range of the manifestations and etiologies
Infections generally
*Intracellular accumulations – limited
*Jaundice – care in dosing and progressive resolution or you’ll just blow it with them, maybe literally
*Leukemia – although “just another”, a good and fun one indeed where applicable
*Lymphodema – traumatic and otherwise – in traumatic we nurse them down some first with others
*Melanoma – though another type of cancer already listed, melanoma is nasty and pernicious
*May be a cure for the intentional information manipulating and censoring of MAPS, Erowid and other such by exposure (I think it’s called grandiosis ani effulges? “Kissing up to an ass that’s got your number already?” MAPS is Craps for the $uckers, uneducated and weak minded. Years behind and nothing secret about that. The “Barney” of neurotropics. Erowid the “Eddie Haskel”…)
*Methicillin resistant staph infections, entero and otherwise
*Most of the current “!Biowarfare!” top ten – so what of ‘em? That seems to be failing pitiful anyway like Levaquin.
*Obsessive Compulsive, limited and all that actually does go to **Moreno, really
*Organicity, cerebreo – limited and potentially dangerous i.e. not too practical in most cases
*Premature aging, limited (? On for sure with “little old man” in the extreme, but very worth doing though so rare owing to benefits in like cases of less complexity)
*Protein diseases (heh-heh, though I know the regular reader won’t get my gaff…you folder in their home)
*Retinitis – a painful and messy condition of the eye +!
*Schizoform disorders, limited, long term effectiveness limited usually – high $moke $creen potential there
*Some few neurotic and psychological disorders but well below the $hype$ - that’s all mostly to sucker some people out of their big money because it’s all they can “relate” to.
*Tuberculosis
*Urinary tract and bladder infections – but a lot to do for a simple condition
*Viral hepatitis and hepatic disorders generally
*Warthin’s – salivary gland tumors most yuckish
*Wound Healing - +!
I know that’s not much of a list, but I’m just dashing this off out of my head to demonstrate my points. Now, at least for awhile with your notebooks fuller and your cogs turning I can be a “Tassili Retiree” because I have better things to do and walking Miss Daisy is one of them. She has gone blind during the course of these articles, and I want to spend more time with her now. I don’t have the money for a specialist and her vet said “It is beyond me Karl.” So clearly, I have higher priorities at home. We’ll find our way.
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Best Wishes Always! Be careful of Rubberheads and Purple Dinosaurs!
+Dr. Karl Buchanan,
Rosa Sacella Scholastica Medicum
PS – Doing anything with the dying and neuros is ancient and way done – see “Bible” – doing it professionally is kind of sad and monstrous, but these folks need a job and I’ve hid behind babies. Mine got better though...+kb
PPS – If“Burpeley” can have Mommy Chen, you can have Dah Dee Folaffalot and at least feel more adult and intelligent. I thought I’d make me up a Barney name too – but just for fun so you’re in on the joke. Shall I get a grass skirt and a bone for my nose also, or will plain old “US Physician” serve sufficient?
**To the psychiatrist Moreno because in the temple circa 500 BC they would have simply thrown them off a cliff or smashed their head in with a rock for that (OCD) you know. So few ever the understanding friends of the OCD really. Conventional treatment is often such a heartbreak and barbarous that if Moreno would have said “Let’s give them a little gasoline with sugar and see if that helps?” I would have said “Buddy, I’m with ya. Let’s hold hands and pray.” You have to have seen it first hand to understand. +kb
“I’m surely in my dotage Dick, a sniveler makes me fairly sick” – Aleister Crowley
On the Johns Hopkins research, I was amazed to note that they were giving 30mg doses, which certainly can't be child's play. Yet, it would be irresponsible for you and I to do that at home. I sometimes wonder what planet these psychedelic researchers are actually living on. At any rate, Bud, keep well and take care. Cheers, Manton.
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Mushroom Johnstart
Just wanted to point out an error in your recent issue of Teo.You mis-spelled the name of the Gymnopilus in two places. In the photograph and in the text. The species is Gymnopilus aeruginosus, not Gymnopilus aervginous. (Corrections were made on Master. Thanx, slp/fmrc)
Also, That person who had a small shroom farm in Tiel is not the same as Fresh Mushrooms. In fact this person was so paranoid that I tried to arrange to meet him when I was there at Procare last spring and three shops which sold his mushrooms in their stores told me he did not want to meet anyone he did not know. Form talking to the sales clerks who purchased mushrooms form him, they told me he did not like strange foreigners asking about his business.
Even friends at Pro-care and at Fresh Mushrooms of Tiel, the largest producer of shrooms did not know who this person was. Fresh produces 20,000 kilos a week. And they only have about 9 workers. So This person McSmart is exaggerating the situation.
I have photos of McSmarts shroom products form the smart shops I visited and photographed. I think he was into selling dried shrooms under the counter so to speak or some other illegal drug activity, maybe x since he did not want to meet anyone.
Eventually I will add his products to my7 Mushrooms of Nederlands pages at my site.John
End of John Allen………….
Psilocybe Mushroom Bust
Alliance police: Stark County man arrested for drug trafficking
Posted By: Updated: 3/6/2009 10:04:57 AM Posted: 3/6/2009 4:15:11 AM
ALLIANCE -- Alliance Police say they confiscated a large amount of psilocybin mushrooms during a drug sting.
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The department's Special Investigation's Unit teamed up with the MahoningValley and
Columbiana Drug Task Forces, as well as the Adult Parole Authority to arrest 40-year-old Scott A. Burden of Louisville on a charge of aggravated trafficking.
Police say Burden allegedly tried to sell about a half a pound of psilocybin mushrooms to a woman.
This is the largest amount of psilocybin mushrooms the Alliance Police Dept has ever seized.
Burden was charged with aggravated drug trafficking. He was taken to the Stark County Jail, where he is being held on $50,000 bond.……
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Wisconsin Couple Commit Suicide After Pot and “Shroom” Bust,
The funeral for a Waukesha couple who committed suicide last month turned into a cry for marijuana law reform last week as the adult children of Dennis and Denise Schilling charged the government with hounding them to their deaths. Facing lengthy prison sentences and the loss of their home, the couple hung themselves in a Madison motel on September 25. At the funeral, four of five Schilling children wore shirts bearing messages such as, "DARE to Know the Truth About Marijuana," and told the Milwaukee Journal their parents were martyrs to the cause of legalizing marijuana, especially for medicinal purposes.The Schillings were arrested earlier this year after a snitch told the Waukesha Metro Drug Enforcement Unit they had a grow-op in their home. An undercover policeman and another snitch bought a total of $120 worth of marijuana from the couple, after which police raided the home, finding 21 plants, 12 grams of pot and "drug paraphernalia." On June 27, the Schillings and their son Joshua were charged with maintaining a drug house, manufacturing marijuana and mushrooms, and possession with intent to deliver marijuana and mushrooms.All three faced possible years in prison, but that wasn't enough for the drug warriors. On September 20, US Marshals hand-delivered a notice of forfeiture action against the couple's home. Although no one has explained why federal authorities were involved in seeking seizure of a home in a small-time state-prosecuted case, US Attorney Steven Biskupic, whose office filed the forfeiture motion, called the Schillings' set-up "a substantial grow operation." In a suicide note left at the scene, Denise Schilling offered a different explanation, citing her efforts to overcome a lifetime of disease. "I had tried every politically correct route, from religion to psychotropic drugs, and none of them helped me in any way," she wrote. "Perhaps someday people like me will not be persecuted. Perhaps someday it will not be a crime to take care of your health."Another of the couples' children, Caleb Schilling, pointed an accusing finger at the legal system. "We're being screwed by these people," he said…….Brought to my attention by Mr. John Allen.
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Color Photograph for #28“TEO” May 2009
JeroStorm Sale Contest winner
Psilocybe cubensis
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Mushroom Spore Print sample For #28“TEO”
Psilocybe cubensis
EDIBILITY – Poisonous (Psychoactive) – Contains the toxins Psilocybin and Psilocin.
FMRC’s Catalog Number for GulfCoast Isolation…………………………#SO38
This enclosed sample was collected in Costa Rica during February 2009.
They were provided by Daniel Hanes.
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Date:1/9/2009 9:11:02 PM Central Standard Time
From:dave
To:FloridaMycology@cs.com
Hi Stephen,
Just wanted to see if you have heard about this new sclerotia forming psilocybe sp.?A Vendor offers :: Spores for Microscopy :: Psilocybin Genera Spores (Major and Minor) :: Psilocybe galindoi (galindii) var. Georgia ATL#7 Large Sclerotia(TM)
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I also had a question about a bit of information you provided in a very early periodical from the TMC journal on CD. I don't know the issue, which really isn't important, but the data presented is of potentially great importance. You mentioned that you tried spraying a concoction of young Psilocybe primordia onto some Agaricus trays that weren't fruiting and within a very short period of time they fruited. My question is whether any further experiments have been done, and especially with mycorrhizal types to see if they could be fruited in the lab without their normal compliment. Now that would be a cool breakthrough! Thank you in advance Stephen for any info on this. I love the info you have disseminated to your members.
Dave
Dave.............That species of mushroom has been mono-graphed and worked on by Guzman, and the scientific name of :
Psilocybe galindoi Guzmán (= P. galindii Guzmán) has been designated.This tells me that there is such a species of mushroom, as I am well aware of Guzman and his works.I do not keep up with mushrooms that produce controlled substances like I use to, when working under a Scheduled One DEA Permit.I work now mainly on mushrooms growing with trees (mycorrhiza).I do publish the TEO Mushroom Journal that deals with these types of Mushrooms, so in that respect, this type of information does interest me.Also see page 16.
Yes, many experiments were done dealing with the "pinning hormone" isolated from Ps. cubensis.Although this particular hormone had no effect on several of the mycorrhiza species tested, it lead me to discover other hormones that did play a roll in pinning these types of mushrooms.I sit on this research, not releasing too much as of yet.I will release an article in the future about what I have learned and discovered about all this.
Thank You, for your interest in FMRC! Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
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“T E O N A N A C A T L”
The International Journal Of
Psychoactive Mushrooms(TEO)
Color Photograph for #27“TEO” February 2009
Gymnopilusaervginosus
Found on wood chips, Ashaway, RI.Photograph taken by James Smith.
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BLURB FOR SEX MUSHROOMS AND ROCK AND ROLL
Mushroom John………………
This article is a first on the subject of the psilophoric effects of
the shrooms when interfaced with the conscious mind and primeval
effects of mushrooms with the sensory factor of human sexuality between two loving individuals while performing between one another, an act of human nature, natural in all of its euphoric emotions.
This too, is an example of what God and the meaning of life is all about. A natural human instinct of procreation, as well as the end results which allow progenitors of the species to complete their primary purpose in life, that of the subconscious procreation of life itself.It confers to oneself while on shrooms that now is the time and that such time is ripe and so is the body and the shrooms will lead the yin and the yang to this form of basic instinct that many do not believe possible while under the influence of the mushrooms. And then there is the question posed by the voices of multitudes of others who ask the question, "have you ever.....?" While these effects are a common feeling, listed somewhat ambiguously in 1960 by Leo Hollister et. al., in a definitive paper on the mental and physical descriptions of the effects of psilocybin and psilocine on the human consciousness, they also noted 'transient sexual feelings' as one of those effects.
A distinctive analysis might suggest and interpreted those words as simply implying, "animal sex, primeval sex or instinctive sex."'Transient Sexual Feelings' was but one of the many subjective effects noted on human subjects that are attributed to the symbiosis of and interaction of psilocybine within the mind and the human bodies want and need of sexuality between loving couples while under such influence.
Not to sway from the subject matter of shrooms and sex, but many of those same effects have also been noted between users of mushrooms who do have a sexual relationship with others during such inebriations. These users have also noted the same orgasmic euphoric effects while under the influence of other drugs such as LSD and mescaline and its many derivatives (peyote, san pedro or synthetic sulfates of mescaline such as MDA, MMDA and MDMA).
The primary psilophoria mentioned is that of multiple orgasms for the female and that the male counterpart of the symbiosis can have an erection for hours and is able to hold back orgasms in order to provide the female partner the ultimate pleasure she desires for hours on end.This article also notes and describes Timothy Leary's shroom experience in this matter, observations of Albert Hofmann who noticed a moment of sexuality in the shamanic dances of Maria Sabina's daughters during a salvia session in Oaxaca.
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This issue of Shroomtalk 5, tells how I became interested in drugs and my first experiences on acid and on shrooms while experiencing an act of sex, as well as comments taken from some of the early codices of the Spanish historians who had noted that aphrodisiac-like effects were observed in Native Mesoamericans who used the mushrooms ritualistically and privately.
Third, this article also correlates the use of today’s music as an adjacent to the full beneficial end game of this symbiotic connection with mushrooms and sex. More psychological understandings can be obtained between two humans when under the influence if the music of today is used rather than the music of 300 years ago.
While psychoanalysts always played the classical music of Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, i.e., to their human subjects while under the influence of LSD and other drugs in therapy, the documented end results produced not much healing during therapeutic rehabilitation to their clients. It would be an injustice to play such music to the youth of today while under the influence of such powerful entheogenic plant healers and would only disturb, scare and cause distress to the already inflicted individual who needs psychotherapy to improve ones mental condition. And while sex is also taboo in the clinical setting of the therapist, the music should fit the generation and not that of the music of hard times.Therefore it would be more proper to use these mushrooms with the music of the time, music that this generation can relate directly to. And so it would enhance the experience of both the sexuality and interbreeding of humanity with that of the symbiosis of the mushrooms and those who ingest them.
This is a great article that none should miss concerning a matter that has been taboo for many years in the academic writings of the scholars who only made small notations in regards to this subject in their scholarly published works, but there were many authors and investigators of these plants who have also invoked this matter to the public in small amounts of textual reference in their contemporary writings over the years.
I hope that this post in my thread makes sense as I am very tired and my vision is not the best and I have not edited this post at the moment.It freely flowed from my mind to the pages of this thread in response to Ralph Metzner's comments about the "do not eat or have sex for three days before and after consuming an entheogenic medicinal plant or a synthetic mind-altering substance." According to Maria Sabina, to do so while on mushrooms would eventually bring one to madness. However, I say this is the finest madness to be drawn to.While this is true for those who take such substances ceremoniously and ritualistically as a healing source, that is fine. One is there to take those substances to cure an ill, whether it is physical or psychological and the belief is imbued through the shaman and the sick and their connection to the substance they use through divination and correct the illness one is seeking help for. This kind of Shamanic healing works because the sick believe in the voice and medicine of the shaman.But communication of a sexual nature between two loving partners while on mushrooms can also be of a healing nature and it is a
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part of human nature to do so. And to enhance the end result of human sexuality, the orgasm by a thousand-fold, who is to say that is wrong?
Who is to say that it is not of a healing nature or act? And who is to
say it is not a religious feeling to become one with all during the end
of that particular experience of symbiosis with God, the shrooms, the
music one loves and the orgasm of the human experience brought to us through God and our human nature through and while under the influence of God's gifts to humankind and the love it brings out in all of us at that time in space and mind?
Hollister, Leo E., Prusmack, J. J., Paulsen, J., and Norma Rosenquist. 1960. Comparison of three psychotropic drugs (psilocybin, JB 329, and IT-290) in volunteer subjects.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. vol. 131:428-434.
November.
CashingInOnTheMagicMushroom
That was one of the primary reasons that R. Gordon Wasson tried to suppress the data on the mushrooms of Mexico with all of the publications regarding the mushrooms as originally written and published in French journals and books. Wasson often expressed mixed feelings about announcing their rediscovery to the world because he feared that psychic charlatans and healers would used their ways to profit on the mushrooms and he felt and believed that such fakers should never have access to the knowledge of the ESP and Paranormal powers imbued by the mushrooms. He felt those in the field of psychic and paranormal circles should never have access to such knowledge because they would eventually use it to commit fraud on innocent people seeking help with communicating to one's beloved deceased ancestors or relatives. That was the primary reason for changing Maria Sabina's name to that of Eva Mendez in his Life magazine article and his wife Valentina Pavlovna Wasson also hid the name of the tribe whom Wasson studied with, the Mazatec, by her article in Home and Garden Journal, "I ate the Sacred Mushrooms" by saying that the curandero performed the ceremony, did so in Mixtec. When indeed it was spoken in the Mazatec language of the Nahuautl. I am sorry but I personally do not have the time to look Wasson's comments about this fact. I do know that he was very happy when CIA agent and short order cook, James Moore was unable to open the door to finding the correct frequency of the chemical activity of the various aspects of the mushrooms after infiltrating Wasson's group of intrepid explorers. Moore took the mushrooms and Piule (morning glory) seeds back to his lab in America and failed to find the active ingredients within the sacred mushrooms. Then Roger Heim, famed French mycologist then spent about three years or so growing P. mexicana without being able to determine what was int he mushrooms. Then, being aware of Albert Hofmann's research with LSD, Heim sent Hofmann a batch of shrooms to analyze. It took Hofmann over two years before he finally extracted the chemicals in Psilocybe mexicana and synthesized what he called indocybine, the generic name for psilocine. For two years he gave them to animals with no positive results. So he figured he should eat some and then maybe he would know how to look for the chemicals within the shrooms which brought about an altered state of consciousness. Then after he ate some, a few days later he turned his whole laboratory colleagues onto the mushrooms,
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and they in turn also turned others on. As did Wasson, and later Leary and Alpert.And that is how it began with the spread of psilocybian consciousness, And Leary, who brought word of the shrooms to Harvard's elite and to the undergraduates who experimented with them and to the therapeutic research at the Concord State Reformatory for Men, as well as the famed, Miracle of Marsh Chapel, the mushrooms were then spread around the world. Leary published papers on this research which, in the early 1960s did show that mushrooms did have a valid medical reason for use in therapy, later proven by Rick Doblin of MAPS as his update on Leary's research actually validated what Timothy Leary published as a valid treatment with positive results and because of the Doblin paper and the recent John Hopkin's study, Those above noted researchers works have now led to more research in the value of psilocybian mushrooms in medicine.
mjshroomer………………Have a shroomy day and may all of your days be shroom Hey Mr. John...........doing well and healed back I hope.Reminds me when Jeremy Bigwood wanted to work on the common named mushroom Peele's Lepiota. I made him agree that any actives would not be named, therefore, could not be made illegal. Neither of us ever worried about the DEA doing all that work. They always wait until the work is done, then step in and talk about how bad for society its going to be....grin. Steve:
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Prehistoric Drug Kit Is Evidence Of Stoned Age http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4969360.ece From The Sunday TimesOctober 19, 2008 Jonathan Leake, Science Editor Stone Age humans could well have deserved the name. Scientists have found the drug paraphernalia used by prehistoric humans to cook up herbal mixtures to get themselves high. Scientists have long suspected that humans have an ancient history of drug use but much of the evidence has been indirect, ranging from the bizarre images found in prehistoric cave art to the discovery of hemp seeds in excavations. Now, however, researchers have found equipment used to prepare hallucinogenic drugs for sniffing, and dated them back to South American tribes. Quetta Kaye, of University College London, and Scott Fitz-patrick, an archeologist from North CarolinaStateUniversity, found the ceramic bowls, plus tubes used to inhale drug fumes or powders, on the Caribbean island of Carriacou. The bowls appear to have originated in South America between 100BC and 400BC and were then carried the 400 miles to the islands. One implication is that drug use may have been widespread for thousands of years before this time. Kaye's research, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, said: "The objects tested for this study are ceramic inhaling bowls that were likely used for the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances."
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The use of such paraphernalia for inhaling drugs is well-known but the age was a surprise. What is less clear is exactly which drugs would have been used. Cannabis was not found in the Caribbean then. There were, however, alternatives. Kaye believes one of the most likely was cohoba, a hallucinogen made from the beans of a mimosa species.Archeological investigations in Mexico and Texas have found indirect evidence that as far back as 5,000 years ago humans were extracting mind-expanding drugs from mescal beans and peyote cacti, while opiates can be obtained from species such as poppies. Fungi may also have been used. Moulds, including the powerfully hallucinogenic ergot found on rotting vegetation, were common in caves. Fungi like the fly agaric toadstool or psilocybin mushroom were also widespread. Richard Davenport-Hines, a former history lecturer at the London School of Economics and author of The Pursuit of Oblivion, a global history of narcotics, believes humans have been using drugs for thousands of years."Drug use became widespread in many early agriculture-based societies simply because it was the only way people could cope with spending long hours working in the fields, often in horrible conditions like baking sun," he said.Many archeologists believe religion and spiritual beliefs must also have played a part, with drugs being used to induce spiritual or trance-like states.
Published: Monday 10 November 2008 ………Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink has announced that the possession and sale of magic mushrooms will be banned from 1 December. Parliament asked the minister to introduce a ban after a French girl committed suicide in Amsterdam in March last year while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The minister wanted to introduce the ban before summer, but this proved impossible because the bill still needed the approval of the Council of State, the most senior government advisory body. The association representing shops which sell magic mushrooms, the so-called smartshops, has expressed disappointment and said it would take legal steps to prevent the ban. =============================================================== http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j34CRMyMgD08jBecb14zjSyaipAw Dutch Mushroom Laws Leave Grower Bitter Nov 13, 2008………TIEL, Netherlands (AFP) — Freddy Schaap, a grower of hallucinogenic mushrooms, is bitter about having to lay off half his staff on account of a Dutch government ban on his psychedelic produce."I will have to dismiss at least half of my 16 employees" when the ban on cultivating and selling the so-called magic mushrooms enters into force on December 1, Schaap told AFP on his farm in Tiel in the central Netherlands. #27 TEO February 2009Page 08Copyrighted Material McSmart, the business he created in 2000, produces some 25 tones a year of the substance known fondly by users as "shrooms" and in the Netherlands as "paddos". "The ban makes no sense," protests the 36-year-old entrepreneur, saying he felt angry and deceived.Declining to detail his turnover, Schaap deplores the "hundreds of thousands of euros" he had invested in the fresh mushroom industry, which unlike the already banned dried variety has thus far been traded freely in the Netherlands. "I've been set back ten years. I've lost everything," said Schaap. In vast sheds among lush, green agricultural fields, McSmart cultivates different types of hallucinogenic mushrooms from the spore phase right through to their packaging in 30-gramme plastic punnets.After being cultivated in laboratories, the mushrooms are grown to adulthood in the half-dark on a bed of compost, straw and fertilizer. They grow so fast that sometimes McSmart staff have to harvest more than once a day, after which the fungi are immediately packaged for consumption and shipped off to specialized Dutch vending points known as "smart shops" where a punnet containing two doses is sold for about 12 euros.According to industry association VLOS, there are six growers in the Netherlands, 180 smart shops and a few hundred employees in an industry with an annual turnover of 15-20 million euros. Announcing the ban this week, health minister Ab Klink said the consumption of paddos "can lead to unpredictable and risky behavior".Authorities drew up a list of 186 species of mushrooms whose sale will be banned in future. More are expected to follow later. This may have been easier to accept, said Schaap, "had there been a good reason for the ban, like for cigarettes that kill thousands of people every year".He claimed that mushrooms have never been proved to be harmful, and proclaims pride in the product of which he was a keen consumer when younger. "The use of mushrooms gives you insight, it should be part of growing up. It is a nice experience, friendly. People experience it positively -- it is something you should do two or three times in your life." He blames the ban on posturing by political parties, adding: "It will simply pave the way for illegal trade without any control or guarantee of quality". According to Amsterdam health authorities, more than 90 percent of the 1.5- to 2 million doses of mushrooms consumed annually are sold to foreign tourists.A quarter of smart shops are found in the Dutch capital.The death in March last year of a French teenager who had taken mushrooms before jumping to her death from an Amsterdam bridge, reignited the debate over the hallucinogenic fungus. Though no link had been established between the product and the girl's death, it led a majority of MPs to call for a ban.VLOS has announced that it would seek compensation for its members, like Schaap, from Dutch courts."We will try to stay afloat a few months longer by producing those hallucinogenic mushrooms which are not yet on the government list, but that will not save my business," said Schaap.There has been a heated national debate in recent weeks about the Netherlands' famously liberal drugs laws, as more and more MPs seek a reconsideration of the tolerant approach to so-called soft drugs like marijuana. There have also been calls for the closure of the famous Dutch coffee shops where marijuana is sold. ----------------------------------------------
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One Mans Journey with Psilocybin
“I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON, THE LILY OF THE VALLIES” –HOLY BIBLE
One Mans Journey with Psilocybin
CHAPTER 1
The evening passed into night it was summer in California.I’d seen my wife and roommate off to bed roughly an hour earlier and all was quiet.After preparing 7 g of dried cubensis mushrooms in boiling water with honey I paused.This would be the first time I taken this quantity alone.The Scriptures say “fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” I was afraid.The Scripture also say “if you find honey eat just enough or else you will vomit.”I lit a candle and separated the mushrooms from the tea.The mushrooms I set aside in a bowl and covered with honey.The cup, that Holy Grail or rather the Blood therein I took in hand.
Now the reason for the ceremony was this.I had been addicted to tobacco for 2 ½ years.Back then I believed you had to have a need or reason to take the Mushrooms.I didn’t realize that the love of the Lord is desire enough, that the seeking after his wisdom qualifies you to take mushrooms.As I drank the liquid and later ate the glistening blue stained medicine, I hummed this hymn “for my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of Lord...”The night deepened, glowing rich in velvety shades of dark brown, grays and purples.The light from the candle gave off a rainbow iridescent halo. The first vision arrived about one hour into the journey.It fell into the category of fight or flight emotions.The walls of my house became honeycombed and outside insects, Yellow jackets gathered…at some level of consciousness the “honey” within the honeycomb represented the soul stuff within us all.Outside the insect attack raged on as swarms of hungry Yellow jackets ate away at the protective honeycomb layer.
This vision was hard to endure; I did not know how to resist it.I fled and in my flight the visions transmuted.Men, police or secret agents FBI CIA were knocking outside my
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door.They too wanted the “honey,” but this time it was the mushrooms I had in my house.I half wondered if I should open the door and throw my medicine out to these pigs.Later under the teaching of the Lord my respect for the peacekeepers improved much.In the vision, threats were made against my family and enormous spiritual pressure was applied to separate me from this what I consider the Tree of Life.I now understand the basic concept of fight and flight as two lions guarding the gate to the kingdom of heaven within.By being unable to resist the fear of the insects I panicked and set in motion the flight emotions which draw the attention of one of these guardian lions.You could say this lion preys upon the fear nature in all of us and that we are given to our primal reactions of fighting (resisting) or fleeing (hiding from) the unknown.Eventually I saw the climax of these fear driven visions as the government took all of the psychedelic medicines which were shown as “green goopy alien medicine” and buried them in the desert sand.
At the passage of these initial visions I was temporarily freed.I found I could not stand and could barely crawl.I thought I might be sick.Later I learned that Psilocybin is a major stomach lining irritant but that by taking several spoons full of yogurt the nausea quickly passes.I was torn between vomiting and not letting myself down.The obvious and undeniable display of this projectile fact was evidence against my choice to consume them in the first place.I collapsed on the floor in a fetal position as the last fatalistic visions were shown to me.Tomorrow’s newspaper headlines read “man dies of magic mushroom overdose in his own house.”Beneath it was a picture tracing the outline of my body on the carpet where I had died the night before.Did I know then that the lethal dose for Psilocybin is still unknown?It truly amazes me just how painful the unknown is.Had I known then what I know now, that Psilocybin mushrooms are the least toxic psychedelic medicine known to man - surely I would not have feared such an ending.Even marijuana is more toxic yet no one has ever died from eating or smoking it.I don’t really recall if I knew these facts but as I sat up and reposition myself a different sort of vision began.I saw the silhouette of a large oak tree on a hilltop before me.As I looked I grew closer to the tree.When I was only a few yards away the tree spoke.It had no visible mouth, but it had power and I knew that the tree was like the Lord.Its words echoed in my mind although no audible sound broke the silence.The tree inquired “where are the believers?Where are the 12 tribes?My Children?There was such weight in these words that I knew an honest answer would prove ill for my fellow humans.I looked over my shoulder and I could see humanity, who had fallen into all sorts of intrigues.None made their way to the “Tree.”I had to answer and this is what I said “(Lord) give me more time to prepare them, I need a little more time…” this seemed to satisfy the oak.A new vision appeared to my left in the valley below.Grain, golden wheat heads blowing in unison with the wind.As I watched a black tar descended upon the wheat.Quickly the whole field was covered with black pitch.The “tree” spoke to me again, “son of ash, the field is your lungs and the wheat is you alveoli.The tar is from the cigarettes you smoke.”I looked again at the sorry state of the field.“Son of ash, the “tree” continued, the sun is rising, when it’s light reaches the field it will be set afire.That fire is cancer.”
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Time passed and the sun began to rise.But the tar covered field became a new thing.It was the people of the earth, and the tar was our collective sin.Again the sun was shown rising, it is written that the “Son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings” but this son was spelled Sun and it was bringing wrath.Once more it was for the people that I was scared.When the rays of the rising Sun touched the “tar” covered people, great devastation would occurred.I was reminded that I only had a little time to help them (and myself).To accent this fateful timeline, the vision switched to a personal level.I was suddenly aware of a gas leak in my kitchen!The stove had been left on but without a flame.The levels of gas after several hours had risen like an invisible tide.I crawled into the kitchen but was unable to shut the gas leak off.To keep this in perspective, the reader should note that we had an electric stove at the time and no gas leak was possible.But so powerful was the Hand of God upon me that I could not discover this simple fact.You see I was undergoing His initiation and as a new born I could not yet raise myself off the floor on my own knees or legs.I panic I looking back into the living room and I saw the “hangman’s noose.”It came in the form of a candle that sat on the table.The flame was just above the invisible but rising tide of gas.With everything in me I crawled out to that table and blew somehow dragged myself up to blow out the flame.Feeling faint, I looked out my sliding glass door and there was the orange glow of the rising Sun as it mounted the sky.I collapsed, there was nothing I could do, the whole house was going to explode.I would be blown up and the Psilocybin mushrooms in my closet and freezer would be blown sky-high and spread to all the peoples of the world.It was only in this final surrender that I found my peace.It seemed that in this way I would complete my mission to God, I would be blown to bits to send spores across our globe… tragic.
Naturally that did not happen, the sun rose and I slowly came back to my senses.Now some 10 years on and hundreds of journeys later I find that this last vision did happen.I was “broken” that night when I fell upon the “Rock” of God.This was so that I might be shared with many, for I am the knowledge that I have gained and the wisdom and I share it with all I find favor with.My heart’s purpose is to share the knowledge of the kingdom of God and his righteousness so that our world may be “on earth as it is in heaven.”As Jesus said “you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my ecclesia,” that is those who are “called out.”It does not say “church” in the original scripture, that word was added later… is He calling you out of the world to Himself???For me He was and is and since that night I have ceased cigarette smoking and been set free.God has surely blessed that which I have named, may he bless you also!
BY MATTHALAMEW
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PSYCHOACTIVEMUSHROOM QUIZ“PMQ”
Psychoactive Mushroom Quiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal.If you know the answer, write it down and mail it in.No phone calls.No E-mail.No FAX.Your entry must be mailed by 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can use Airmail).The first letter that is opened and has the correct answer WINS.What do you win?An entire year’s subscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE!Your name will be posted with the correct answer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish your name”).So, come on and impress your mushroom friends with your knowledge.Send your entry to FMRC, “PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523.
Last Issue’s #26 TEO “PMQ”:LIFE Magazine published an article in May 1957 about “Mushrooms and Visions.”Who was the Author of this Story?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer:Dr. Gordon Wasson
Winner – Stephen Lewis, IA
“PMQ” For this #27 TEO Issue:What was the species of mushroom that was first eaten by western man, on June 29, 1955?
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Mushroom Spore Print sample For #27“TEO”
Amanita muscaria EDIBILITY – Poisonous (Psychoactive) – Contains the toxins Muscarine, Muscimol, and Ibotenic Acid.
FMRC’s Catalog Number …………………………………………………………#SOO81
This mushroom, Amanita muscaria, is usually seen underneath Pine Trees in the USA.They appear as large and stately mushrooms, being a bright red color, with off colored light specks.They produce a white spore print.They most frequently fruit right about the time of the first frost.As they receive water from the host tree, rains are not needed.
Samples collected by Miss Beth, just outside Seattle, WA, Oct. 2008
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More on Psilocybe galindoi from Mr. John Allen…………
Psilocybe galindoi: belongs to the stirps (section) Mexicanae.
Originally in 1983, it was only known from the state of Jalisco in Mexico. By 2004, Guzmán et. al., reported it from new localities in Mexico.
As of yet, I am not sure of Workman’s identification of P. galindoi as a var. from Georgia.
However, Workman is very good at what he studies.
Below are three papers that have presented taxonomy and mention of Psilocybe galindii.
The name is now as follows:
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P. galindoi Guzmán [= P. galindii Guzmán]. (Guzmán, 1983).
Guzmán, Gastón. 1983a. The Genus Psilocybe: a systematic Revision of the Known Species Including the History, Distribution and Chemistry of the Hallucinogenic Species. Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia vol. 74. J. Cramer. Vaduz. Germany.
Guzmán, Gastón. 2005. Species Diversity in Genus Psilocybe (Basidiomycotina, Agaricales, Strophariaceae) in the World Mycobiota, with Special Attention to Hallucinogenic Properties. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms vol. 7(1-2):3050331. An exhaustive world revision of all names considered in the genus Psilocybe is presented, of which the hallucinogenic species were treated with special emphasis. Seven hundred and eighteen names related to Psilocybe were found reported in the bibliography, of which 227 are accepted taxa in Psilocybe. The concept of the same genus followed here is that of Guzmán 1983; therefore Hypholoma, Melanotus, and Stropharia were excluded. Moreover, 53 species of Psathyrella, many times related with Psilocybe, were also excluded. The hallucinogenic species are 144, which are distributed in all the continents, of which Latin America (including the Caribbean), has the top, with more than 50 species. There are only 22 species in Canada and the US, while Mexico is the country with the highest number in the world, with 53 species. Europe has only 16 species, Asia 15, Africa 4, and Australia and eastern islands 19.
Guzmán, Gastón., Escalona, Franklin., and Florencia Ramírez-Guillén. 2004. Nuevos registros en México de especies de Psilocybe (Basidiomycotina, Agaricales, Strophariaceae). Revista Mexicana de Micologia vol. 19:23-31. Nine species of Psilocybe from Mexico from the states of Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz are discussed, of which Psilocybe caribaea, P. fuliginosa and P. subpsilocybioides are new to the micobiota of Mexico. Psilocybe galindii, P. mamillata, P. pegleriana, P. schultesii and P. subzapotecorum are recorded from new localities. Moreover, the first topotype of P. zoncuantlensis is studied. Only P. pegleriana, P. subpsilocybioides and P. zoncualentlensis are not hallucinogenic mushrooms.
The above references with annotations are copyright protected by John W. Allen And Jochen Gartz from their CD-ROM: “Teonanácatl: A Bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi.”
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Subj:
Marijuana use linked to increased risk of testicular cancer
Frequent and/or long-term marijuana use may significantly increase a man's risk of developing the most aggressive type of testicular cancer, according to a study by researchers at FredHutchinsonCancerResearchCenter. The study results were published online Feb. 9 in the journal Cancer.
The researchers found that being a marijuana smoker at the time of diagnosis was associated with a 70 percent increased risk of testicular cancer. The risk was particularly elevated (about twice that of those who never smoked marijuana) for those who used marijuana at least weekly and/or who had long-term exposure to the substance beginning in adolescence.
The results also suggested that the association with marijuana use might be limited to nonseminoma, a fast-growing testicular malignancy that tends to strike early, between ages 20 and 35, and accounts for about 40 percent of all testicular-cancer cases.
Since the 1950s, the incidence of the two main cellular subtypes of testicular cancer, nonseminoma and seminoma - the more common, slower growing kind that strikes men in their 30s and 40s - has increased by 3 percent to 6 percent per year in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. During the same time period, marijuana use in North America, Europe and Australia has risen accordingly, which is one of several factors that led the researchers to hypothesize a potential association. "Our study is not the first to suggest that some aspect of a man's lifestyle or environment is a risk factor for testicular cancer, but it is the first that has looked at marijuana use," said author Stephen M. Schwartz, M.P.H., Ph.D., an epidemiologist and member of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Hutchinson Center.
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Established risk factors for testicular cancer include a family history of the disease, undescended testes and abnormal testicular development. The disease is thought to begin in the womb, when some fetal germ cells (those that eventually make sperm in adulthood) fail to develop properly and become vulnerable to malignancy. Later, during adolescence and adulthood, it is thought that exposure to male sex hormones coaxes these cells to become cancerous.
"Just as the changing hormonal environment of adolescence and adulthood can trigger undifferentiated fetal germ cells to become cancerous, it has been suggested that puberty is a 'window of opportunity' during which lifestyle or environmental factors also can increase the risk of testicular cancer," said senior author Janet R. Daling, Ph.D., an epidemiologist who is also a member of the Center's Public Health Sciences Division. "This is consistent with the study's findings that the elevated risk of nonseminoma-type testicular cancer in particular was associated with marijuana use prior to age 18." *I am only the messenger here, and make this information available for what it might be worth.I also just recently heard where a compound that suppresses the appetite was found in Pot.This might be…….but we all know there is another compound that increases the appetite (munchies) that is in Pot.It surely is much more powerful and certainly the more dominant of the two……grin.Slp/fmrc
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Eating Cakes
A post made on edot by slp
Mushrooms are produced and feed by the mycelium.To produce a 5 gram mushroom, you will need at least 5 grams of mycelium.So, you can figure that 5 grams of mycelium might be just about the same as a 5 gram mushroom.
If your cake only has .5 gram of mycelium in it, seems to me, not much is going to happen.If the cake is holding 10 grams of mycelium, you might have something worth your trouble.So to say what is going to happen when one eats a cake, it depends on how much weight of mycelium is there.slp/fmrc
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From Dr. Manton Hirst……………….. (PhysOrg.com) -- A hallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to South America and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysterious protein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered.
The finding, reported in the Feb. 13 issue of Science, may ultimately have implications for treating drug abuse and/or depression. Many more experiments will be needed, the researchers say.
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Scientists have been searching for years for naturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1 receptor. In addition, a unique receptor for the hallucinogen, called “dimethyltryptamine” (DMT), has never been identified.
The UW-Madison researchers made the unusual pairing by doing their initial work the "old-fashioned," yet still effective, way. They diagrammed the chemical structure of several drugs that bind to the sigma-1 receptor, reduced them to their simplest forms and then searched for possible natural molecules with the same features. Biochemical, physiological and behavioral experiments proved that DMT does, in fact, activate the sigma-1 receptor.
"We have no idea at present if or how the sigma-1 receptor may be connected to hallucinogenic activity," says senior author Arnold Ruoho, chair of pharmacology at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. "But we believe that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) may be interested in biological mechanisms underlying psychoactive and addictive drug action."
In addition to being a component of psychoactive snuffs and sacramental teas used in native religious practices in Latin America, DMT is known to be present in some mammalian tissues, and it has also been identified in mammalian blood and spinal fluid. Elevated levels of DMT and a related molecule have been found in the urine of schizophrenics.
Ruoho speculates that the hallucinogen's involvement may mean that the sigma-1 receptor is connected in some fashion to psychoactive behavior. When his team injected DMT into mice known to have the receptor, the animals became hyperactive; mice in which the receptor had been genetically removed did not.
"Hyperactive behavior is often associated with drug use or psychiatric problems," says Ruoho. "It's possible that new, highly selective drugs could be developed to inhibit the receptor and prevent this behavior."
The study revealed an additional neurologic link by confirming that the sigma-1 receptor and some compounds that bind to it inhibit ion channels, which are important for nerve activity. Work by many researchers — including some from UW-Madison — initially showed this relationship in earlier studies.
Some studies have also linked the receptor to the action of antidepressant drugs, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists recently found that it appears to serve as a "chaperon," helping proteins to fold properly. The Wisconsin researchers found that DMT is derived from the naturally occurring amino acid tryptophan and is structurally related to the neurotransmitter serotonin. This finding, Ruoho says, illustrates the mantra often used in the biological processing of natural molecules: Nothing goes to waste.
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"Our findings support the idea that biochemical alterations of molecules such as tryptophan can produce simple compounds such as DMT that may target other regulatory pathways served by sigma-1 receptors," he says.
DMT may also reflect the presence of an even larger family of natural compounds that arise from other structurally related amino acids that may further regulate the receptor, Ruoho adds. "It may well be that these different, naturally derived chemical forms regulate the sigma-1 receptor in tissue and organ-specific ways," he says.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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