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Psilocybin Grows New Brain Cells
ProfessorJuan R. Sanchez-Ramos M.D, Ph.D.
"Effects of Psilocybin and Other Selective Sarotonin Agonists onHippocampal Dependent Learning and Neurogenesis". April 17,2010 Made possible by MAPS.
More information on this little known, held back, information can be found bysearching MAPS for the articles on April 17, 2010. Two Videos on this can be found at: http://shroomotopia.net/index.php?showtopic=24270#entry277953
As I got someletters claiming there was a mushroom with gills in the genus Boletus, Ithought I would clear all the arguing up. Boletes or Boletales, is a "group" of fungi that fall underBasidiomycetes. This is not a Genus, buta group. Now there is a mushroom withgills in the group Boletales named Phylloporus rhodoxanthus that doeshave gills but it is in the genus Phylloporus. It is also "incorrectly" called the "GilledBolete". No mushroom in the genusBoletus has gills. Otherwise it would becalled Boletus rhodoxanthus which itis not because it is in the genus Phylloporus. I stand by my statement "No mushroom in the genus Boletus hasgills". slp/fmrc
Mr. John Allen…….Steven my friend, here issome data for the next issue of Teo.
[quote from JWA]
There areactually over 85 Psilocybe species worldwide that contain nopsilocine/psilocybine in them, and my new list, the Allen List, if I can finishthe issue IX rewrite in a few weeks, lists over 200 species of fungi thatcontain the alkaloids psilocine/psilocybine. Now that does notinclude a dozen or more new species in the forthcoming copy of Guzman'srevised The Genus Psilocybe. Some species have been changed fromPsilocybe to Hypholoma, etc. My Allen list removes all the falsepositive species described in many papers over the past 100 or more years.
[Quote from JWAFinished here, more below]
I know I had two errors inmy first book, one came from Daniel Stuntz himself when he Identified P.stuntzii as P. cyanescens, not noticing that Singer and Smith's id ofWakefield's Kew Gardens in Surry late 1940 ID had no ring while P. stuntzii did(Thus the term, Blue Ringer. Of course the paper on P. stuntzii came outshortly after my book; “Magic Mushrooms of the PacificNorthwest” was published. Maybe I might do a self-published book (Amazon Create program or anE-book or Nook book on shrooms. Would love all color, thus the CD-ROMs. Right now I am replacing every page of myjournal with larger images to fill the page space for most images. I have afeeling the journal will enlarge from the 186-190 pages or so. Right now itshould be 186 pages as that is the last image, but the numbering of the pageshas caused difficulties because the footers and headers were separately done asthree articles and one bk. Rev. for the bibliography.
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Now it appears that P.stuntzii in the PNW is con-specific with P. ovoideocystidiata. The differenceis that the ovoid’s ring stays while the stem keeps growing so the veil isnowhere near the caps edge on the stipe. While P. stuntzii’s ring is close tothe cap where it opens throughout its age. The new book was in such a hurrythat it listed the P. allenii as P.cyanofriscosa/P. cyanofriscana. Neithera proper name. My photos and collectionsof the P. ovoideocystidiata fromBethany Ohio do not look the same as P.stuntzii in the PNW, yet Alan Rockefeller, Joseph Ammirati (he wrote bigexpensive volumes years ago on mushrooms of the PNW and Canada and on Toxic and Poisonous Mushrooms of Canada andthe USA (not sure of exact Titles of his books, but were large volumes withmassive colored photos, etc. HE had a section on magic shrooms. Some problems occurred because many of usrelied on errors that real mycologists wrote. It is similar to the false positive of Jeremy Bigwood and Michael Beug'sanalysis of your Lepiota. According to Jeremy Bigwood, the vial ofpharmaceutical psilocine used to test the mushroom alkaloids was stolen by astudent in the lab and replaced with other tryptamine non-activecompounds. Even Michael Beug's websitewhile at EvergreenCommunity College has apicture and identification on it of Psilocybe silvatica which is in error butMichael originally in the early 1990s had a student create his shroom websitefor edibles, poisonous and hallucinogenic shrooms. I brought that error to Michael's attentionyears ago but Michael informed me that the student was long gone and thatMichael had no password to get into the site to correct anything. I also used with permission at the time, Chapel Hills NorthCarolina's field guide to the North AmericanPsilocybe 24-page booklet's photos of Psilocybecubensis. The centerfold had a fullpage 6-8 color photo center but had two black and white photos with P. cubensis in them and the two blackand white images had some penis-shaped young cubes in the book which F.C.Ghouled described in the captions as young specimens of Panaeolus subbalteatus. Theywere really baby cubes that had not opened their caps. Several years later, a Dr. from a Universityin Mississippi (named Jacobs, no relation toJim Jacobs) wrote a paper that Panaeolussubbalteatus was the 2nd most popular mushroom in Mississippiin the Southeast USA and PNW of the northwestcoastal area of the Pacific. The firstcame from the error in Ghouled’s book in which Ghouled also described Amanita muscaria as the famed ‘Teonanácatl’psilocybin mushroom of Mexico. He used Ghouled’s $150 cent field guide ashis cited source and the PNW comment came from Andrew Weil's three timespublished versions of his articles, “Mushrooms I,” Mushrooms II,” and Mushrooms III.” Those three chapters were first published ina short lived journal, now available in many University library stacks underthe journals hardbound six month editions called, "The Journal of Altered States of Consciousness." Then they appeared in the "Journal of Psychedelic Drugs," (whoyears later changed the name of that journal to, "The Journal of Psychoactive Drugs." Then years later, Andy Weil, one of theprimary people who led to the investigations that eventually caused the firingof both Tim Leary and Richard Alpert (Baba Ram Dass) from Harvard Universityusing the excuse that they would not stop giving drugs to undergraduatestudents, and that Leary and Alpert’s use of drugs (at the time between thelate summer/early fall of 1960-1964 or so) caused many problems to thehierarchy of Harvard’s Board of trustees. At the same time, Andrew Weil was a Phonyfor the Harvard Lampoon and the daily newspaper of Harvard begin to
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write articles on teacherswho had been providing drugs to students on campus.
Something Harvard began tofear. The many news items Weil publishedin the weekly paper then began to bring to the attention of the local Boston newspapers, such activities and the constant drugshenanigans of Leary involving students and drugs began to explode into America’s mainstream news media and spreadacross America.
At that time, all drugs(LSD, DMT, DET, peyote, mescaline, harmala, harmaline, MDA were all legal,except for the narcotics. That alsoincluded Marijuana Seeds of marijuana, cocaine, heroin (opium, tincture ofparegoric, morphine, codeine, etc.) were illegal. Marijuana because of the Anslinger/Hooverbacked by William Randolph Hurst (Owner of all the Trees from NorthernCalifornia to Canada) and Dow Chemicals (owner of oils, paint thinners, seedsfor making oils, etc., all fell under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937-1938 andthe opiates were illegal due to the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914.
While at Harvard, Learywas into transcendental meditative treatments and into interpersonalrelationships with patients in his psychiatric studies (He was kicked out of West Point earlier for having an affair with a general’sdaughter or a colonel’s daughter) all before joining Harvard. Not many people are aware but Tim was not aprofessor at Harvard. He was a teacher with no tenure.
He first ate shrooms inCuernavaca, Mexico in the summer of 1960, obtained for him by hisanthropologist friend Frank Barron and a colleague who purchased a bag ofDerrumbe's (known in Oaxaca in the fifties and sixties as the 'landslide'mushroom) that grew along roadways net to landslides by sugar cane fields. In 1960, the only shroomers were Wasson and hiscolleagues and personal friends he met and the publishers of Life and Time magazine. The Wasson’sbecame good friends with Henry and Clair Booth Luce who were pro-marijuana inthe 1930s through the 1960s, and were the first to publish articles on drugsand drug use in America. Hooverand the FBI hated them for their frank drug articles that were unbiased reportsof the drugs that people liked and the honesty in their approach to presentingtruthful facts about such drugs. Theywere the ones who on May 13, 1957, published the story of, “Great Adventures inLife” Part III, “Mushrooms that Cause Strange Visions.” It was that article that led Tim Leary intowanting to experience the sacred medicinal powers of those very mushrooms hehad read about in Life Magazine (International Edition on June 10, 1957). At his villa in Mexico, Leary was visiting withfriends and as noted, one was a German anthropologist named Frank Barron. And Frank and a friend or maybe just Frankpurchased a bag of some gnarly collected and not stored properly, nasty lookingspecimens from an old Indian woman in the local village market place who wasnamed, 'Crazy Juana.' The shrooms werethan shared with Leary and his cohorts at his villa. in Cuernavaca. Tim ate 7 specimens of what he later learned were P. caerulescens (Murrill)Heim, a species originally identified and taxonomically named from Huntsville, Alabama inthe early 1920s and not found in America in the Southeast until themid-1970s. After Tim’s voyage on themushrooms, he was blown away. He was also drug-clueless Steven.
At the time, Leary hadvery little knowledge of drugs, period. At the end of his vacation, he was a changed man. His friend, Richard Alpert, who flew a smallPiper Cub or a Cessna plane, flew from Boston toMexicoto offer Tim a ride back home. On theplane,
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Tim told Alpert of hisexperience on mushrooms that led to Tim's famous statement, that he hadexperienced “the deepest most religious metaphor of his life.” Not sure if that is the actual quote as Iwould have to look it up to remember correctly, but it is pretty close toLeary's actual words.
That is when Alpert toldTim that there were in San Francisco, thesecults in the backrooms of bars and clubs in San Francisco where Jazz musicians had a cultthat smoked hashish under the barroom tables and in back rooms while having amusical jam. So in that reference, Learylearned of marijuana as a social tool. But he was afraid to try the great magic of God’s Ganja smoke as heoften later referred to it as.
But the mushrooms stoodout in Tim's consciousness for a while. After returning to Harvard, Tim learned of many drug studies beingconducted on campus and in off-campus psychiatric programs. In the late 1940s, a new drug, DMT wasman-made and created in a laboratory, along with DET. DMT was an instant 10 minute rush of a smokedhigh. Man made too. At that time in history Steven, humankind hadno idea that DMT occurred naturally in hundreds of plants all over the earth,especially in South American plants used in conjunction with the vines of Yage,Banisteriopsis Caapi and Ayahuasca concoctions. And 5-MEO-DMT was unknown, but is found inmany plants with DMT. That is why somewho consume psilocybian mushrooms feel that they had experienced during shroomlift-offs, or come-ons, some physical attributes that reminded them of DMTrushes. But then that is because theyare all active tryptamines.
Of course there weredifferences in the highs and in the time and length of a high. For instance, DMT last between ten to15-minutes and then a 20 minute pot high kind of come down. It is instant when smoked, yet at Harvard, peoplelike Alan Ginsberg were injecting DMT into the muscles of their legs above theknees, and many were unaware you could smoke it. They did learn that it was notactive orally, only intravenously. Laterit was learned thanks to Dick Schultes 13-14-years in the Amazon that whenmixed with harmala or harmaline from Caapi, Yage or Huasca vines it increasedthe high a thousand times fold like atropine does to those who are accidentallyadministered atropine for ibotenic intoxication. DET (diethyltrytamine, I love this one and itlasts 2-hours), was also man-made in a lab. It was a 2-hour high that was verysimilar in effect to the physical attribute effects of psilocine/psilocybinebut no hallucinations. And later Yopo,another South America drug that had both DMTand 5-MEO-DMT, a high that was instant when smoked, and lasted 3-5 minutes. Some say it is like instant death and thenone is reborn. It can be very scary if more than 5 milligrams are smoked atonce. The high last very shortly butthen there is a 15-20 minute pot-like high.
Also at the same time ofLeary’s triumphant return to Harvard in 1960 after eating the shrooms, he wasconstantly offered LSD. That drug scaredhim and he thought at one time that the CIA was attempting to assassinate himwith LSD so he would be put in an institution. So for about three years of praising the mushrooms, he refused LSD. He told his friends that the mushrooms couldbe used as an adjacent to psychoactive therapeutic practices in healing peoplewith mental disabilities. His firstorder was a 100 pill vial of psilocin from Sandoz Labs in Basel, Switzerlandmade by Dr. Albert Hofmann. Leary, likeWasson felt that shrooms should only be used by the gifted people in thehumanities of the world. Just likeelitist R. Gordon Wasson felt. Bothturned on many friends to the
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mushrooms and no one everthought that they belonged in the class of the narcotic or other psychedelicdrug classifications. That was becausethey were a fungus available in quantities in Mexico. Although, in 1958, two mycologists, AlexanderH. Smith of the University of Michigan and Dr. Rolf Singer of the Chicago FieldMuseum of Natural History and the University of Chicago published the firstmonograph on Psilocybe species in the Pacific Northwest and a few of theMexican varieties. It was their twochapters on the Aztec history and taxonomy of species that all field guides,including Ghouled’s bad one, my first book, Paul Stamets first book, Everett Kardeland Leonard Enos all wrote out books from using their generic macroscopicidentifications for our guides and Singer and Smith’s 1958 100 pages inMycologia Journal vol. 50 was filled with horrible errors because no one reallyknew much about them except Wasson, and his versions were definitely one-sidedin their approach to the mushrooms and what they really could be.
Getting back to AndrewWeil’s reporting of Leary and his weekend parties at Harvard with drugs, girlsand students, was a strange twist. Today, everyone knows that Weil is the Gupta of Alternativemedicines. But Weil’s reporting ofLeary’s activities on Harvard Campus with drugs and students led to Leary beingfired for his refusal to stop giving drugs to undergraduates. The excuse used to fire Leary was somewhattruthful in that Leary was laid off for failure to attend his lectures due tohis drug activities. Four months later,Richard Alpert was fired for his not stopping the use of drugs with students. At the time, Richard, who later changed hisname to Baba Ram Dass and wrote his famous, “Be Here Now” book, told the newsmedia, “Imagine, I was fired from Harvard for providing students with thegreatest educational experience of their lives.”
What I found mostinteresting is that the first 100 pills at 2mg each per tablet took ten to 15or more tabs to be the equivalent of an Aztec ceremonial dose and that forthree years Leary while praising the mushrooms and their properties in theMarch Chapel experiments and the Concord Massachusetts Reformatory for men drugtherapy experiments, was still afraid to do acid. By 1962 Leary had turned onover 500 people to psilocybin mushrooms. And then he tried LSD. Afterthat, he rarely invoked the mushrooms publically and later in his revisedbiography, Flash Backs (the original was his High Priest), he finally noted hislove of the great god, ‘Ganja.’ And also the sexual physical side ofmushrooms. Although at Millbrook heconstantly had sex while on LSD with all kinds of female colleagues andstudents as well. That first batch of 100pills he ordered from Sandoz to use in a therapeutic manner at Harvard had beenall given out within two days of him receiving the vial of pills fromSandoz. Leary, at the time, felt that hecould not give this drug to anyone unless he himself and his friends whom hewanted to be on his research team had tried them first. Albert Hofmann did the same with the shroomsat Sandoz after two years of chemical analytical research failed at finding theactive ingredients in the mushrooms, Hofmann then decided to try themhimself. He did so before he could usethem and after his trip, he invited his colleagues in the lab to alsoexperience the magic of the shrooms. Then he knew that they worked in the same neurotransmitter of serotonineand so he was than able to determine their chemical makeup and properties asalkaloids. So there was a circle offriends, all shrooming that were of a higher educational standard than theaverage America. Soon
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thousands of studentsventured into Mexicoin search of Marìa Sabina to hold a velada with her magic shrooms. Soon the Mexican Federales began theexpulsion of thousands of long-haired-hippie types and students out of Mexico back to America, making sure to give themall haircuts before they returned home. And also later Timothy Leary and hisfoundation were also kicked out of Mexico for similarshenanigans. And thus the errors inidentification and the stories of the mushrooms blossomed across theEarth. And today, thanks to many shroomwebsites and stupid peoples blogs, or like the book by Andy Letcher, or thebadly written field guide by Joseph Weninger, “Psychoactive Mushrooms of thePacific Northwest,” was published by a young adult who only relied on everyoneelse’s works, including mine without listing a single one of my publications inhis book. And I have been considering,thanks to some friends, suing him for the name infringement which is almost thesame as my, “Magic Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.” I also notice others photos, one whom I amgoing to inform the photographer who will contact the kid and demand paymentfor a copyrighted photo used in the Joseph persons book without permission. Years ago, Guzman loaned me photos to use inan article and book I wrote on Mushroom Names. Jim Jacobs, once a good friend wrote me so, “You are the person stealingmy copyrighted photos for your book. He charged me $50.00 a photo for two picturesof his that Guzman allowed me to use freely, but they were Jim’s photos and hewas credited as photographer in my book. I paid him the money. Stamets paid me to use my photos in his book.Gartz paid shit and stole a lot of my photos he uses to sell in Germany notthinking I am aware of him doing so. SoI know he noted Jim Jacobs name, but his acknowledgment pages just says thanksto all who contributed. He did note mein a reference he cited as listing my website’s disclaimer page, a page thatdoes not exist on my site at all. Somaybe a letter to Jacobs will have Jacobs write to the Denverpublisher’s, “Outskirts Press of Parker, Colorado.
And Andy Weil was soonpresented with a grant of $150,000 dollars from the WHO (World HealthOrganization) to travel to Mexicoand to Central and South America to actuallydo such drugs and then write about them in prestigious journals. So all the collected papers published on bothlegal and illegal drugs that appeared in journals such as the Journal ofEconomic Botany, Lloydia, Journal of Psychedelic Drugs and other journalsbecame a book called, “The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon.” And in that book, Weil’s three articles onmushrooms, previously published in the two above noted journals was againpublished a third time and this time the tales of his adventures in seeking outaltered states hit the world market in that field. And at the same time he also contributedarticles on coffee and those who labored cheaply at a few cents a pound forcoffee beans to sell to rich white businessmen the chance to sit in Americanand foreign restaurants and give all those who love to drink coffee, an all youcan drink coffee price of .05 cents a cup for all day. Another article was titled, “Is Sugar moredangerous than Heroin, An article titled, the Green vs. the White, aboutcocaine vs. coca leaves, one on Mangos, Chili bean and Chili Bean eatingcontests in Mesoamerica, one on Gastric Lavage (vomiting to cleans one’s bodily fluids back to their natural states inone’s stomach cavities, Another on staring at the sun during an eclipse withoutthe need for those special slithered glasses, and even an article on UriGeller’s bending spoons in his bare hands with little ease. The book was a success. Later Weil became America’s real
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health guru and expert inAlternative Medicines. A long way fromsomeone who loved and probably still loves healing plants as much as he didwhen given a grant to go study the some of the very drugs that he helpedTimothy Leary get fired for at Harvard years before. Eventually, Andrew Weil basically overtoppled health nut Guru Richard Simmons’ exercised overweight Americans back tonormal weight and body size.
But Weil also had errorsin his book and three articles. Hereferred to the Psilocybe stuntzii,not yet officially named species as being Psilocybecyanescens. He noted that it had alocal epithet as the ‘Washington Blue Veil’ mushroom. A name only used by him on time in thatpublication and maybe in his Harvard Botanical Museum Leaflet” article (Weil,1977). Weil also noted that when he andothers ate Panaeolus subbalteatus, that it was apparently the cause of muchstomach discomfort when collected in rotted composted hay stack heaps andcompost piles mixed with horse manure, stable shavings and hickory nut shellsor dolomite (crushed oyster shells) to be used for fertilizers. Unfortunately even my colleague Dr. TjakkoStijve in a bk. Rev. on my bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi wrote that he wassurprised that Amsterdam, when shrooms were legal til’ Dec. 2 of 2008, thatPanaeolus subbalteatus was a popular mushroom sold in smart shops because ofthe fact it caused stomach discomforts, and again here was an honest chemistand scholar who relied on a 1975 paper published on Andrew Weil and his friendsbad experience eating Panaeolus subbalteatus, a mistake carried in manysubsequent journal and news item publications over the years. In my new paper on Chemical References Irefer to as the Allen List, I put to rest many errors from previouspublications and asked those who read and later write about these mushrooms,stop carrying the errors of others who came before them. There was another subject in your latestissue but at the moment I cannot find where I placed your new issue. So I will respond later. You may print this info if you like, minusthe Soma/Amanita content.
Weil, Andrew. 1975. Mushroom hunting in Oregon: Part 1-4. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol.7(1):89-102. January-March. A beautiful narrative regarding Dr. Weil's search inOregon forthe elusive "liberty cap" mushroom, Psilocybe semilanceata. Weil alsoprovides a beautiful narrative on mushroom hunting for Chanterelles and otheredible species.
Weil, Andrew. 1975-1976. A mushroom omelette. Journal of Altered States ofConsciousness vol. 2(2):123-132. Bayview Publishing Co., Inc. The thrill of the Mexican mushroom hunt and Dr.Weil's personal entheogenic mushroom experience is put forth very poetically.
Weil, Andrew. 1977. The use of psychoactivemushrooms in the Pacific Northwest. Botanical Museum Leaflets of Harvard vol.25(5):131-148. June 30. The first comprehensive review concerning thewidespread illicit recreational use of psilocybian mushrooms in Oregon and Washington.
Weil, Andrew. 1980a. Mushroom Hunting in Oregon. See next three entries. These are from earlier articles on shroomsand were published in the book listed below as they were in the three journalslisted below. And above.
Weil, Andrew 1980b. Mushrooms I. Marriage of the Sun and Moon:43-57. HoughtonMifflin Company. Boston. Also in: Journal of Altered States of Consciousness vol.2(2). 1975-1976; and in: Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol. 7(1).
Weil, Andrew. 1980c. Mushrooms II. Marriage of the Sun and Moon:58-72. HoughtonMifflin Company. Boston. Also in: Journal of Altered States of Consciousnessvol. 2(2). 1975-1976; and in: Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol. 7(1).
Weil, Andrew. 1980d. Mushrooms III. Marriage of the Sun and Moon:73-86. Houghton
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Mifflin Company. Boston. Also in: Journal of Altered States of Consciousness vol. 2(3).1975-1976; and in: Journal of Psychedelic Drugs vol. 7(1).
Wasson, R. Gordon. 1957. Seeking the Magic Mushrooms: Mushrooms that Cause StrangeVisions. Life Magazine, May 13.
[QUOTE by JWA ISFINISHED HERE]
Have a shroomy day Stevenand please be in good health,
John -------------------------------
Reporting False Posts
It goes without saying, when we report a False Post here, ifthe poster finds out about it, they go back and delete out the said post. No matter, we all now know the truth, and ifwe ever see such again, we will know not to believe it. If you read a post somewhere about mushrooms,and you think it is false, email the information to floridamycology@cs.com
We will check it out. You know how they say “You can’t believe everything you see on theinternet”? Here’s proof so beware:
1Gal+ Moonshine From 5Gal Water + 15Lb Sugar + 2Cups Corn Meal. A post by “aztec”. Poster claims that “Methanol” must beremoved. Not only with the corn meal methodbut with all other fruits and whole grains used to make mash. Poster says to take about 10 to 20 ml fromfirst run and toss it because in contains Methanol. This is False. No Methanol is ever produced by this method. Methanol is “Methyl” alcohol. Also known as “Wood Spirit” or WoodAlcohol. It was originally obtained bythe destructive distillation of wood, now usually made from hydrogen and carbonmonoxide or carbon dioxide, also by oxidation of hydrocarbons. Fact is, I always thought the first smallamounts you ran off, were the best. People have been brewing since before Christ. If these methods produced Methanol, which inno way could ever happen, we sure would have heard about it by now. ---------------------------------------------
When One Gets Sick From Eating Mushrooms
In 2001 my friend and I bought these boomers and we all ate1/8th. The trip was too intense for my friends who didn't know what was up ordown. I sat in a chair and just stared off into space as I experienced thewildest visions I'd ever got off shrooms. The next day me and every single oneof my friends had to go to the hospital, every one that took the shrooms wereviolently ill. It was like a flu times ten and when my fever rose to 105 I wasdelusion and just not right.!my rents had to rush me to the hospital. I was thelast to get there as my friends were already there. For the next two weeks wehad fluid in our lungs and were diagnosed with sever pnomonia. What happened?Was it the shrooms them selfs? I never asked if they were picked or grown.Could it have been something growin on the shroom? Whatever it was it almostkilled us. However ill never forget those visuals. I'm lookin for someplausable answers
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Symptoms sound either from bacteria or virus. I would ask if they were dried but you state 1/8 taken, so I am thinking theywere fresh. When you dry mushrooms, you want to do so in a matter ofhours and not for several days. Mushrooms left in a warm moist environmentfor several days is asking for trouble. This is what bacteria and viruslove. I have always suggested drying mushrooms with a hair dryer set onlow. It is the warm moving air that dries them out in hours instead ofdays. Heat should not be above 190 F as this is bad for theactives. If fresh, I would think that some how they became contaminatedeither by how they were kept, or where they were grown at. slp/fmrc
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Psilocybe Species And Their Quantitive Analysis OfActives
Species Psilocybin % Psilocin % Baeocystin %
Ps. Azurenscens 1.78 .38 .348
Ps. baeocystis .851 .59 .101
Ps. bohemica 1.35 .11 .019
Ps. cubensis .64 .61 .029
Ps. cyanescens .86 .37 .04
Ps. hoogshagenii .61 .101 none
Ps. semilanceata .97 .02 .37
Ps. stuntzii .358 .126 .018
Ps. tampanensis .69 .33 none
Ps. weillii .62 .271 .051
Above was taken from fresh Pileus (caps)
Following was taken from dried samples
Ps. mexicana (Pileus) .3 trace nottested
Ps. mexicana (Sclerotia) .25 trace nottested
Themushrooms listed are all in the Genus Psilocybe. There are many others inthis Genus. I only know of one Psilocybe that does not producePsilocybin. That mushroom is Psilocybe montana. There are hundreds ofother mushrooms in other Genera that produce Psilocybin. None of thesemushrooms are labeled "DEADLY". Many field guides list thesemushrooms as poisonous. This is because the compound Psilocybin is atoxin. I myself place these mushrooms as poisonous. However, theLD/50 system places Psilocybin as the least toxic of all the knownpsychoactives. Caffeine and THC are more deadly than Psilocybin. Conocybe, Gymnopilus and Panaeolus are just a few of the other Genera that alsohave species of mushrooms that produce Psilocybin. If correctlyidentified, none of these mushrooms will cause death. Years ago, a guysaid he did the math on how many Psilocybe cubensis you would have to eat inorder to cause death. He came up with this: A 145 lb. adult wouldhave to eat 235 pounds of these fresh mushrooms. slp/fmrc =============================
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PsilocybinContent Cap verses Stalk, Mycelium
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In 1964, Catalforno and Tyler published their study of theability of Ps. cubensis to produce Psilocybin in submerged liquidculture. Catalforno had previouslycultivated two other psilocybian species, Psilocybe cyanescens and Psilocybepelliculosa, but these produced no detectable Psilocybin in liquidculture. Concentrations of up to 1.03%Psilocin were reported in the mycelium of Ps. cubensis grown in potatodextrose liquid medium. This study wasperformed by varying the nutrients in a potato dextrose liquid medium fortifiedwith trace elements. It was found that Ps.cubensis mycelium produced its greatest amount of Psilocybin on theseventh day after inoculation and the largest amount of mycelium by the ninth.
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Caps - Stalks - Poop..........A funny story. Many years ago,early 80's. No Names to protect. These two guys went to a party being held at Pensacola Beach. When they knocked on the door,this huge animal of a man opened the door and said "What?". They saidthat they were there to go to the party. Huge asked them what did they bring.Did they have Pot? Did they have coke? No, we don't have anything they said.Then you can't come in and shut the door. Feeling down and out, the two guyswent mushroom hunting and found about 1/3 grocery bag. They then went back andknocked on the party door again. Huge answered the door again. Look what wegot! They showed the large paper bag of shrooms. Are they the Magic Ones? Theysure are. Come on in. The two guys went into the kitchen and started to make avery large batch of tea for everyone. As they cut off the bottom of the shroomsthat had cow poop still on them, they placed these cut poop bottoms in aseparate pot, making a special batch of tea.......for Huge.....grin. Funnything was, Huge got off just as good as everyone else......and he nevercomplained about the taste. So, don't even throw away the bottom of stalks thathave poop on them, or actually compost. slp/fmrc
Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA) or Malt Extract Agar (MEA) can be used toestablish agar cultures from spores, mycelium culture, or a cloned piece ofsterile flesh from the mushroom. Transfer agar culture to sterilized grain (barley or rye) jars. Shake jars every 4 days to spread mycelium. Hold 70 degrees F for these steps. Once jars are fully taken, the grain is usedto inoculate a moist sawdust-small chip mixture made of a hardwood like oak,birch, or alder. This mixture can beused to inoculate large outside chip beds, or used to fruit the mushroom. Case the chips with a potting soil/strawmixture. To induce pins, drop thetemperature to 45 - 50 degrees F. Oncepins form, hold at 70 degrees F for good mushroom development, and use 10 hourlight cycle.
Does Psilocybecubensis (Manna) Have Any Nutritional Value
Itis a known fact that mushrooms hold many vitamins and nutrients. I haveseen many test results that back this. I have never seen this test andthe results was “Nothing At All Found”. However,I cannot recall ever seeing a breakdown on what Ps. cubensis mayoffer. This is probably because of legal restrictions on thismushroom. Most who run these tests, do not have
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aDEA Permit that allows them to have this mushroom in the first place. Ican say, I do not see how this mushroom would not produce any of these saidbenefits. As for manna, I have rather exhausted this subject. I forone, cannot see that one could live on this mushroom as its only source offood. I mean, good Lord, how could one even operate? But then,perhaps after several days, one would develop a tolerance, to where they werenot affected like the first time consuming. There were supposedly,samples of this manna placed in the Ark. What manna was, could be answered if these samples were ever gathered up andproperly identified. I have always, said with a grin, that if manna wasPs. cubensis, or some other psychoactive mushroom, this would explain why theywere lost for 40 years in the desert. 40 years is long enough to crossany desert on Earth. slp/fmrc
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PotPlants: Hermaphrodite, having bothsexes
By Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
I saw a question about this subject, wondering if there wassuch a thing as a pot plant with both sexes. This was my reply for those of you who might have interest in this subject.
Back in the early 70’s, I knew this guy who was a veryaccomplished pot grower. He went everyyear to a place he owned in Trinidad and grewhis crop. He explained his system likethis.
The XX chromosome is the female. The XY chromosome is the male. By limiting the amount of direct light aplant gets each day, by about half, it causes the plant to express both femaleflowers and male pollen sacks, the hermaphrodite. He would raise the plant upside along abuilding that would block the light. When the plant would be on the east side of the building, this workedbest. This allowed the plant to only getthe first half day of sunlight. He greworiginal female plants having only XX. Because of the short light, this female plant would develop malesacks. But these male parts, coming outon the female plant, would only be XX. When the plant would pollinate itself, all the seeds would be XX. There would be no XY seeds. This meant that all the seeds made on thisplant, would only grow female plants. These are the seeds he would use next year, never having any maleplants.
Since then, I have talked to people who have had plants in ashaded area instead of out in full sunlight, or along side of a building. This was done to help keep them hidden. They said they saw these plants produce bothsexes.
Now male plants will also do this very thing, only when theymake the female flowers, these flowers will have XY. All the seeds from this plant will onlyproduce males. -----------------------------------
It OnlyTakes A Quick 0.0025 Flash Of Light To Cause Pinning In Ps. cubensis Document
The Effect of Light uponBasidiocarp Initiation in Psilocybe cubensis
E. R. Badham
Mycologia, Vol. 72, No. 1. (Jan. -Feb., 1980), pp. 136-142.
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Formation of mushroom primordia in Psilocybecubensis occurred only
when cultures were illuminated. Short durations of light(0.0025 sec of
xenon-arc flash) were sufficient for initiation.Light-induced initiation was
saturated at a dose of 0.345 x lo4 ergs/cma at 460 nm. UV and blue
wavelengths of 370, 440, and 460 nm were the besteffective. Green and
red wavelengths greater than 510 nm were ineffective.
If you are planningon checking this out, remember that you must work in complete darkness whenstarting or transferring any cultures. If you have light to see what you are doing, you have caused the neededflash. All your work must be done undertotal darkness to prevent any pinning. slp/fmrc
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Psilocybe allenii
A NewSpecies of the Genus Psilocybe
Discoveredby Mr. John Allen
SEM Photograph of Spores
BorovičkaJ., Rockefeller A., Werner P.G. (2012): Psilocybeallenii – a new bluing
species from the Pacific Coast, USA. – CzechMycol. 64(2): 181–195.
From Mr. John Allen: I will be posting in a few days about 60photos out of about 600 on my Facebook Psilocybe group there. 12/8/12
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Mushrooms That Need Casing To Cause Primorida,Pins
Different species of mushrooms, require different things to cause pins. Onegroup of these mushrooms require casing. Psilocybe cubensis requires casing.What happens with this group of mushrooms that need casing is this. Themycelium continues to grow as long as there are proper nutrients. When thismycelium enters into an area where there are no nutrients, it throws themycelium into a shock. It thinks that it has run out of feeding ground, andchanges its mode into producing mushrooms to continue the nextgeneration. This same thing will happen to mycelium growing on grain ingrain jars. If the mycelium grows into an area of water on the side ofthe jar, it will throw the mycelium into this shock because the water is not asrich as the grain. This same thing can happen with other types of grows.
Out in the wild, this is what happens with Psilocybe cubensis. The spores areon the grass out in the pasture. A cow comes by and lays its cow pie. The areaof grass underneath the pie, forms a very rich layer of special compost. Thisis where the spores first germinate and grow. Then, the pie itself turns intocompost. This pie compost is not as rich as the grass area it has been growingon. Then comes a rain. The mycelium moves up into the pie. The mycelium goesinto shock thinking it has run out of food, and starts pinning. Now the cow piewill support mycelium growth, but it is a long way from being as good as thegrass area. Also, some sections of the pie provide good growth, there are otherareas that do not. This is why the mycelium will grow and fruit on just a pie.
This is the sole purpose of the casing, to cause this shock. When the myceliumhas been used to growing on say, sterile grains, it goes into this shock whenit moves up into the casing which has no food for it.
I once did an experiment where I took only a small amount of casing, and placedit on top of the grain mycelium. About a teaspoon full. Whathappened was, the mycelium in this area, pinned. Because it was the onlyarea that pinned, the huge area of mycelium feed only this one smallspot. It produced one, very large mushroom. slp/fmrc
AdditionalInformation: It is normal for the casingto become taken fairly well before pins are noted. The casing should lack allneeded nutrients. I, for many years have just used potting soil, or just somepoor dirt from outside.
In areas that are warm (when lowest temps are about 70F, just take the cake orproject out of the jar. Make sure it is fully taken. You don't want to see anyuntaken grain. This will invite contamination. Good mycelium growth will keepit out. Then, just pick a good spot somewhere outside. Dig out a hole in theground, Put the cake in the hole. Cover it back up with dirt, about 3/4 inch.This cover of dirt will act as the casing. Keep moist. One morning, and manymore after, you will have a nice surprise. Also a good outside stealthfruiting, if hidden right. slp/fmrc
Irecently posted at another site, a reply to the following post: Psilocybecubensis form primordia readily without casing and fruits directly froma substrate. You're an awesome dude man and I respect your work andcontributions to this forum. However, I really don't know where you're comingfrom on this???
My Reply: It is just not my investigation into the subject, it is thecollaboration of all commercial growers involved with this technique. If casingwas not important to the development of these kinds of mushrooms, evenAgaricus bisporus, growers would not invest such a high overhead in thepurchase and application of casings. In all my years of growing, Psilocybecubensis fruits best with a casing. It has been the practice of growerssince the beginning. Yeah, you might get some mushrooms, pins from certainareas that differ from others enough to spark pinning, but they will never belike the ones grown from casing. You go ahead and don't use a casing. Yourfruits will always suffer and never be as plentiful or pristine. Sorry youdisagree. You disagree with at least $800,000.00 a year crop with thesetechniques used for many decades. With more years of experience, you will see.Its not just my opinion. It is the way it is. That is where I am comingfrom......grin. slp/fmrc
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This group of mushrooms that need this "shock" to start pinning,probably have many other types of shock that throws this group of mushroomsinto pinning. Casing seems to be one of the more desired methods. But this factremains.....the area of mycelium that undergoes traumatic change, somethingsignals the mycelium to start pinning because its death is close and mushroomsneed to be produced now, to continue the species. This is the main theory ofcasing mushrooms. Mushroom projects may see mushrooms appear without a casing.But one thing is for sure, the mycelium in the areas where mushrooms are forming,is going through some type of shock. This could be a long list of things:Temperature changes, a spot in the media where the pH is way off, a section ofwater that lacks nutrients, even areas of grain that are not cooked as well asothers, can throw the mycelium into this shock. So, if you are getting greatmushrooms without any casing, you are doing something else that renders a shockto the mycelium. Don't change anything and you might get by just fine, withoutany casing. smile.
Just like the many other species of mushrooms that have different Primoridafactors. One of these groups are mushrooms that pin because of a drop intemperature. Say you are working with a species that requires a drop to 40 Fdegree temperature to start pins, one of the colder weather loving mushrooms.Now without doing this, you are not going to get proper Primorida. This groupof mushrooms may even be running out of food to eat, but without thistemperature drop, nothing happens. I guess you could also bring in the fact of differentvariations within the same species. Variations that have been cultivated forlong periods of time, might react somewhat different. Even different collectedstrains from the wild might have their own tolerances.
To answer about what part of the pie is good.......
When you look at a cow pie, you many times see bits of corn and other matterthat is not digested well. Most of the pie is digested well, but there areother areas that are not. These areas do not provide proper nutrients. Thissignals the shock.
Green Grass Compost........
The best way to make compost for mushrooms is to use freshly cut green grassand fresh cow manure. After this mixture has went through composting stage, itis the best. It is the same way with the cow pie. That layer of fresh greengrass under the pie, goes through a composting stage. This thin layer ofcompost made from the green grass and the cow pie, is more nutritious than anyother thing the mycelium will find to grow on. slp/fmrc
The untangling of the Archangels Names will do much topromote a new understanding of religion and bring to baring the in-equity heldagainst practices of First Amendment –The Right To Your Own ReligiousPractices.
For a long time now humanity has wondered at what role thePsychedelics have played in Religion. Itis an absolutely fair question because psychedelics induce visionary states andreligious experiences. Mean while bookslike the Quran, Veda’s and the Holy Bible are filled with people having visionand religious
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experiences… Thecorrelations are too common and too evident to ignore any longer. Here is the blessed evidence which is tooover whelming to overlook – assuming you have eyes to see such great heights.
There are four major Angels who surround God in today’sworld and in yesterday’s religious systems – they are called Archangels. Once there were five but as you may know –one fell. Lucifer the ‘light barer’whose name is the “Snake Plant” or Morning Glory.
The four Angels who remain with God and who are here forhumanities protection as ministeringspirits each have a name “plant” or “plants” by which they can becalled. Without further ado it gives usgreat pleasure to introduce the Archangels!
The ArchangelMichael:
Michael’s name plant is Marijuana. He is “The most prominent and greatest angelin Christian, Hebrew and Islamic lore. His name in Hebrew means “who is like God” or “who is as God.” When you smoke or eat Cannabis you areactively calling him into your temple. It is Michael who is rallying God’s angels to himself and wage war withthe “Masters of the Universe” or fallen angels who are causing such trouble forhumankind. Already his fire is burningaround the earth and State’s Rights are being established in Coloradoand Washingtonin his name. Here are some descriptions of Michael takenfrom the “Encyclopedia of Angels” by Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
As everyone knows the first time you smoke pot you don’tnotice anything out of the ordinary. Rudolph Steiner points out in his research that “Michael does not work somuch for the initiate as for those who wish to understand spiritualinvestigations.” According to Steiner“human evolution has been under the guidance of Michael as the Spirit of theAge since 1879.”
Michael’s numerical reference is 420, his universal symbolis the Sativa Leaf and his symbolic sea shell is the Sand Dollar. “Because Michael won (will win) the battleover the Dragon…, the spiritual will more and more lay hold of humanity, andspiritual truth will take root among men.”
“The Yalqut Genesis and the Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer say that itis Michael who fights with JACOB at Peniel(emphasis mine). When God asks Michael,“What have you done to my first-born son?” Michael answers, “I shrank a sinewin your honor.” God says, “It is good. Henceforth, until the end of time, you shallhave charge of Israeland his posterity! For the prince ofangels should guard the prince of men; fire should guard fire, and head shouldguard head!”
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According to Islamic Lore (and we rediscovered Marijuanafrom the Arabs) “Michael’s wings are emerald-green and covered with saffronhairs…” (ibin; 1996 pages128-130).
Archangel Gabriel:
Gabriel’s name plant is the Poppy. He is “one of the three principal angels ofChristianity, and figures prominently in Judaic, Christian and Islamicangelology.” His name means “hero ofGod” or “the mighty one” in Hebrew. “Gabriel is the angel of revelation, wisdom, mercy, redemption andpromise. He sits at the left hand ofGod.
In the Old Testament he is named as a frequent visitor ofDaniel, producing prophetic visions of apocalyptic proportion (Daniel 8:16,9:21). Gabriel’s name is an incense thatwhen smoked or otherwise prepared produces states of relaxation and calm – aperfect state to be in when vision of apocalyptic nature are to beencountered.
“In the New Testament, Gabriel’s name is given toZechariah…” Who was the high priest ofthe time and was designated to burn “incense” to the Most High alone in thetemple. Accordingly Gabriel says “I amGabriel who stand(s) in God’s presence when he announces the coming birth ofJohn the Baptist (Luke 1:26).” It isalso attributed to Gabriel the angelic visitation of Mary where he announcesthe coming birth of Jesus.
Opium’s milk like nature is thought to be the kingdom ofheaven’s ‘land of milk and honey’ – where “milk” refers to the milk of thePoppy. “Gabriel also figures prominentlyin ISLAMIC ANELOLOGY, where he is equated with the Holy Spirit.” A peace that surpasses understanding isrecorded in the Psalms of David. It wasGabriel who dictated the Koran to MUHAMMAD. Islamic theosophy indicates that Gabriel is the Angel of Knowledge andRevelation and to this day it is the Arab nations (Afghanistan) that produce themajority of the raw Opium for the world.
“Gabriel’s is a mild and loving gaze, his gesture one ofblessing.” His symbolic name is theAcanthus Leaf which is really a stylized Opium leaf and not Acanthus atall. Most ancient temples were decoratedwith Gabriel’s Acanthus leaves on their column capitals and are commonly calledCorinthian Capitals today. His symbolicseashell is the Sea Urchin and the Thistle as well as the Pomegranate are alsoattributed to him.
taken from the“Encyclopedia of Angels” by Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
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Archangel Raphael:
Raphael’s name plants are the healing herbs typified byMandrake. “Raphael is one of theprincipal angels in Judeo-Christian angelologies, accorded the rank ofarchangel. Raphael’s name originatesfrom the Hebrew rapha, which meanshealer or doctor, thus Raphael is “the shining one who heals”; also “themedicine of God.” It is not by accidentthat the ancient Latin doctors titled the main storage tank of Serotonin the raphe nuclei.
“He is entrusted with the physical well-being of earth andits human inhabitants, and is said to be the friendliest of the angels. He is the angel of the evening winds,guardian of the Tree of Life, and the angel of prayer, peace, joy, light andlove.”
According to several rabbinic sources, Raphael gave a pearlor book bound in sapphires to Noah which contains all knowledge of the stars,the art of healing and the mastery of demons.
As the angel who watches over humanities health and wellbeing – he is the perfect candidate for healing herbs, which are too many toname. Golden Seal, Garlic and Ginsengbeing just a few.
The quotes about Raphael were taken from the “Encyclopediaof Angels” by Rosemary Ellen Guiley – page 168.
Archangel Uriel:
Uriel’s name plant is Wine and spirits of alcohol. When the Bible makes reference to “Wine andSpirits” it isn’t the spirits of hard alcohol as the distiller wasn’t yetinvented. Spirits means those “plants”which uplift our spirit.
Uriel “in noncanonical literature is one of the mostimportant angels, described variously as an archangel, a seraph and acherub. The name “Uriel” probably means“Fire of God” or “God is my light.””
Uriel is easy to remember because his name rhymes withurinal – as in the song ‘pissing the night away’ or the English term ‘pissed’for drunk with the spirits of alcohol.
It is also true that “Uriel is portrayed as a stern andpunishing angel. The prophet ENOCH saidthat he is head of the seven archangels and presides over Tartarus orHell. Here we have only to recall thewords of Peter Tosh’s song “Sinner Man” – “You drink addiction pain and laughall along that day…”
“He also appears as a “benign angel” who attacks Moses fornot observing the
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circumcision rite of his son. Uriel served as a guide to both Enoch andNoah. In
the Prayer of Joseph, part of the PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, Urielstates, “I have come down to earth to make my dwelling among men, and I AMcalled Jacob by name” (ibid, 195).
“Uriel reveals heavenly mysteries to Ezra and answersweighty questions (in vino es veritas) about evil and justice. He serves as a guide ot the luminaries.” He also appears in the qumrun scrolls, ‘thisangel is set apart as one of the four leaders of the “War of the Sons of Lightand the Sons of Darkness,’ The human warriors are given exact instructions onwho is to fight where, with weapons described carefully. “There are four subdivisions, and each is tohave the name of his archangel inscribed on his shield.”
Descriptions in quotes taken from the “Encyclopedia ofAngels” by Rosemary Ellen Guiley pages 195-196.
The Angel of theLord who came in the form of God’s unique Son is Lord of all of theseangels – and his name is theName. We call it the Psilocybin(Mushrooms) but it was know by Jesus as the Heavenly Manna and to the Apostlesas the Hidden Manna. That name is theFountain of Vitality. Mushrooms and Religion Editor
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Other WaysTo Save Mushrooms Than Drying
Frozen magic tea will last for several years. Best way. Sayyou have a gallon of tea, frozen. Let it set out until the needed amount hasturned to liquid. Pour this off and replace remaining frozen tea back in thefreezer. I did an article on this many years ago. I had a conversation withShulgin about this. He agreed. It should last for many years and still beactive.
Most mushrooms will not freeze good when done fresh. Whenthey thaw out, you just end up with liquid goop. But, you can cook any mushroomup, the way you like them. Then, the cooked mushrooms can be frozen and takenout at a later date. Warm them back up and they will be just fine. slp/fmrc .
Using Honey to preserve Active Mushrooms. This can be used for short termstorage, not longer than about 6 months. Never use fresh mushrooms as thewater content in them corrupts the shrooms and honey. Use driedmushrooms. This will work fine for a few months, but after 6 months, theactives start to disappear. Mytests were done on Cotton Honey, two others were with Clover Honey. Tests on Liberty Caps showed active for twoyears. Mushrooms were left in thehoney. For best and longest storage,freeze the tea.
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To hold specimens in a collection.........First, the specimen must be dried,cracker dry. Then, the complete and whole specimen should be stored in acanning jar big enough to hold it without breaking it. I like to use ahairdryer to dry all of my mushrooms. I suspend it over the mushrooms Ihave in a container. Set the dryer on low and move the mushrooms aroundevery hour or so. This drying method also dries the mushrooms veryfast. This helps hold color and cuts back on other contaminants. Make sure the sealing lid on the canning jar seals the jar. Tighten downthe band good. Under these conditions, the specimen will stay in goodcondition for many years. You can also place specimens in Ethanolalcohol. This is the same thing as Grain alcohol. Use the highestproof you can find. Completely cover the specimen. Once again, usea good canning jar as before. If you notice the alcohol level drops, theproject is not completely sealed. Tryanother sealing lid and put the alcohol level back where it should be. slp/fmrc
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Urine Drinking and Amanita Muscaria
I saw a post atanother site where someone was looking for information on Urine Drinking andits practice with Amanita muscaria. Questions were like, how do you prepare it so you can drink it, its sogross, and other things that would pertain to the drinking ofurine.....grin. I have done articles onthis in the past Journals FMRC publishes, but have never discussed the strangeaffect this mushroom has on someone's urine, after they have eaten Amanitamuscaria.
This mushroomcontains Muscarine. This is a bad toxin,but it is not present in large amounts. Some species of Inocybe have large amounts and these can kill you. I know of no documented deaths from Amanitamuscaria toxins, but have read one report where a patient did die fromrespiratory problems. I did not readanywhere that there was an exact identification on the said mushroom. Even in small amounts, Muscarine will cause"drools" so bad, you will just about dry up. It is not a good state to be in.
The old commonpractice went like this. Several peoplewould get together and each would eat one large Amanita muscaria. Just the one mushroom did not deliver traitsfrom toxins that affect the person too bad. A goat sack or some other type vessel, was used to save all the urineall the people would release.
All of the mushroomis digested and metabolized.....except one compound. Here plays the unique thing about thismushroom's active "Muscimol". Ibotenic acid, among other things, is also listed in the Merck Index asa "flavor enhancer", it changes to Muscimol, the active. All the other compounds, bad or good, aredestroyed, but Muscimol stays in its original form. This is most atypical. The captured urine is sterile, contains noMuscarine or other bad toxins, but, contains Muscimol. Hence, one can reach much higher stateswithout any worry of bad toxins. Muscimol, The Reg Vada that speaks of Soma, and the drinking of this"active" urine all confirms the fact that Amanita muscaria is theSoma. No other
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plant can fit allthese clues, and be a rootless, bloomless plant.
The best way I knowto change Ibotenic Acid to Muscimol is by sunlight. Certain waves of UV cause this change. These mushrooms are known to vary, mushroomto mushroom. I have always suggestedthat the most powerful Amanita muscaria are the ones foundin the most sunlight areas. If you areafter the Ibotenic, collect the ones in the most shaded areas, and keep awayfrom any sunlight. I have never read anyreliable document that "heating" Ibotenic Acid, caused it to changeinto Muscimol. Only very small amounts,if any.
Just a quick noteon the value of these two compounds. Ihave an old SIGMA Chemical Co. Catalog. It lists Ibotenic Acid ...... 1mg $73.45 and Muscimol......1mg $15.45. While checking I see Muscarine listed..........1mg $17.75 for the cheapest of two types. Now keep in mind, there are 1,000mg in oneGRAM! Multiply 73 by 1,000 and you get$73,000.00! Now this is what it sellsfor. What you can sell will be lower butthe fact still remains, this is some very valuable compounds found in amushroom. I am sure SIGMA has their upto date price quotes at their website. Go check it out. You also mightwant to check out FMRC's CD ROM "FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMNCHROMATOGRAPHY"
This special method of chromatography allowsyou to separate and isolate mushroom compounds. "There is a certainadsorption sequence which allows substances to displace themselves from eachother. This method of Column Chromatography uses this natural law. When aspecial solution is filtered through an adsorbent column (a clear plastic one),the pigments that are more strongly adsorbed displace the more weaker adsorbedones, and force them further down from top to bottom in different coloredlayers or zones, separating everything." All you do is cut out the sectionthat has the compound you are looking for.
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Now getting back tothe drinking of urine. The urine fromsomeone who has eaten Amanita muscaria is first noticedlooking different from normal urine. Itmay sometimes even have a slight reddish tint, It does not smell like normalurine, It actually has a pleasant aroma. The taste is also unlike the taste of normal urine and you suddenly aretaken by surprise. It is not bad tastingat all but has the power of tasting better each time a sip is taken. This strange change may be because Muscimolalso has a flavor enhancer trait, as it does come from Ibotenic Acid.
Hope all this hashelped and answered many other questions you have had about this mushroom. Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, CuratorFMRC
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Reporting False Posts……..There is a Boletus That Has Gills &
"Psilocybe Coronilla” A DeadlyPsilocybe
I saw these postsat Shroomotopia. A poster who goes byRedCap66 writes, “You do know there is one Bolete that has gills?”. I posted back on the thread that “No mushroomin the Genus Boletus has gills”. I thengot a PM message “Your wrong sir” from Redcap. Now, U R wrong sir or You are wrong sir, or you’re wrong sir, would haveall been okay. But to put “Your” wrong,well, to me, that’s obliterating 6th grade English grammar. Now I know even more about this person. Then I see him on “chat”. Someone asks him how he is. He responds that he is “under attack”. No one says anything back. There was no attack. I was only clearing up a false statement thatwas made. If you do not want to be underattack, don’t post stupid crap that is wrong. Now, every time I post somewhere, he comes in right behind me to posthow its not true or how he disagrees with my statements, and adding othertidbits. One thing for sure, I do notneed some dickweed mushroom grasshopper to help me out with any thing that hasto do with mushrooms. I posted myarticle on groups of mushrooms that need casing to start pins (Psilocybecubensis is included in this group), of course, he has to come in withthis: “Its not 1984 any more. Then shows mushrooms growing saying they had nocasing. To me, he is saying that casingwas used many years ago, and is now outdated. And, here is the proof. Then,under a post made “No Pin set wtf” he writes: “3MZ, you had over lay. I say scrape also.but Case after the scrape” Did you read that? But case after the scrape! Hey RedCap, why would you case when it hasbeen out of date since 1984 and is not needed?
Another Post abouthow Psilocybecoronilla is Deadly!
I copy/pasted thepost with my post, but forgot to place who put the post.
"PsilocybeCoronilla, at first I was excited I had finally found a magic mushroomin Ottawa, thenI got a more in-depth book which explained that this mushroom is the onlydeadly mushroom in the Psilocybe Genus." My Post Back: I know of noPsilocybe genus mushroom that produces "Fatal Toxins". I checked withother mycologists, and even on this P. coronilla species, they allagree. Just plainly stated "There are No Deadly Psilocybe GenusMushrooms." You might see them labeled in field guides as"Poisonous". This is because they contain the toxins Psilocybin andPsilocin. These are not deadly. Poisonous means a big difference. You wouldn'twant to post the name of this "In-Depth Book" you read thisin......would you? slp/fmrc
This post was on at least two shroom chat rooms I visit. After my post,this said post was removed. I amthinking whoever the poster was, realized his “mistake” and took it off.
I have now halted making any posts atShroomotopia. I have wondered why no MODhas cautioned Redcap about his activity or his posting false information. I care not to be aggravated by him any more,and dismiss his tale here in my own forum. I would not pay any attention to anything he posts. I would first ask him to explain the onemushroom that has gills in the Genus Boletus.
So, it seems thatwhenever I point out wrong and false information about mushrooms that has beenposted at a shroomroom somewhere, it causes flaming and other bad remarks madeabout me. In the future, I will makecorrections about false posts dealing with psychoactive mushrooms here in thisTEO Journal. They can then whine allthey want to. Remember to always checkthis new column “Reporting False Posts” to keep up to date. slp/fmrc
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Recent research suggests fascinating connections between the effects of thepsychedelic drug psilocybin and personalitytraits related to inner experience. Personality appears to influence responseto psilocybin and psilocybin can promote changes in personality, suggesting areciprocal relationship. Further research in this area could lead to newinsights into the basis of human personality and creativity.
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ofopenness to experience that was evident more than a year later (evidence thatindividual differences in absorption are associated with particularneurotransmitter receptors that are acted upon by psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin personality change). This would needto be confirmed by research.
Another intriguing research question concerns what effects increased opennessto experience might have. Openness to experience is associated with creativityamong other things, so it would be interesting to scientifically examinewhether psilocybin use leads to long-term improvements in creativity or otheraspects of behavior associated with openness to experience. In the 1960s manypopular musicians experimented with psychedelic drugs such as LSD and thisapparently influenced their music. Researchinto these drugs was effectively banned around this time and only recently hasthere been a revival of scientific activity in this area. Such research couldlead to some intriguing findings about the relationship between the brain,personality, and consciousness.
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MacLean, K. A., Johnson, M. W., & Griffiths, R. R. (2011). MysticalExperiences Occasioned by the Hallucinogen Psilocybin Lead to Increases in thePersonality Domain of Openness. Journalof Psychopharmacology. doi: 10.1177/0269881111420188
Ott, U., Reuter, M., Hennig, J., & Vaitl, D. (2005). Evidence for a commonbiological basis of the absorption trait, hallucinogen effects, and positivesymptoms: Epistasis between 5-HT2a and COMT polymorphisms. American Journal of Medical GeneticsPart B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 137B(1), 29-32. doi:10.1002/ajmg.b.30197
Studerus, E., Gamma, A., Kometer, M., & Vollenweider, F. X. (2012).Prediction of Psilocybin Response in Healthy Volunteers. PLoS ONE, 7(2), e30800. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030800 Sent inby Kirk Sinsong, GA
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MakingTea From Mycelium
Mushrooms are formed by themycelium rebuilding itself into a mushroom. That is how mushrooms somehowseem to come up over night out in your front yard. They do not grow likeother plants. So, to produce a 5 gram mushroom, you would have to have 5grams of mycelium. Also remember, as the mushroom is being built, furthermycelium is growing and being produced. When jars have pretty muchspent themselves and are no longer producing any mushrooms, the weight ofmycelium is pretty low. This is why when many people try to make tea fromthese jars, not much happens and depending on the growing media, can tastereally bad. Best way to make tea from mycelium......grow the mycelium outin liquid media. Strain the media to trap only the mycelium. If yougather say 20 grams of mycelium, you basically have a 20 grammushroom. Make tea from that and drink it, your eyebrows will go up....biggrin. slp/fmrc
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If anyone has an article or something theywould like to submit to be in "TEO", please submit toFloridaMycology@cs.com or postal mail to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523. If what you send in is used, you win a year’s free subscription to TEO,Hard Copy Issue. Other articles found innewspapers and other print, should be sent postal mail. Any article used earns the sender a year’s freesubscription to “TEO”. “TEO” is thephysical issue of this Journal; “TEO” Electronica is the electronic version ofissue. So, be sure to include yourpostal address when submitting any article. Mail Call entries earn no free subscription. You may also elect and state not to have yourname published or listed with article. Ideas about regular columns by you are welcomed, as are all
other ideas that you feel will be helpfulto this Journal. Because this Journal also comeswith spore print samples affixed inside, you may submit mushroom spore printson paper to be placed in this Journal. Several full sheets are needed so that everyone receives a sample. Examples of mushroom spore print samplesaffixed in past "TEO" Issues: Amanita muscaria, Psilocybe cubensis, Amanitapantherina, Psilocybe azurescens,and Panaeolus foeniscecii/cyanescens.
Spores should be sent to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523. Actual live mushroom spore print samples areaffixed into journals for identifying purposes only. They can be compared to suspected foundmushroom's spores to help in making a positive identification. No growing claims are made or implied. Any articles, spores, or other submissionsthat are used earn you a year's free Hard Copy Subscription.
Submitting spore samples for Journalentries entitles you to one year’s free subscription to the"Physical" issues published by FMRC. Only select prints that you are sure of identification. Do not submit samples you cannot identify. "TMC" and "TEO"("THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The
Journal Of Mushroom Cultivation (TMC) and "TEONANACATL",The International Journal Of Psychoactive Mushrooms TEO), both published byFMRC, still remain the only "Color" mushroom journals that come withmushroom spore print samples. This ismainly due to reader collection
and the fact it is quite troublesome toplace the said samples in this Journal. To this date, I know of no one else who has tried taking on thistask. Mushroom prints should be taken onpaper. Any dark colored spores can betaken on white paper. Light colored orwhite spores should be taken on a dark colored paper. This will ensure contrast and make the sporeseasy to see. Seven to nine completesheets should be submitted. Place andaffix (with stapleor tape) cover sheet over each sheet of prints. Send date and place collected.
Because these issues have this unique feature ofmushroom spore print samples to aid in the correct identification of mushroomscollected out in the wild, they have a cut off of 3,000 subscribers. This makes original Hard Copy back issues of"TMC" and "TEO" rare and the most valuable to collect.
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“T E O N A N A C A T L”
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Copyright Information: This Journal is copyrighted under International Law, and all said lawsapply. Any material that finds its wayinto this Journal and has already been copyrighted elsewhere, retains originalcopyright. Authors and photographers whosubmit material in this Journal are not restricted from using their work, orthe sale thereof. Persons may reprint ortransmit this document only in its complete and original form. No parts, articles, photographs, or any otherpartial pieces may be removed from this document. If you have any questions about reprinting orre-transmitting, call 1.850.327.4378 and ask for Stephen L. Peele. Copies of this document can be given awayfreely for academic or information purposes. Any sale, placement, or display in any media that involves the transferof money, of document, or parts of, is a violation of Copyright.
Subscriptions: You must be at least 18 years of age tosubscribe to this Journal. Anysubscription request with payment confirms that you are at least this age, andmeet "TEO's" age requirements! Otherwise, if you are under 18, collect mushrooms, and wish to have themushroom spore print samples to insure proper ID, and to prevent accidentalpoisoning, have your parents subscribe for you. TEO is a Quarterly Publication, and is published 4 times a year, Feb.,May, Aug., and Nov.
Physical Issue (Hard Copy).....Contains actualspore print samples and color photographs inserted. Spores are to be used as standards to comparewith mushrooms found out in the wild or involved with mushroom poisonings at Poison ControlCenters and ERs athospitals. As some mushroom spore printsamples in this Journal may be capable of producing Controlled Substances, "RESTRICTEDISSUES" (Issues that contain said type spores) will not be mailed intorestricted areas such as CA, ID, and GA. They will not be mailed to Australiaor New Zealand. These areas can only accept "NON-RESTRICTED ISSUES" (Issues that do not contain said type freespore samples). Because many articles are copy/pasted from emails, spelling and grammarerrors may exist. They are left “as is”to show proof of original document. It is mailed to you in a thick plain brownenvelope.
Subscription rates: One year’s subscription $30.00 (Outside ofUSA $50.00), Two year’s subscription$50.00 (Outside of USA $90.00), Threeyear’s subscription $70.00 (Outside of USA $130.00). “Lifetime” subscription is $1,000.00 (Outsideof USA $2,000.00). Make payment out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523.
The Hard Copy Issues are $10.00 each. When all originals are sold,"REPRINT" or photocopies are provided (these issues may not contain anycolor photographs or spore print samples). The only way to insure getting a complete issue is to subscribe and getoriginal Issues. Current Issue$15.00.
How Many Issues Do I Have Left on my"TEO" Hard Copy Subscription? Check the number right after your first name or above the businessaddress on your mailing label. This ishow many issues are left on your current subscription. Also see "Culture Flask": If your culture flask has a RED Contaminantin it......this is your last issue! Please re-subscribe. There may beno other further notices. Send paymentnow while it is on your mind. That wayyou will never miss an issue!
Most tests are ran onMass Spect. The police do not have to identify any mushroom. Thisactually gives them an advantage over us. If the judge opens the testresults in court and reads Positive on Psilocybin, you are in trouble. During early 60's and 70's, mycologists kept it a secret about myceliumproducing any controlled substances. But, at last they knew. Onestrange thing, Ps. cyanescens was shown not to produce Psilocybin in liquidculture. However, when same culture was put on agar, it did.
In 1964, Catalforno and Tyler published their study of the ability of Ps.cubensis to produce Psilocybin in submerged liquid culture. Catalfornohad previously cultivated two other Psilocybian species, Ps. cyanescens and Ps.pelleculosa, but these produced no detectable Psilocybin in liquidculture. Concentrations of up to 1.03 percent Psilocybin were reported inthe mycelium of Ps. cubensis grown in potato dextrose liquid medium. Thestudy was performed by varying the nutrients in a potato dextrose liquid mediumfortified with trace elements. It was found that Ps. cubensis myceliumproduced its greatest amount of Psilocybin on the seventh day after inoculationand the largest amount of mycelium by the ninth.
I did an article many years ago about a case in CA. The law kicked thedoors on a man they got a tip from, saying he was growing magicmushrooms. One of the members held one of the canning jars up and said,"Yes, he is growing Psilly Psybin Mushrooms. This is how they doit." This idiot's expert opinion was all they needed to arresthim. His mother and father disowned him, he was fired from his job at theAero Space Program. After posting bond he called me. Said he wasonly growing Oyster Mushrooms. I told him that if he was truthful, thenno Psilocybin should come back from the tests. Tests came back - NoPsilocybin. He told me he wanted to sue the bastards. I never didhear if he did or not. CA was the first state to post laws onspores. They did this in the 80's. Most of you know my stand onmushroom laws. Because of the Fisk VS FL decision, I agree, any lawagainst any mushroom, is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. slp/fmrc I came back toedit this in: About PF...first of all he got back everything includinghis money. The inside information I have is that the cultures the lawgrew were of Ps. cyanescens. It is unknown why they had this speciesand not the Ps. cubensis that PF had and sold.
Notes On Stupid Mushroom Laws
Unlikemany of you, I collected, grew, and enjoyed mushrooms before 1966, the yearthey, along with LSD and Mescaline, were declared "Illegal". Seems tome that human civilization got along just fine for thousands of years withoutany laws on mushrooms. So, I post this: AreMushroom Laws Too Harsh???
When it comes to mushrooms, do any of the laws make sense? People are free tojoin the Army, be a policeman, skydive, Bull Fight, base jump, ski inavalanche-prone mountains, drive race cars at over 200 mph, mountain climb, getin the ring with Mike Tyson, hang glide, drive an automobile (they say this is themost dangerous thing a person does every day), smoke cigarettes and drinkalcohol, and go to the Space Station. Do these activities seem more dangerousthan eating a mushroom? Do you know how many people died last year from doingthese types of things? Just smoking and drinking killed well over one-halfmillion! Do you know how many people died last year from eating a magicmushroom? Not one person. That's because Psilocybin is the least toxic of allthe known Psychoactives. Pot, even nicotine and caffeine, are more lethal. Thisinformation 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 safeactivity. If mushroom laws are to exist, they must be fair! They should be asour Alcohol Laws are (even though mushrooms are no way near the problems ofalcohol). No driving. No minors. No sales to minors. Legal "SmallGrows" like making your own wine.
I'm telling you that the local whiskey store down the street in your area, isresponsible for much more harm to society than any mushroom or mushroom spore,will ever be. And yet, this goes on without any attention. I have alwaysthought that any laws written on mushrooms cannot exist.
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Fora plant to be illegal, the public must be put on notice…..the law requires thatit be named illegal. Like Pot, it is named.....like Opium Poppy, it is named.Most common and ordinary people understand this. Most common and ordinarypeople know what these plants look like. If not, it is easy for them to learn.No mushroom (Federal) has ever been named…….No government has the legal rightto outlaw a certain mushroom, especially when the same mushroom grows wild rightin the area that has said type laws. No government should ever out law anymushroom species, because the normal and ordinary person cannot tell onemushroom from another. I bet the people who make these laws cannot even tellthe difference themselves. So why should they think all of us can?
This Journal's "Hard Copy" is postal mailedthe second week of the Issue's Publication month/date. Because games and prizes offered in thisJournal are restricted to postal mail only, the Electronic Issue is notreleased until 7 days after the postal mailing of the "Hard Copy". This is done to prevent unfair advantage ifboth were released at the same time. Toview the
Electronic Issue, go to www.mushroomsfmrc.comthen, click on “TEO Journals”. The FREEDownload is made available by donations. To help keep this mycological free service available to all, you maysend your donation in any amount to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523
As you read through TEO, youmay come upon misspelled words and other typos. This is because it is the Publisher’s decision to paste articles,emails, and other sent-in items, just as we receive them…errors and all. This also documents the original dispatch ofsaid item.
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Know The Mushroom Laws In Your Area: Some readers who receive this Journal livein areas where no mushroom laws exist. Others, like those living in the USA, must be aware of laws thatforbid the possession and cultivation of mushrooms that contain controlledsubstances. Psilocybe cubensisis an example of an illegal mushroom in the USA. Some states in the USA even have laws on possessingcertain spores, even though these very same spores grow wild, right in the verysame state. As articles are done on aninternational basis, always keep in mind the laws on these said type mushroomsin your own specific area. Most allareas allow mushroom spore print samples on paper to aid in the identificationof mushrooms found out in the wild. Questions? Check with the lawfrom a pay phone. Write down date, nameand badge # of officer spoken with, to confirm any “no laws” answer given. Thailandand other legal areas, have no mushroom laws to worry about.
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PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”
Psychoactive MushroomQuiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal. If you know the answer, write it down andmail it in. No phone calls. No E-mail. No FAX. Your entry must be mailedby 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can useAirmail). The first letter that isopened and has the correct answer WINS. What do you win? An entire year’ssubscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE! Your name will be posted with the correctanswer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish yourname”). So, come on and
impress your mushroom friends with your knowledge. Send your entry to FMRC, “PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523.
Last Issue’s #40 TEO Question: Whatis “Dryophilous”?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer: Living on, under, or near.
Winner – Paul Palmer, WA
“PMQ” For this #41 TEO Issue: Whatis “edentate”?
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How to Win a Year’s Free Subscription to“TEO”
If you see any article about psychoactive mushrooms,past or present, and you think others may like to read it, send it in. If it is used in ”TEO”, you get the freesubscription. If you find a large standof a particular species of psychoactive
mushroom, and are able to collect 4 to 5 good fullsheets of spore prints (enough
to place samples in “TEO”), send them in. If they are accepted, they will be placed in“TEO”, and you get the free subscription. If you send anything in that has to do with psychoactive mushrooms, andit is used (Mail Call letters do not apply), you get the freesubscription. If you do not want yourname mentioned, please state so and we will honor your wishes.
Free subscriptions are Hard Copy Color issues withspore print samples.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THEFOLLOWING PEOPLE: Because of your inputto this issue of “TEO”, you are awarded a year’s free subscription. We all thank you for your very helpful input: Paul Palmer for correct PMQ answer andJim Zee for FREE Mushroom Spore Print Sample in this Issue SOO81, Amanitamuscaria.
Please be advised that any postal orelectronic mail sent to FMRC and “TEO” becomes their property, and said mailmay be used in articles published by FMRC and “TEO”. However, if you ever send something in andyou don’t want your name given, state so and we will follow your wish. If you wish not to be in our records, stateso and you will not be. Any subscriberwill, at least, be on our subscription list in order to receive saidsubscription.
#41 TEO August 2012 Page 04 Copyrighted Material
Teonanacatl Journal Back Issues Available on CD-ROM
Allthe TEO Back Issues #01-#13 on CD-ROM – In Full Color. Just put the disk into your computer and youwill see all the Back Issues #01 - #13 in full color. Order this CD-ROM for only $40.00! Just write down your request and includepayment of $40.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523.
Submitting Spore Print Samples andArticles to This Journal “TEO”
If anyone has an article or something theywould like to submit to be in "TEO", please submit toFloridaMycology@cs.com or postal mail to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523. If what you send in is used, you win a year’s free subscription to TEO,Hard Copy Issue. Other articles found innewspapers and other print, should be sent postal mail. Any article used earns the sender a year’s freesubscription to “TEO”. “TEO” is thephysical issue of this Journal; “TEO” Electronica is the electronic version ofissue. So, be sure to include yourpostal address when submitting any article. Mail Call entries earn no free subscription. You may also elect and state not to have yourname published or listed with article. Ideas about regular columns by you are welcomed, as are all
other ideas that you feel will be helpfulto this Journal. Because this Journal also comeswith spore print samples affixed inside, you may submit mushroom spore printson paper to be placed in this Journal. Several full sheets are needed so that everyone receives a sample. Examples of mushroom spore print samplesaffixed in past "TEO" Issues: Amanita muscaria, Psilocybe cubensis, Amanitapantherina, Psilocybe azurescens,and Panaeolus foeniscecii/cyanescens.
Spores should be sent to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523. Actual live mushroom spore print samples areaffixed into journals for identifying purposes only. They can be compared to suspected foundmushroom's spores to help in making a positive identification. No growing claims are made or implied. Any articles, spores, or other submissionsthat are used earn you a year's free Hard Copy Subscription.
Submitting spore samples for Journalentries entitles you to one year’s free subscription to the"Physical" issues published by FMRC. Only select prints that you are sure of identification. Do not submit samples you cannotidentify. "TMC" and"TEO" ("THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The
Journal Of Mushroom Cultivation (TMC) and"TEONANACATL", The International Journal Of Psychoactive MushroomsTEO), both published by FMRC, still remain the only "Color" mushroomjournals that come with mushroom spore print samples. This is mainly due to reader collection
and the fact it is quite troublesome toplace the said samples in this Journal. To this date, I know of no one else who has tried taking on thistask. Mushroom prints should be taken onpaper. Any dark colored spores can betaken on white paper. Light colored orwhite spores should be taken on a dark colored paper. This will ensure contrast and make the sporeseasy to see. Seven to nine completesheets should be submitted. Place andaffix (with stapleor tape) cover sheet over each sheet of prints. Send date and place collected.
Because these issues have this unique feature ofmushroom spore print samples to aid in the correct identification of mushroomscollected out in the wild, they have a cut off of 3,000 subscribers. This makes original Hard Copy back issues of"TMC" and "TEO" rare and the most valuable to collect.
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How To Place An Ad In "TEO"
For 1 full year (4 issues)…Full page $500.00, ½ page $250.00, ¼ page $125.00.
For one time (1 issue)…Full page $200.00, ½ page $100.00, ¼ page $50.00, 40word ad $20.00.
Back Issues of "TEO" Hard Copies, are $10.00 each. When all originals have been sold, Reprint orPhotocopies are made available. CD-ROMsent when these are out (no spore samples or Color Photograph may be affixed).
Color Photograph of Psilocybe subcubensis……………………….08
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Mushroom Journal Subscriptions:If you would like to order a subscription to “TEONANACATL”,you may send request and payment of $30.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523 for oneyear. Give the postal address and nameyou would like the “Hard Copy” subscription sent to.
Copyright Information: This Journal is copyrighted under International Law, and all said lawsapply. Any material that finds its wayinto this Journal and has already been copyrighted elsewhere, retains originalcopyright. Authors and photographers whosubmit material in this Journal are not restricted from using their work, orthe sale thereof. Persons may reprint ortransmit this document only in its complete and original form. No parts, articles, photographs, or any otherpartial pieces may be removed from this document. If you have any questions about reprinting orre-transmitting, call 1.850.327.4378 and ask for Stephen L. Peele. Copies of this document can be given awayfreely for academic or information purposes. Any sale, placement, or display in any media that involves the transferof money, of document, or parts of, is a violation of Copyright.
Subscriptions: You must be at least 18 years of age tosubscribe to this Journal. Anysubscription request with payment confirms that you are at least this age, andmeet "TEO's" age requirements! Otherwise, if you are under 18, collect mushrooms, and wish to have themushroom spore print samples to insure proper ID, and to prevent accidentalpoisoning, have your parents subscribe for you. TEO is a Quarterly Publication, and is published 4 times a year, Feb.,May, Aug., and Nov.
Physical Issue (Hard Copy).....Contains actualspore print samples and color photographs inserted. Spores are to be used as standards to comparewith mushrooms found out in the wild or involved with mushroom poisonings at Poison ControlCenters and ERs athospitals. As some mushroom spore printsamples in this Journal may be capable of producing Controlled Substances, "RESTRICTEDISSUES" (Issues that contain said type spores) will not be mailed intorestricted areas such as CA, ID, and GA. They will not be mailed to Australiaor New Zealand. These areas can only accept "NON-RESTRICTED ISSUES" (Issues that do not contain said type freespore samples). Because many articles are copy/pasted from emails, spelling and grammarerrors may exist. They are left “as is”to show proof of original document. It is mailed to you in a thick plain brownenvelope.
Subscription rates: One year’s subscription $30.00 (Outside ofUSA $50.00), Two year’s subscription$50.00 (Outside of USA $90.00), Threeyear’s subscription $70.00 (Outside of USA $130.00). “Lifetime” subscription is $1,000.00 (Outsideof USA $2,000.00). Make payment out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523.
The Hard Copy Issues are $10.00 each. When all originals are sold,"REPRINT" or photocopies are provided (these issues may not containany color photographs or spore print samples). The only way to insure getting a complete issue is to subscribe and getoriginal Issues. Current Issue$15.00.
How Many Issues Do I Have Left on my"TEO" Hard Copy Subscription? Check the number right after your first name or above the businessaddress on your mailing label. This ishow many issues are left on your current subscription. Also see "Culture Flask": If your culture flask has a RED Contaminantin it......this is your last issue! Please re-subscribe. There may beno other further notices. Send paymentnow while it is on your mind. That wayyou will never miss an issue!
This Journal's "Hard Copy" is postal mailedthe second week of the Issue's Publication month/date. Because games and prizes offered in thisJournal are restricted to postal mail only, the Electronic Issue is notreleased until 7 days after the postal mailing of the "HardCopy". This is done to preventunfair advantage if both were released at the same time. To view the
Electronic Issue, go to www.mushroomsfmrc.comthen, click on “TEO Journals”. The FREEDownload is made available by donations. To help keep this mycological free service available to all, you maysend your donation in any amount to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523
As you read through TEO, youmay come upon misspelled words and other typos. This is because it is the Publisher’s decision to paste articles,emails, and other sent-in items, just as we receive them…errors and all. This also documents the original dispatch ofsaid item.
Comeand join in with discussions. Its agreat thing its back.
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Know The Mushroom Laws In Your Area: Some readers who receive this Journal livein areas where no mushroom laws exist. Others, like those living in the USA, must be aware of laws thatforbid the possession and cultivation of mushrooms that contain controlledsubstances. Psilocybe cubensisis an example of an illegal mushroom in the USA. Some states in the USA even have laws on possessingcertain spores, even though these very same spores grow wild, right in the verysame state. As articles are done on aninternational basis, always keep in mind the laws on these said type mushroomsin your own specific area. Most allareas allow mushroom spore print samples on paper to aid in the identificationof mushrooms found out in the wild. Questions? Check with the lawfrom a pay phone. Write down date, nameand badge # of officer spoken with, to confirm any “no laws” answer given. Thailandand other legal areas, have no mushroom laws to worry about.
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FS Book Company
P.O. Box 417457
Sacramento,California 95841-7457
Good People With Good MushroomBooks
Call 1-916-771-4203 and find out how to gettheir Catalog! Tell them “I saw yourCatalog Ad in the “TEO” Mushroom Journal by FMRC.”
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#40 TEO May 2012 Page 02 Copyrighted Material
PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”
Psychoactive MushroomQuiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal. If you know the answer, write it down andmail it in. No phone calls. No E-mail. No FAX. Your entry must be mailedby 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can useAirmail). The first letter that isopened and has the correct answer WINS. What do you win? An entire year’ssubscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE! Your name will be posted with the correctanswer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish yourname”). So, come on and
impress your mushroom friends with your knowledge. Send your entry to FMRC, “PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523.
Last Issue’s #39 TEO Question: Whatdoes it mean when you say the mushroom was “melline”?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer: Being “Honey Colored”.
Winner – Nick Paul, AZ
“PMQ” For this #40 TEO Issue: Whatis “Dryophilous”?
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How to Win a Year’s Free Subscription to“TEO”
If you see any article about psychoactive mushrooms,past or present, and you think others may like to read it, send it in. If it is used in ”TEO”, you get the freesubscription. If you find a large standof a particular species of psychoactive
mushroom, and are able to collect 4 to 5 good fullsheets of spore prints (enough
to place samples in “TEO”), send them in. If they are accepted, they will be placed in“TEO”, and you get the free subscription. If you send anything in that has to do with psychoactive mushrooms, andit is used (Mail Call letters do not apply), you get the freesubscription. If you do not want yourname mentioned, please state so and we will honor your wishes.
Free subscriptions are Hard Copy Color issues withspore print samples.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THEFOLLOWING PEOPLE: Because of your inputto this issue of “TEO”, you are awarded a year’s free subscription. We all thank you for your very helpful input: Nick Paul for correct PMQ answer, JayByrd for FREE SO38 sample in this Issue, and Mark Johnson for PsilocybianMushrooms LimitBrain Blood Flow and Connections.
Please be advised that any postal orelectronic mail sent to FMRC and “TEO” becomes their property, and said mailmay be used in articles published by FMRC and “TEO”. However, if you ever send something in andyou don’t want your name given, state so and we will follow your wish. If you wish not to be in our records, stateso and you will not be. Any subscriberwill, at least, be on our subscription list in order to receive said subscription.
#40TEO May 2012 Page 03 Copyrighted Material
Teonanacatl Journal Back Issues Available on CD-ROM
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Evidence of mushrooms in man’s society dates back as far as500 B.C. Records indicate that in 1914 afellow from Yale University, A.E. Merrill, released anarticle that told about the hallucinogenic effects from eating a type ofmushroom which at that time, was thought to be a Panaeolus Genus mushroom.
In 1915, William E. Safford, an American botanist, claimedthat the magic mushrooms of the Aztecs never existed. He believed that the buttons from the PeyoteCactus was in fact the magic herb. For along time after this, the theory was accepted.
It was not until the middle 50’s, when R.G. Wasson solvedthe mystery with his release of “Mushrooms, Russia, and History”. He found that there was a mushroom cult, andthe tie between the use of hallucinogenic herbs and religion. By the 1960’s, the toxins Psilocybin andPsilocin had been isolated by Dr. Albert Hofmann. A Harvard psychologist, by the name ofTimothy Leary, tries the
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mushrooms and writes “It was the classic visionary voyageand I came back a different man……..You are never the same person after you havehad the look down the cellular time tunnel”. Prisoners in ConcordState Prison were used in experiments with synthetic Psilocybin in 1960. These prisoners had a lower return back toprison. This may indicate the finding ofone’s self.
Laws against the possession of Psilocybin came down in1966. The compounds LSD and Mescalinewere also at this time put on the same list.
In 1986, Stephen L. Peele produces the “FRUIT OF THE GODS” MushroomDocumentary. The Mushroom Story thatstarted it all. It explained everythingthere was known about Psilocybe cubensis. Even had how to collect and identify, rightup to how it was home cultivated.
On Nov. 6, 1998, I received the following information: This is how it was published in the #41 TMC Journal,January 1999 – “JAPAN MAKES IT’S FIRST MAGIC MUSHROOM ARREST” The Japanese man wasarrested for selling hallucinogenic mushrooms. Kiyoyuki Takagi was selling capsules which contained dried, powderedmushrooms. He said they had a great effecton sex…..pulling in $85,000.00. Japanhas no laws on mushrooms. So, theybusted him for not having a license for selling pharmaceutical products. Selling or having the mushrooms in Japanis legal, however, you better have a license when you sell it as a medicalaid.”
In 1999, The Netherlands passed laws where if the mushroomswere fresh, they were legal. If theywere dried, they were illegal. This hasbeen going back and forth. But, on March16, 2002, I got information that I thought I would never hear. “JAPAN OUTLAWS “MAGIC MUSHROOMS”. I would have thought Japan would be the last place everto outlaw a certain mushroom…..but it happened. TOKYO,March 16, 2002 – The Government of Japan will stop the sale and possession ofmushrooms that they say contain “narcotic elements”. They will change the current laws to say thatthese type mushrooms are a raw material narcotic source. These changes start taking place at the firstpart of April, with laws being in full effect by June 2002. They also plan to outlaw all other mushroomsthat contain Psilocybin and Psilocin including cultivation, imports, and evenadvertisements of said mushrooms. Nolaws on any mushrooms have ever exist ed in Japan. Extracting compounds like Psilocybin frommushrooms has been the law, but possession and sales were not covered by thelaw. The activity up until now has justbeen overlooked by Japan. Because of this, they are sold in stores andon the Internet. There are about 11different mushrooms that grow wild in Japan that are going to fall underthe new law. (A note by S.L. Peele – Ialways like this law. Now you are acriminal because a wild mushroom that grows in your area, is on your lawn! Just like from time to time, Psilocybesemilanceata , The Liberty Cap, are seen by the thousands growing onthe
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lawns that surround the House of Representatives in CA. The very place that
started CA law bills against psilocybin containing mushroomsand even their spores! I have oftenwondered why some upset mushroom people did not bring this up to the localpolice? I bet they would change somelaws if all the REPs were hauled off to jail for cultivating and possession.)
Today, many people are learning about the magic of certainmushrooms. People who want them badenough, cultivate their own. Others inareas where they grow, are out in the pastures after a rain seeking them. Most of these people today are after thethrill and not the religious part, although many people have relayed greatspiritual experiences. slp/fmrc
Turn off yourmind, relax, and float downstream, indeed. A new scientific study suggests thatpsilocybin -- the psychedelic drug found in magic mushrooms -- doesn't"turn on" parts of your brain but rather restricts blood flow andconnections between the regions of the brain tied to perception and cognition.Imperial College London psychopharmacology researcher Robin Carhart-Harrispresented the results of this study, in which 30 volunteers were injected withpsilocybin and underwent brain scans, at last week's Breaking Conventionconference on psychedelic consciousness. Interestingly, the data helps supportpsilocybin's potential use to treat depression. From New Scientist:
Less blood flow was seen in the brain regions known as the thalamus, the posterior cingulate and the medial prefrontal cortex. "Seeing a decrease wassurprising. We thought profound experience equalled more activity, but thisformula is clearly too simplistic," says Carhart-Harris. "We didn't see an increase in any regions," he says.
Decreases inconnectivity were also observed, such as between the hippocampus and theposterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex.
"Underpsilocybin you see a relative decrease in 'talk' between the hippocampus andthese cortical hub regions," says Carhart-Harris. "Changes infunction in the posterior cingulate in particular are associated with changesin consciousness."
Psilocybin has a similarchemical structure to serotonin – a hormone involved in regulating mood – andtherefore binds to serotonin receptors on nerve cells in the brain. The drugmay have therapeutic potential because the serotonin system in nerves is also atarget for existing antidepressants. Sent in by Mark Johnson.
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"Psylocybe Fanaticus the Pioneer of Shrooming Lies in Coma"
11/27/2011 2:43:14 PM Central Standard Time FMRC Received
Robert ' Billy' McPherson, creator of the PF TEK, is in his final sleep. Themind of Robert 'Billy' Mcpherson, once better known as Psylocybe Fanaticus, issuccumbing to hepatitis C. He will notbe with us in 2012. He is in coma since11-11-11 and in his final hours before leaving his body. His techniques willsurvive forever. I guess that still mostpeople who cultivate Psilocybe cubensis use his creation,the PF TEK, to do so remember... slp/fmrc
For more complete information on everything about him, go: http://www.seanet.com/~rwmcpherson/pfcase.html
Things I have learned and believe to be true. The man with wisdom will know these words.
For many years now, many have been thinking that there is noway a government can listen in on all the phone calls or all of theemails. Their argument is it would takemillions of people listening, and that would not even be enough listeners. But this is not the “MO”. It is being done in a way that computers now“listen”.
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In 1970, I had a friend that worked for my local phonecompany. He used to come over andvisit. One night on TV, the old scenewhere the police are trying to keep someone on the phone for however manyminutes, so that they can trace the call, my friend says “You know that’s abunch of mess, don’t you?” What do youmean? “They only need two rings to tracethe number.” He then said, “Let me useyour phone and I will show you something.” He picked up that old Rotor-Dial phone and dialed a number. He told the person his company personnelphone employee ID number and acted like he was repairing a phone linesomewhere, and then asked what number he was calling from. He then put the phone to my ear, and I heardthe lady say my phone number! He toldthem thank you, and hung up the phone. The truth is, if they can hold you on the phone for 2 or 3 minutes, theywill be there on you. Now remember, thiswas over 40 years ago. In today’s world,things like this are child’s play.
Years ago I remember hearing about a Supreme Court Decisionthat said if “waves” pass through your yard space and property lines, you werefree to intercept it. This means that ifyou have some way of receiving wave information going through your space, youhave the right to view it, and not have to pay any one for it or have theirpermission. I myself have seen some veryimpressive footage that was intercepted from NASA, showing some very strangethings going on…..on the Back Side of our Moon. Did you know that because of the way our Moon rotates, we only ever seejust one side! There is only one side wealways see. This story is another oneall together. You should take the timeand study this rare thing our Moon does. It is unlike anything else in our Solar System.
The governments own the space around their satellites andsatellites transmit cell phones and other data we all send. Seems to me, England was the first country Iremember hearing about, that had a program to monitor phone conversations. Did you ever wonder how the UK had all those phoneconversations with Princess “Dies” and her boyfriend? And all those other personal calls you usedto hear about from there on the news? Truth is, this software they use, looks at and flags any conversations,(and specific phone numbers), that have certain key words that they haveentered for the program. I am sure wordslike “White House”, Bomb, and so forth, are in the program we use. And all, I mean all, the other informationthat is not flagged, is saved on a chip. Just one of these small, super mega chips, can store every single email,phone call and all other millions of data that is made every day…..it can storeup
to 10 years of all this information, all this on somethingabout the size of a thumbnail. Thing is,it is true that we don’t have enough people to listen to all this informationbeing sent, but if they ever need to go back to the chip, they can pull upspecific information they are looking for, and then listen to it now!
I guess the only true case for a warrant to tap a phone lineso that the conversations could be used in a court of law, would have to be, aconversation from one ground line to another ground line and it had nosatellite transmission.
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Being able to “go back” and put someone under themicroscope, is a great advantage and a very important part of the tools theyuse.
On that note I will bring up another thing you shouldknow. You see more and more on the TVnews about when they raid someone’s house or business, they take theircomputer. Your first thought is probably“I know his glad he deleted a lot of stuff he did not want them to see”. Your second thought is “They are going tofind stuff that idiot did not delete”. But there is more to this than meets the eye. Did you know that you can “set” yourcomputer, to go back to a certain date, and it will go back to the date you choose,and will only have on it, what it had on it, that date? Even if you deleted something later, it wouldstill show up as it did at first.
Truth is, when they go through someone’s computer, they willbe able to “go back” and view the entire history of the person’s computer. Morale to this story never put anything intoyour computer you don’t want anyone else ever seeing. Nothing is absolutely deleted. It will always be there. But like all evil, there is a good side tothis. I have advised many people ondoing this to remove a recent contracted virus or worm. If you set your computer back to a datebefore you received the virus or worm, it will not be there because it was notin the computer, on the new back date in history!
Works like this, say you think you got a virus on October15. Set the “back to date” or RestoreDate, to September 15, one or two months back. If the virus was not in your computer on the new back date, it was notthere then, and won’t be again! If itsstill there, go back further in time with your setting of the back to date,until you find the right time and rid the problem. You might never need to know how to do this,but if you ever do, you will want to have and save this information somewhere,so that you can use it.
Restore Back To Another Date: Go to Programs, then Accessories, thenSystems Tools, then Systems Restore…..then Restore My Computer – Next.
How do Wormsand Viruses get into your computer? There are several ways this can happen. One way is through your emails. Usually, just opening an email does not pose much problem. There are some types of these programs thatcan be placed in the very text of the email. To have one of these type embedded virus programs, there has to be a lotof text to hide it in. So, if the emailis only a few paragraphs, no worry. Ifits 15 or more pages, could be. I havebeen told by people who monitor this type of stuff; this form of transmittingviral programs is not used very much, and is rare to ever see. Most viruses are designed so that
you have to let them in. Say you open up an email and its warning you about some strange activityon your credit card, or you need to update your profile somewhere, or your PayPal account is going to be closed for some reason. I always liked the one like its from the IRSand you have some refund they owe you, and for further instructions just clickthe provided Icon, or click the attachment, then while programs are downloadinginto your computer, they ask you to provide all kinds of information you nevershould give out. And on this
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Note, I would like to bring up a rather strange fact. Did you know that congress passed a law thatthe person’s Social Security Number was to be only used for Social SecurityPurposes and not as a form of National Identification? So, how did this number float into this otheridentification mode? The older issuedsocial security cards have “Not for identification” printed right on the bottomof the card. I have my original SS Cardand it has this notation on the bottom. If yours doesn’t have this, ask an older friend to see his SS Card. Not sure how many years you have to goback. I will be 65 in 2012. Back to subject, this activity is known as“phishing”. They are trying to get yourpersonal information, if not also placing a viral program in yourcomputer. Never do the clicking. First of all, if these people really wantedto talk to you, they would call or send postal mail. The IRS does not email you. If you ever get an email and it looks like itis from the IRS, and it says they owe you a refund…….forward that email to: phishing@irs.gov the proper authorities,and hopefully they will get what they disserve. You might want to place that phishing email address for the IRS, in youraddress book. That way you will be readywhen you get it. So you can get viralprograms from clicking an Icon placed in the email, also known as ahyper-link. The other way to let a viralprogram in is to click on an Attachment, especially if you get the warning thatit is an Executable Code. Be sure youknow who sent this. Sometimes, they canlay dormant, so that you pass them on to others without ever knowing. Otherwise, they jump right in and shut yourcomputer down, or start the worm purpose activity. Many times funny stories, scientific storiesand other interesting things that people like to forward on to their friendscarry these problems. They even manytimes say be sure to forward this on to 10 other people. When its forwarded, the viral program is alsoforwarded, to everyone who is sent the email! There is also sometimes the email that comes in and it has the emailaddress from some body you know. Most ofthe times these emails have a hotmail or yahoo email name, but not always. Not sure how exactly these people know how todo this, but it does go on. You get anemail, and its from some email address that you know to be a friend. When you open it, there is only a URL or someother text that wants to send you to the attachment. Whenever in doubt something like this isgoing on, email back the person with a copy/paste of the email inquestion. If they did not send it, theyare always somewhat mad about it, someone else using their email address. Never open an attachment or URL you are notsure of, until you confirm where it came from. As for myself, I hardly ever open any attachments even from friends Iknow. Could be one of those dormantthingies, or false email address. I tell
them, if its something they want me to read or see,copy/paste it right on an email and send that to me.
Porn sites are heavily holding all kinds of bad things. They have been number one for this problemfor some time now. As soon as you clickon the site, all kinds of things can, unknowingly, enter into yourcomputer. Why, because the people who dothese things know there is a lot of activity at these places. That’s
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what they want, a big audience to attach to. So they are busy placing these types ofprograms at these sites so that they will enter everyone who visits. I recently heard that URLs that post up musicvideos had now moved up higher on this scale and took over 1st placefrom the porn sites. Be sure to visitonly safe sites. If you do get intotrouble, Restore Back to an earlier date….grin. By Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
Ibotenic Concentrations in the Amanita Family A. muscaria (L. ex Fr.) Hooker
0.03-0.1 % a,b
(25,27) A. muscaria(Fr.) S. F. Gray
0.0025 % a,b
(19) A. muscaria(Fr.) S. F. Gray var. muscaria
0.18%c,d
(23) A. muscariavar. formosa (Fr.) Sacc.
0.17%c,d
(23) A. muscariavar. alba (Peck) Coker
0.18%c,d
(23) A. strobiliformis (Paul.) Qu?l.
0.0015%a,b
(28) A. pantherinn (D.C.) Fr.
0.021%a,b
(19) A. pantherina (Fr.) Secr.
0.46%c,d
(23) A. pantherina-gemmata (intermediate form)
0.28%c,d……………not sure where this came from. Found on an old file. slp/fmrc
Drug Tests On Mushrooms
I received a call many years ago from a researcherworking on this very thing. He worked for a company that did all kinds of"compound detections". The company had what is known as a"MassSpec". This is a very expensive piece of machine. It is theultimate tester. He himself, took a good voyage dose, and then began testinghis own urine with the MassSpec. Psilocybin was found the next day when he wentin. On the second day, only a small amount was noted. On the third day, on thatafternoon, he stated that no traces were found of any psilocybian compounds. Normaldrug tests do not include the search for mushroom compounds. Unless for some specific reason it is done,it is expensive. slp/fmrc
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In TEO’s last issue, #38 TEO, there was mention ofan article that would be in this #39 TEO, listing all of the mushrooms thatproduced Psilocybin. Mr. John Allen wasgoing to provide this said listing. Ispoke with Mr. Allen and he stated that his computer was down and his health isfailing. He is sorry but the new listwill not be released, as of yet.
A clinical trial of "magic mushroom therapy" could take place inthe UKwithin a year following two ground-breaking studies. Doctors plan to treat depressed patients whocannot be helped by modern drugs or behavior-based psychotherapy with theactive ingredient in hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Psilocybin would slowly be infused into their bloodstreams while theyreceive a carefully tailored "talking therapy". The controversial trial is planned byProfessor David Nutt, from Imperial College London, who three years ago wassacked as the Government's chief drug adviser.
Prof Nutt, former chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs(ACMD) clashed with then Home Secretary Alan Johnson after criticizing the decisionto toughen the law on cannabis. The moveto investigate psilocybin as a possible treatment for serious depression islinked to results from two far-reaching scientific studies.
In one, volunteers were given psilocybin infusions while undergoing functionalmagnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) brain scans. The findings, reported today in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences”, showed the drug disconnected two key"hub" regions of the brain with multiple connections to other areas.
One of these regions, the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is known to behyperactive in people with depression. The other, the posterior cingulatecortex (PCC) at the back of the brain, is thought to play a role inconsciousness and self-identity.
The second study, soon to be published in the British Journal of Psychiatry,found that the magic mushroom chemical enhanced memories associated withpositive emotions.
Speaking to journalists in Londontoday, Professor Nutt said the findings were "a revelation".
"Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs so it hascommonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity, butsurprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused activity to decrease inareas that have the densest connections with other areas.
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It is the first time serious research has been carried out on the effects of"psychedelic" drugs for more than 50 years.
In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists investigating drugs such as LSD andpsilocybin carried out studies on around 40,000 patients and published 1,000papers. Such work was brought to an abrupt halt when the drugs came to be seenas social evils and were made illegal.
"They got banned because they could be society changing," saidProfessor Nutt. "There was great concern about that. Since then they'vebeen virtually impossible to research."
Neither the Medical Research Council (MRC) nor the Wellcome Trust,Britain'sbiggest research charity, had been willing to fund the new studies. And both Nature and Science, thetwo most prestigious scientific journals, refused to publish the findings.
Now the MRC is said to be showing interest in the planned clinical trial,which Professor Nutt believes could be undertaken this year with sufficientbacking.
A group of 26 patients with a history of serious depression that cannot betreated with drugs or cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is expected to takepart.
Half will be treated with psilocybin while trained psychotherapists promptthem to recollect happy memories and think positively.
After the treatment, the patients' progress will be monitored for a year.Their responses will be compared with those of a "placebo group" ofanother 13 patients given infusions of a salt solution containing nopsilocybin.
Professor Nutt stressed that people should not be tempted to conduct theirown experiments with magic mushrooms.
"This is a research tool which may give us insights into how to treatdepression," he said. "I would strongly resist peopleself-medicating." Sent in by GeorgeTate, NC
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Whenwe ate of the tree of knowledge and our eyes were opened and we saw good andevil as it truly was, and God cursed us to forever toil the land and endurebirthing pains……. well I say the damned toiling and from what I hear thebirthing pains are not getting any easier. Don't make the tree of knowledgeillegal (mushroom). A promise is apromise, and if I have to pay for it, well, I want what I'm paying for. Let’s be fair about this. K.G.
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Magic mushroom’s positive effects lasting over a year, say researchers
Scientists at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levelsneeded to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, andbehavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance inso-called "magic mushrooms."
The findings are the latest in a seriesof experiments done at Johns Hopkins to investigate psilocybin, a psychedelicsubstance contained in certain mushrooms. The findings were published onlinethis week in the peer-reviewed journal Psychopharmacology.
“In cultures before ours, the spiritualguide or healer had to discern how much of what type of mushroom to use forwhat purposes, because the strength of psychoactive mushrooms varies fromspecies to species and even from specimen to specimen," said RolandGriffiths, Ph.D., a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences andneuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study'slead scientist.
"In our laboratory, we are workingwith the pure chemical psilocybin, which we can measure out precisely," headded. "We wanted to take a methodical look at how its effects change withdosage. We seem to have found levels of the substance and particular conditionsfor its use that give a high probability of a profound and beneficialexperience, a low enough probability of psychological struggle, and very littlerisk of any actual harm."
The researchers said 94 percent of thestudy's 18 participants rated their experiences with psilocybin as among thetop five most or as the top most spiritually significant experience of his orher life at a 14-month follow-up. Eighty-four percent also reported positivechanges in their behaviors, changes like improved relationships with family andothers, increased physical and psychological self-care, and increased devotionto spiritual practice, which were corroborated by family members and others.
"I feel that I relate better in mymarriage," one participant reported. "There is more empathy – agreater understanding of people and understanding their difficulties and lessjudgment."
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The participants, ages 29 to 62, werescreened to include only those who were deemed psychologically and physicallyhealthy. Each participant received five closely-monitored, eight-hourpsilocybin sessions a month apart. Each session had a different dose ofpsilocybin, with one session using a placebo, and was "blind,"meaning neither the participants, the monitors, nor the scientists knew howmuch psilocybin - if any - had been given during any session.
At higher doses of psilocybin, nearly athird of the participants experienced great fear or had delusions, but withgentle guidance from researchers, those reactions did not outlast thepsilocybin session or harm the participants. Those who received lower doses ofthe psychedelic before the higher doses were the most likely to havelong-lasting positive changes in attitudes and behavior.
Potential psychotherapeutic value of'magic mushrooms'
"The Hopkins psilocybin studies clearlydemonstrate that this route to the mystical is not to be walked alone,"Jerome Jaffe, M.D., who served as the first White House "Drug Czar,"commented. "But they have also demonstrated significant and lastingbenefits."
"That raises two questions: Couldpsilocybin-occasioned experiences prove therapeutically useful, for example indealing with the psychological distress experienced by some terminal patients?And should properly-informed citizens, not in distress, be allowed to receivepsilocybin for its possible spiritual benefits, as we now allow them to pursueother possibly risky activities such as cosmetic surgery andmountain-climbing?"
A similar study published in the Archives ofGeneral Psychiatry in January found psilocybin can safelyimprove the moods of patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety.
The study was headed by Dr. Charles S.Grob, a professor of psychiatry at the Los Angeles Biomedical ResearchInstitute at Harbor-UCLAMedical Centerand found a significant improvement of mood and a reduction in symptoms ofanxiety up to six months after receiving psilocybin-assisted therapy.
"We are working with a patientpopulation that often does not respond well to conventional treatments,"said Grob. "Following their treatments with psilocybin, the patients andtheir families reported benefit from the use of this hallucinogen in reducingtheir anxiety. This study shows psilocybin can be administered safely, and thatfurther investigation of hallucinogens should be pursued to determine theirpotential benefits."
Although some may be concerned that arelatively unstudied and illegal substance such as psilocybin could pose healthrisks, a study published in the Psychopharmacologyin 2004 found there is "no cause for concern that [psilocybin] ishazardous with respect to somatic health" in healthy adults.
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The only physiological side-effects thestudy found was a brief increase in blood pressure and a small increase inlevels of thyroid-stimulating-hormone (TSH), prolactin, cortisol, and adrenocorticotropichormone. None of these side-effects were considered dangerous to healthyadults.
"Typically, the experiences after[medium and high doses of psilocybin] were rated positive, with retrospectivestatements ranging from ‘pleasurable’ to ‘ineffably beautiful,’ "according to the study. One volunteer had a fearful experience after beinggiven a high dose of psilocybin, but his anxiety was resolved without the needfor pharmacological intervention.
"We know that psilocybin isremarkably non-toxic to the body’s organ systems," Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.,an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkinsand lead author of an earlier Hopkins paper on hallucinogen safety remarked."But there are indirect risks: if someone experiences high anxiety, fear,or paranoia during a psilocybin session, its not hard to imagine them behavingin ways harmful to themselves or others."
"These risks appear to be minimizedwhen volunteers develop a trusting relationship with a skilled monitor, whoremains present with them for the duration of the substance’s primary effects,and who is available afterwards for consultation." Dvinetalent
Mr.Peele, First, I’d like to compliment you on a truly terrific website. I amhoping to write a book based on psilocybin producing mushrooms, which wouldinclude gas chromatograph analysis of psilocybin concentrations. I was hopingto apply for a research permit, and was curious what was required of you toobtain your permit. Thanks, C.C.
CC.......Iseem to remember a 178 page resume plus many other things. Also, I am in Florida which has no laws on wild mushrooms(Fisk VS FL). I had many problems withthe Federal DEA as well as other people I know like Alexander Shulgin, who hadanother type Scheduled ONE Permit. Theyare impossible to deal with plus have the power to execute criminal charges andfines against you for the simplest or wrong things. They have the power to come in on you at anytime without having warrants or giving any notice. This is their right because you have saidPermit. I gave up my Permit because ofall their problems. Then, about 2 yearslater, they wrote up a bunch of lies about me and stated that they were takingmy Permit away! See what you are dealingwith here? I don't believe any of theDEA Agents that were giving me a hard time, ever once even looked at the PermitI had, as they surely did not know one like I had even existed. It stated that I could possess, manufacture,and distribute. And yet, they were readyto bring charges against me for things I had permission to do. It took two congressmen and several lawyersto finally straighten all their mess up.
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Also,now that you have some idea of what you will be up against, if you contactthem, they will put you under the microscope because they will know what yourinterests are. I do not think they willever again issue any Permits of this type, and they will be watching you.
Myadvice to you is not to contact any law enforcement about any illegal activityyou want to take part in, even to write a book.....grin. The Psilocybin analytical data that thesemushrooms have, has already been published. To include this information in your book would only take some referencehunting and not the collecting and possession of illegal mushrooms. I hope you listen to what I say and takewarning. I know that the information Igive you is the truth. Thank You, foryour interest in FMRC! Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
Hi fmrc, first of all, huge fanof your work. Anyway, I was wondering on thecultivation of A. muscaria var.Muscaria, but more so A. muscariavar. Formosaas I recently printed a nice large specimen. I have several spots on myproperty I could grow them, 8 good sized pine trees, two cedars, as well asothers. I wanted to know how to grow them because I would love to print morefor my collection. I was wondering if itwould even be able to be grown in a liquid culture? Thanks fmrc, Twotails
Twotails.......Your best luck on growing A.muscaria will be with large pine trees. Place the spores in a twoliter bottle and shake good to disperse the spores. Shake good every timeyou inoculate. Dig up around the pine tree to locate small roots. Dispense the spore-water solution all in the area. Cover back up. Do this to 7 - 10 spots around each tree. It may take up to 3 - 5 yearsbefore you will see any mushrooms. Amanita mycelium grows very well onPDA agar. I have never tried this one on liquid culture but would thinkthe PDA done in a liquid, no agar, might do ok. Spores can be a problemon lab media. A live tissue transfer would be better to obtain a good liveculture. Unlike other mushrooms, Amanita have only one section that willgrow mycelium. Stalk and cap material do well with other mushrooms butnot Amanita. Only the tissue in the cap that is connected to a gill, willtransfer and grow. Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC.
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Greetings All, I’ve collected a numberof Sacrament Practicing philosophers lately and wanted you to be aware ofthem. Each song title can be clicked onto download the song…
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Why Magic Mushrooms Make YouHave A Nausea Feeling
First of all, mushrooms are afungus. They have no cellulose cell wall like other plants or veggies. Truth is, mushroomsdigest very easy. If the cell wall of other plants is not broken by chewing orcooking, it pretty much passes through without being digested. A good sign ofthis is something like tomato peelings you might see whole in your stool. Thecell walls were not broken, so they pass through just as they were swallowed.There is no problem with "mush solids" with other edible mushrooms,why should this be a problem here? Factis, Psilocybin is a very
strongalkaloid. It naturally irritates thestomach lining and will bring about this "nausea" feeling. Tea thins it out. Just as taking something"acid" helps adjust it to a salt and stops this from happening. Having a good meal before is a good wayto thin it out. Many think that the lastthing you want is a lot on your stomach because then you have a lot tovomit. Fact is, there will be no nausea, and there will be no hurl. It may be more helpful if you have friedchicken or bacon. Grease seems to helpmore than others. Then, there will besome who are just set in their mind they are going to get sick, and hence,they will no matter what they try.
Whythis does not happen when Crystal of Gods are taken? I have always thought that "Crystal of the Gods"was a bunch of crap and far too much trouble. Psilocybin is not very stable. Itvery easily is changed to Psilocin by metabolic dephosphorylation. Even the production of Psilocybin standardspectrochromatograph cells is difficult because of this. I am sure that when you see the crystals,what you are actually seeing is mostly Psilocin and not Psilocybin. It is this changed Psilocin that produces theexperience. It is this change that happensin the body when mushrooms are eaten. Psilocin is a milder alkaloid than Psilocybin. This change also takes place when tea ismade. Also, when these crystals aretaken, are they just swallowed in pure form, or, are they thinned out with somesort of drink or other carrier? Seewhere I am going here with this? slp/fmrc
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Mushroom Species that contain Psilocybine, Psilocine,Baeocystine and Norbaeocystine
Some analytical datais also listed
This is only a partial listing. The next TEO, February 2012, #39, will include a new paper by Mr. John Allen that will be a more complete listing.
Inocybe aeruginascens
Inocybe coelestium
Inocybe corydalina var. corydalina
Inocybecorydalina var. erinaceomorpha
Inocybehaemacta
Inocybe tricolor
Panaeolus africanus
Panaeolus ater
Panaeolus castaneifolius
Panaeolus microsporus (only in an in vitro grow by Ola’h, U of Laval, Quebec,Canada).
Panaeolus olivaceus
Panaeolus retirugis
Panaeolus subbalteatus (recently renamed by Ewald Gerhardt as P. cinctulus).
Inocybe aeruginascens
Inocybe coelestium
Inocybe corydalina var. corydalina
Inocybecorydalina var. erinaceomorpha
Inocybehaemacta
Inocybe tricolor
Panaeolus africanus
Panaeolus ater
Panaeolus castaneifolius
Panaeolus microsporus (only in an in vitro grow by Ola’h, U of Laval, Quebec,Canada).
Panaeolus olivaceus
Panaeolus retirugis
Panaeolus subbalteatus (recently renamed by Ewald Gerhardt as P. cinctulus).
Analytical Data SPECIES % PSILOCYBIN % PSILOCIN % BAEOCYSTIN REFERENCE P.azurescens 1.78 .38 .35 Stamets andGartz 1995 P. bohemica 1.34 .11 .02 Gartz andMuller 1989; Gartz (1994) P. semilanceata .98 .02 .36 Gartz1994 P. baeocystis .85 .59 .10 Repke etal. 1977; Beug and Bigwood 1982(b) P. cyanescens .85 .36 .03 Stijve andKuyper 1985; Repke et al. 1977
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P. tampanensis .68 .32 n/aGartz 1994 P. cubensis .63 .60 .025 Gartz 1994;Stijve and de Meijer 1993 P. weilii .61 .27 .05 P. hoogshagenii .60 .10 n/a Heim andHofmann 1958 P. stuntzii .36 .12 .02 Beug andBigwood 1982(b); Repke et al. 1977 P. cyanofibrillosa .21 .04 N.A.Stamets et al. 1980 P. liniformans .16 n/d .005 Stijve andKuyper.
Mr. JohnAllen has reviewed this list of Psilocybian Species. The above analytical data was sent to me sometime ago by someone else. Mr. Allenstated that the said analytical data was compiled by Paul Stamets. I hereby give credit to him for thisinformation as I did not know where it came from.
Federal Law Makes It A Criminal Act ToPossess Pot And A Gun
This federal law that states people whopossess pot and have a gun is a criminal act, was not known of by manypeople. Just recently down here on theGulf Coast, Alabama and the rest of us found out about it. A Mobile County Commissioner named Steve Nodine took his city truck to beserviced at the city garage. While goingthrough the truck, city workers found a small bag of pot. They reported it. Steve Nodine owns and has a gun. Even Steve's own attorney said he was notaware of such a law. One person, duringhis trial, stated "This is half of America". He was convicted and sentenced to serve 2years in federal
prisonunder this federal law! If the NRA doesnot address this, any member should contact them and ask why. They should threaten to withdraw theirmembership if it is not addressed and changed. Who shoots more people thandrunks or people on other prescribed hard addictive drugs? Certainly not pot smokers. Another person stated "If you let allthe pot smokers out of prisons and jails, you would have room to keep the realcriminals like killers, child
molestersand the rest of them.....slp/fmrc
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“THE STONED AGES”: Anexcellent documentary that discusses the history of the use of drugs, goingback to prehistoric times and early man’s use of mushrooms. It discussesPsilocybin, Ergot, Opium, LSD and most others. Then, it goes on through up tomodern times, and how we got all these laws we now have on drugs. It wasrecently aired on the History Channel. I supplied many of the photographs andvideo shots used showing mushrooms. Brian Akers PhD, author of “THE SACREDMUSHROOMS OF MEXICO”, goes out collecting mushrooms, in the woods and inpastures. He has some good finds. Well, the hunting was done down here in Florida, so you know itwas good. Other speakers on the subject of mushrooms are Eric Stevens, JoeSpillane PhD, Michael Chezan PhD, Clark Heinrich author “MAGIC MUSHROOMS INRELIGION AND ALCHEMY”, Robert Malenka PhD, Carl Ruck Phd, and many others.While watching the program myself, I was constantly scrutinizing for any wrongstatements or incorrect information. This is one of the very few programs Icould not find anything wrong. It even discusses “Which drugs are safe to putin our bodies”. It is very well done. The running time is about 1 hour 28minutes.
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Mushroom Laws Are Unconstitutional......
The FloridaState Supreme Court
Fisk VS State of Florida
For those who would like to view this documentary, it can beseen here at Edot’s new media URL:
Know The Mushroom Laws In Your Area: Some readers who receive this Journal livein areas where no mushroom laws exist. Others, like those living in the USA, must be aware of laws thatforbid the possession and cultivation of mushrooms that contain controlledsubstances. Psilocybe cubensisis an example of an illegal mushroom in the USA. Some states in the USA even have laws on possessingcertain spores, even though these very same spores grow wild, right in the verysame state. As articles are done on aninternational basis, always keep in mind the laws on these said type mushroomsin your own specific area. Most allareas allow mushroom spore print samples on paper to aid in the identificationof mushrooms found out in the wild. Questions? Check with the lawfrom a pay phone. Write down date, nameand badge # of officer spoken with, to confirm any “no laws” answer given. Thailandand other legal areas, have no mushroom laws to worry about.
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More people have been killed by the actual war on drugsthan by the drugs themselves.
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PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”
Psychoactive MushroomQuiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal. If you know the answer, write it down andmail it in. No phone calls. No E-mail. No FAX. Your entry must be mailedby 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can useAirmail). The first letter that isopened and has the correct answer WINS. What do you win? An entire year’ssubscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE! Your name will be posted with the correctanswer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish yourname”). So, come on and
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impress your mushroom friends with your knowledge. Send your entry to FMRC, “PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523.
Last Issue’s #37 TEO: What type of reaction do Amanita muscariaspores have when placed under Melzer’s Reagent?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer: Nonamyloid.
Winner – Bill Cardell, LA
“PMQ” For this #38 TEO Issue: What are “fascicles”?
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If you see any article about psychoactive mushrooms,past or present, and you think others may like to read it, send it in. If it is used in ”TEO”, you get the freesubscription. If you find a large standof a particular species of psychoactive
mushroom, and are able to collect 4 to 5 good fullsheets of spore prints (enough
to place samples in “TEO”), send them in. If they are accepted, they will be placed in“TEO”, and you get the free subscription. If you send anything in that has to do with psychoactive mushrooms, andit is used (Mail Call letters do not apply), you get the freesubscription. If you do not want yourname mentioned, please state so and we will honor your wishes.
Free subscriptions are Hard Copy Color issues withspore print samples.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: Because of your input to this issue of “TEO”, you are awarded a year’s free subscription. We all thank you for your very helpful input: Bill Cardell for correct PMQ answer, Ray Holmes forcolor picture, and S.S. for free SO361 Spore Print Samples affixed in thisissue.
Please be advised that any postal or electronic mail sent to FMRC and “TEO” becomes their property, and said mail may be used in articles published by FMRC and “TEO”. However, if you ever send something in andyou don’t want your name given, state so and we will follow your wish. If you wish not to be in our records, stateso and you will not be. Any subscriber will, at least, be on our subscription list in order to receive said subscription.
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Teonanacatl Journal Back Issues Available on CD-ROM
Allthe TEO Back Issues #01-#13 on CD-ROM – In Full Color. Just put the disk into your computer and youwill see all the Back Issues #01 - #13 in full color. Order this CD-ROM for only $40.00! Just write down your request and includepayment of $40.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523.
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Submitting Spore Print Samples and Articles to This Journal “TEO”
If anyone has an article or something theywould like to submit to be in "TEO", please submit toFloridaMycology@cs.com or postal mail to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523. If what you send in is used, you win a year’s free subscription to TEO,Hard Copy Issue. Other articles found in newspapers and other print, should be sent postal mail. Any article used earns the sender a year’s freesubscription to “TEO”. “TEO” is thephysical issue of this Journal; “TEO” Electronica is the electronic version ofissue. So, be sure to include your postal address when submitting any article. Mail Call entries earn no free subscription. You may also elect and state not to have yourname published or listed with article. Ideas about regular columns by you are welcomed, as are all
other ideas that you feel will be helpful to this Journal. Because this Journal also comes with spore print samples affixed inside, you may submit mushroom spore printson paper to be placed in this Journal. Several full sheets are needed so that everyone receives a sample. Examples of mushroom spore print samples affixed in past "TEO" Issues: Amanita muscaria, Psilocybe cubensis, Amanitapantherina, Psilocybe azurescens,and Panaeolus foeniscecii/cyanescens.
Spores should be sent to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523. Actual live mushroom spore print samples are affixed into journals for identifying purposes only. They can be compared to suspected found mushroom's spores to help in making a positive identification. No growing claims are made or implied. Any articles, spores, or other submissions that are used earn you a year's free Hard Copy Subscription.
Submitting spore samples for Journal entries entitles you to one year’s free subscription to the"Physical" issues published by FMRC. Only select prints that you are sure of identification. Do not submit samples you cannotidentify. "TMC" and"TEO" ("THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The
Journal Of Mushroom Cultivation (TMC) and"TEONANACATL", The International Journal Of Psychoactive MushroomsTEO), both published by FMRC, still remain the only "Color" mushroomjournals that come with mushroom spore print samples. This is mainly due to reader collection
and the fact it is quite troublesome to place the said samples in this Journal. To this date, I know of no one else who has tried taking on thistask. Mushroom prints should be taken onpaper. Any dark colored spores can betaken on white paper. Light colored orwhite spores should be taken on a dark colored paper. This will ensure contrast and make the spore seasy to see. Seven to nine completesheets should be submitted. Place andaffix (with stapleor tape) cover sheet over each sheet of prints. Send date and place collected.
Because these issues have this unique feature ofmushroom spore print samples to aid in the correct identification of mushroomscollected out in the wild, they have a cut off of 3,000 subscribers. This makes original Hard Copy back issues of"TMC" and "TEO" rare and the most valuable to collect.
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Back Issues of "TEO" Hard Copies, are $10.00 each. When all originals have been sold, Reprint orPhotocopies are made available. CD-ROMsent when these are out (no spore samples or Color Photograph may be affixed).
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The Scheduling Dispatch of This Journal
This Journal's "Hard Copy" is postal mailedthe second week of the Issue's Publication month/date. Because games and prizes offered in thisJournal are restricted to postal mail only, the Electronic Issue is notreleased until 7 days after the postal mailing of the "HardCopy". This is done to prevent unfair advantage if both were released at the same time. To view the
Electronic Issue, go to www.mushroomsfmrc.comthen, click on “TEO Journals”. The FREE Download is made available by donations. To help keep this mycological free service available to all, you maysend your donation in any amount to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523
As you read through TEO, you may come upon misspelled words and other typos. This is because it is the Publisher’s decision to paste articles,emails, and other sent-in items, just as we receive them…errors and all. This also documents the original dispatch of said item.
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#38 “TEO”
November 2011
Mushroom Laws Are Unconstitutional......
The FloridaState Supreme Court
Fisk VS State of Florida
#37 TEO August 2011 $15.00
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Mushroom Journal Subscriptions:If you would like to order a subscription to “TEONANACATL”,you may send request and payment of $30.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523 for one year. Give the postal address and name you would like the “Hard Copy” subscription sent to.
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Subscriptions: You must be at least 18 years of age to subscribe to this Journal. Any subscription request with payment confirms that you are at least this age, and meet "TEO's" age requirements! Otherwise, if you are under 18, collect mushrooms, and wish to have the mushroom spore print samples to insure proper ID, and to prevent accidental poisoning, have your parents subscribe for you. TEO is a Quarterly Publication, and is published 4 times a year, Feb.,May, Aug., and Nov.
Physical Issue (Hard Copy).....Contains actual spore print samples and color photographs inserted. Spores are to be used as standards to compare with mushrooms found out in the wild or involved with mushroom poisonings at Poison Control Centers and ERs at hospitals. As some mushroom spore print samples in this Journal may be capable of producing Controlled Substances, "RESTRICTED ISSUES" (Issues that contain said type spores) will not be mailed into restricted areas such as CA, ID, and GA.
These types of subscribers will be sent "NON-RESTRICTED ISSUES"
(Issues that do not contain said type free spore samples). Because many articles are copy/pasted from emails, spelling and grammar errors may exist. They are left “as is”to show proof of original document. It is mailed to you in a thick plain brownenvelope.
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Know The Mushroom Laws In Your Area: Some readers who receive this Journal livein areas where no mushroom laws exist. Others, like those living in the USA, must be aware of laws thatforbid the possession and cultivation of mushrooms that contain controlledsubstances. Psilocybe cubensisis an example of an illegal mushroom in the USA. As articles are done on an internationalbasis, always keep in mind the laws on these said type mushrooms in your ownspecific area. Most all areas allowmushroom spore print samples on paper to aid in the identification of mushroomsfound out in the wild. Questions? Check with the law from a pay phone. Write down date, name and badge # of officerspoken with, to confirm any “no laws” answer given. Thailand and other legal areas,have no mushroom laws to worry about.
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New Item fromFMRC
FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMNCHROMATOGRAPHY"
isonce again, now available. It is the exact copy of the original 1992 Issue thatchanged things for the people looking for ways to make money with mushrooms.Compounds and other extractions from mushrooms are worth a lot more than themushrooms themselves. Today, mushroom compounds are being used in all kinds of healthproducts, and even skin creams, and vitamins. The November Issue ofEnvironmental Nutrition has an article by Dr. Donald Abrams that states"Ganoderma lucidum extracts are a $1.5 billion world market"! But the real money, some as high as, plus or minus, $100,000.00 per gram!Compounds such as Ibotenic Acid, from Amanita muscaria, sell for over$70.00 per 1 mg! Remember, there are 1,000 mg in 1 gram. Phalloidin from AmanitaPhalloides brings the highest of all the mushroom compounds, over $90.00per 1 mg. These are price quotes from Chemical Supply Companies. Listed in thisguide are other "high priced" mushroom compounds and who sells themand phone numbers, so you will see with your own eyes……..the great wealth inthese compounds.
This special method of chromatography allows you to separate and isolatemushroom compounds. "There is a certain adsorption sequence which allowssubstances to displace themselves from each other. This method of ColumnChromatography uses this natural law. When a special solution is filteredthrough an adsorbent column (a clear plastic one), the pigments that are morestrongly adsorbed displace the more weaker adsorbed ones, and force themfurther down from top to bottom in different colored layers or zones,separating everything." All you do is cut out the section that has thecompound you are looking for.
Explains the whole operation and how easy it is to separate mushroom compounds.
FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY"
ON CD-ROM……………………………………………………..$20.00
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Just pop it into your computer and it will all be there.
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FMRC's "Stimulus Sales"
Financing is now pre-approved with nointerest!
To make both Stimulus Sales, the $300.00total (Overseas and Out of Country may make one extra payment of $70.00 tocomplete the $370.00), more accessible, FMRC will take payments in twomethods. Method One - You send twopayments of $150.00 each. Method Two -You send three payments of $100.00. Thiswill make it possible for even more people to take advantage of these greatoffers during these economic hard times.
This payment schedule has been brought aboutdue to the number of requests we have gotten from people who are having a hardtime coming up with the total amount of $300.00. Now everyone can take advantage of ourStimulus Sales and get both IMGN and Doctors Degree without any hardship. No items are released until the full paymentis received. The best method of makingthese payments is a money order purchased at your local post office made out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523. slp/fmrc Due to the failing economy, FMRC presents the following sales to helpgenerate stimulus within the Mushroom Community. It will be a long time running sale: Independent Mushroom Grower's Network (IMGN). Go for details:
http://www.mushroomsfmrc.com/gpage2.html Normal IMGN Membership Cost.........$200.00 (Out of USA $230.00)
During the Stimulus Sale,your cost is only $150.00!
With well over $700.00 worth of free IMGN benefits, this makes just the $200.00worth of your selection of any free spore samples, from the world's largestmushroom spore bank, even more better! And don't forget the one year'sfree subscription to "THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The Journalof Mushroom Cultivation (TMC). It is your communication's link to what isgoing on in the World of Mushrooms. FMRC's Stimulus Sale#1.....IMGN Lifetime Membership with all benefits $150.00
(Out of USA $180.00) Doctor's Degree Mushroom Correspondence Course. Go for details:
http://www.mushroomsfmrc.com/gpage1.html
This is FMRC's Main Catalog. Scroll down until you come to:
COLLEGEOF BASIDIOMYCETES The Study of Gilled Mushrooms. FMRC was the first to introduce homecorrespondence courses to study mushrooms. Certificate of Completion, fromAssociate to Doctor's are offered. Don't be fooled by "come lately"courses that others have now started. If you want to learn about mushrooms inthe privacy of your home, and do so at your own pace, sign up with the only onethat has more than 30 years of experience. No one else but FMRC can give youthe real training you desire to have. Courses start as low as $100.00.Financing is available and pre-approved!
Tuition Schedule:
Doctor......................$500.00
Master.......................260.00
Bachelor...................180.00
Associate.................100.00
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Additional materials needed to completeDoctor or Master degrees of Completion are all furnished. These may includespecimens, spores, cultures, reagents, and other reading materials like"The Mushroom Researcher ($50.00 value, and "Growing MushroomsWithout Contaminations" (a $25.00 value). Students living outside the US mustadd an additional $40.00 to cover "Out Of Country" Airmail andHandling.
Although our "Certificate of Completion" degrees are nonacademic andcannot be used for credit on academic courses, knowledge obtained through thesecourses can be transferred to academic credits by taking CLEP tests offered bymost major Universities and Colleges. Certificates offered may not beacceptable when obtaining positions where an academic degree is required. Thisis the reason why tuition may sound to be on the "cheap" side. Ifdegrees were accredited through a College or University, this would cause anincrease by thousands of dollars in tuition fees. Back years ago I was told bythe University ofNorth West Florida,"To accredit FMRC's Doctor's Degree would cost over $26,000.00." Andmy cut is not even in that figure. Because many of the subjects discussed arenot offered by most academic institutions, I decided to make them available. Imany times talk to medical doctors from Poison Control Centers, working on identifyingmushrooms involved in mushroom poisonings. They find themselves learning a lotfrom me about identifying mushrooms, especially from spore microscopy andtaking mushroom spore prints on paper to see their color. They openly relay tome how Mushroom ID "Challenged" they really are. When I tell themabout these very same courses and how they can take them at their own pace andtime, they even sign up! These degrees actually show higher specific learningaccomplishments than what most Universities and Colleges offer. Persons holdingacademic degrees can present our "Certificate of Completion" assupplemental credentials, and proof of further learning into the specific areaof Basidiomycetes.
When you order this Stimulus Sale #2, our Doctor's Degree Course, you get allthe needed and provided materials and books that are listed above. Allyou have to do is buy your text book at any book store, the National AudubonSociety…."Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary H.Lincoff. You need a good field guide anyway, and this is really a goodone. It is available from FS Book Store (1-916-771-4203) for under$20.00. "Tell them" FMRC said you had this book.
FMRC's Stimulus Sale #2..........Doctor's Degree Course$200.00
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Purchase both Stimulus sales, #1 IMGN Membership and #2 the Doctor's Mushroomcourse for only.........$300.00! (Out of USA $370.00) That's over$1,200.00 worth of items for just $300.00. Just write down your request on what sale, or both, you want. Makepayment out to FMRC. A postal money order that you buy at your local postoffice is the best method of payment. Personal checks are accepted. Send request and payment to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523.
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When Wrong Laws And Actions Are Made Against Mushrooms
I recently received the following email from an IMGN Memberin Australia. He had ordered FMRC’s entire spore bankcollection:
“I alsoneed to let you know I received a visit from a group of policeofficers recently with a search warrant to my home. They confiscated theentire spore bank collection and are going through and destroying all the Psilocybespores. I will be waiting for them to get into contact with me to return allthe others. I thought I should let you no this as I do not know if they will begetting into contact with you. I hope if they do I have reached you intime. As a result please do not send any more Psilocybe species tomyself or others in Australiaas I do not want to get you in trouble. The only reason I believe they maycontact you is because they took a lot of my research which had your details onthere. I was only half way through labeling the species so I amyet to know how many they will destroy…………The police in Australia are very strict on our postalsystem and have been watching the things I have ordered online (mushroomcultivation books as well as glass ware for chemical extraction) over the lastsix months. Which gave them reason to believe I had bad intentions. It gavethem a right to a search warrant and they were all seized however the onlyones to be destroyed are the Psilocybe, they are illegal to have inyour possession or import. You can’t have anything to do with this speciesI have court on the 20th of this month.”
When checking mushroom lawsgiven on Australia’s Government Pages (http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon32/asp/ex_QueryResults.asp?Commodity=mushrooms&Area=All+Countries&EndUse=Propagation&QueryType=Search), no mention of any mushroom spores are listed. They list certain live cultures on agar andmushroom spawn on sawdust, that are Prohibited. No Psilocybes are even mentioned here. So, it is my thinking that there are no Australian Laws on any Psilocybespores or any mushroom spores for that fact. However, the email clearly states that the police stated they wereillegal. What about all the Psilocybe semilanceata (Liberty Cap)that grow wild right there in Australia? Are people going to jail because they havethis mushroom growing in their front yard? Are they not allowed to take any spore prints from these same saidmushrooms growing in their yard? And whywould they say “No Psilocybes?” Is thisbecause they think all Psilocybe Mushrooms contain the toxins Psilocybin andPsilocin? Mushrooms are not placed inthe Genus Psilocybe because they produce these psychoactive toxins; they areplaced in Psilocybe because the mushrooms themselves have sterile cells knownas “Cystidia”. These are microscopic club-shapedcells with a round head, that appear on the gill’s edge. At one time, Psilocybe cubensis was listed as Stropharia cubensis. Stropharia do not have these sterile cells. So when it was discovered that this mushroomhad them, a new genus Psilocybe, was brought about to separate the two. And what about Psilocybe mushrooms that donot produce any psychoactive toxins like Psilocybemontana ( Psilocybe montana: It does not contain toxins, page 248NORTH AMERICAN MUSHROOMS, by Dr. Orson K. Miller, Jr.2006). According to what the policestated, these would also be illegal, but why? You mean you could go to jail for a mushroom that did not even have anytoxins? That’s pretty bizarre. What’s more bizarre is to name an entireGenus! Its bad enough to just name onemushroom illegal, but an entire Genus? Ican’t even positively identify all these mushrooms without appropriatereferences. I know no common andordinary person could do such a mycological task. I can say in the utmost of confidence, not oneperson involved with making these laws can identify all of the species inPsilocybe. And if its Psilocybin andPsilocin producing mushrooms they are trying to make illegal, what about allthe other many mushrooms in Panaeolus, or Gymnopilus and other Genera thatproduce the said toxins? Are they justgoing to allow those? Can you start to see just how stupid mushroom laws are?
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Mushroomsmust be studied in order to understand them. Even the Florida State Supreme Court ruled that the common and ordinaryperson cannot understand one mushroom from another. As it is stated in the Constitution “Congressshall pass no laws that the common and ordinary person cannot understand”. They ruled that any laws on mushrooms wereunconstitutional. I have asked over2,000 local, county, state, and federal DEA Agents if they could explain to methe difference between a mushroom that is a felony to have, and one that islegal for a salad. Not one has ever beenable to tell me the difference. I alwaysdo this whenever I have the chance. Andyet, they hold us responsible to do what they cannot. How do they get away with this? They send samples to the lab. When the judge opens the report, all he hasto see is “Positive for Psilocybin”. This is a big advantage over the ordinary mushroom collector and it isnot an even playing field.
AndJudges do not even understand mushroom laws or the sentences. I did an article many years ago about a mannamed Guy Bemis in Indiana. He was caught with 40 some grams of Psilocybe cubensis. The judge gave him 6 years in prison. After he had spent 2 years in prison, he wasin the prison’s library one day, reading the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. He read that he should have not gotten morethan the limit of 6 months for the amount of mushrooms he was caught with! He filed a grievance and was released. Human civilization has gotten along just finefor thousands of years before Christ, without having to have laws on mushrooms. Here is a previous article I did in #13 TEOAugust 2005:
Are Mushroom Laws Too Harsh???
When it comes to mushrooms,do any of the laws make sense? People are free to join the Army, be apoliceman, skydive, Bull Fight, base jump, ski in avalanche-prone mountains,drive race cars at over 200 mph, mountain climb, get in the ring with MikeTyson, hang glide, drive an automobile (they say this is the most dangerousthing a person does every day), smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, and go tothe Space Station. Do these activities seem more dangerous than eating amushroom? Do you know how many people died last year from doing these types ofthings? Just smoking and drinking killed well over one-half million! Do youknow how many people died last year from eating a magic mushroom? Not oneperson. That's because Psilocybin is the least toxic of all the knownPsychoactives. Pot, even nicotine andcaffeine, are more lethal. Thisinformation on all the LD/50 claims made here can be found in The MerckIndex. Responsible adults should not beplaced in jails and prisons for such a safe activity. If mushroom laws are toexist, they must be fair! They should be as our Alcohol Laws are (even thoughmushrooms are no way near the problems of alcohol). No driving. No minors. Nosales to minors. Legal "Small Grows" like making your own wine.
I'm telling you that thelocal whiskey store down the street in your area, is responsible for much moreharm to society than any mushroom or mushroom spore, will ever be. And yet, this goes on without anyattention. I have always thought thatany laws written on mushrooms cannot exist. For a plant to be illegal, the public must be put on notice…..the lawrequires that it be named illegal. LikePot, it is named.....like Opium Poppy, it is named. Most common and ordinary people understandthis. Most common and ordinary peopleknow what these plants look like. Ifnot, it is easy for them to learn. Nomushroom (Federal) has ever been named…….No government has the legal right tooutlaw a certain mushroom, especially when the same mushroom grows wild right inthe area that has said type laws. Nogovernment should ever out law any mushroom species, because the normal andordinary person cannot tell one mushroom from another. I bet the people who make these laws cannoteven tell the difference themselves. Sowhy should they think all of us can?
FMRC’s Mushroom Documentary to be used in a “History Channel” Documentary. The producer of the History Channel has contacted me about a special they are coming up with entitled “Drugs and Untold History”. They wanted permission to use parts out of “FRUIT OF THE GODS”. I have given the permission. No date for showing is known right now. I will alert readers of this when I know the date. The “FRUIT OF THE GODS” DVD lists for $86.00. I will run a special to celebrate this new film release by The History Channel. To own your copy of this extraordinary Mushroom Documentary “FRUIT OF THE GODS” simply mail your request and payment of only $25.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL. This special sale ends September 15, 2011. Out of USA Overseas Airmail $30.00. slp/fmrc
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“T E O N A N A C A T L”
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Psilocybe cubensis
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More people have been killed by the actual war on drugs than by the drugs themselves.
Hi Steven, I just finished reading the articles you sent me and they were absolutely fascinating, TMC is a fantastic journal! I understand you are a busy man but your help answering a few questions would be tremendously helpful to my project and would bring positive attention to FMRC.
In your article you state that you have a culture of Pollock's original P. tampanensis strain.Yesterday I visited Gary Lincoff and he expressed some uncertainty thatsclerotia sold in Dutch smart shops are truly derived from the original P.tampanensis specimens he collected with Pollock. One thing Lincoff noted was that the sclerotia Pollock researched were extremely large, the size of"ostrich eggs" in his words––this is significantly smaller than thespecimens I have seen for sale in Holland, so I wonder if you know about thepedigree of the Dutch sclerotia...is it truly from the original P. tampanensis?
You also mention that in the mid 1980s there were only three people in the world, other thanyourself, who possessed cultures of P. tampanensis, later you added two morepeople and stated that one was selling them for $45,000.00. I am veryinterested in the 'chain of custody' of this species and I am curious how thisonce lost mushroom suddenly became commercially available in massive quantitiesi.e. who was preserving the species until the early 2000s?
Looking through your catalog I see that you once sold spore prints for "Psilocybe cubensis (Matias Romero)" this is one of the strains sold by Pollock's Hiddencreek. I have never seen a photograph of this strain (or his "Renaissance cubensis"for that matter) but they have always fascinated me. Could you provide me with photographs or characterize the morphological differences in the Matias Romeroand Renaissance cubensis compared to a more standard P. cubensis?
I was also interested to find mention of traditional Mazatec use of P. mexicana sclerotiain Steven Pollock's camote patent yet I can find no mention of this in anyanthropological or ethnobotanical literature. The mycologist John Allen saidthat the Mazatec have "no knowledge of sclerotia" and that Pollock had fabricated that element of his research. The only source I have, aside from Pollock, for traditional Mazatec use of sclerotia is your article "TheGolden Doorknob" in which you state:
The Zapotec and Mazatec tribes in Mexico use Psilocybe mexicana as a sacred mushroom. They also have used the sclerotia produced by this species for many years. The sacred secret of the sclerotia wasmore heavily guarded than the mushrooms ever were. When found, the finderthought surely he was being looked upon favorable by the Gods. These Indianshave always been very careful about who they passed this secret to.
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Where did youcome across this information?
Lastly, I aminterested in purchasing more copies of your journal, since the issues you sentme are not dated it is difficult to tell which ones I was sent, did you send methe following?
TMC July 1st,1984 #2 case history of Ps. tamp. the works of Dr. Steven Pollock.
TMC, July, 1985#6 Comotillos created by the mushroom Psilocybe tampanensis may be useful inpsychotherapy and the treatment of asthma.
TMC, October1984 #3 Sclerotia produced by Ps. Tamp
If not I wouldlike to purchase them as well as any other articles about P. tampanensis and/orSteven Pollock. I am also interested in purchasing your video Fruit Of TheGods, do you have it on DVD?
Respectfully,
Hamilton
Hamilton: The strain I first got was the one sold by Dr.Pollock from his Hidden Creek Business advertised in High Times Magazine. I never saw it produce the size you speak of,never. The substrate and how it isprepared, plays more of a role as far as the sclerotia size. They have always been more flat-like thanround. Many years ago, I deposited thestrain with the CBS in The Netherlands. I would guess this is where any cultures come from. As I had released it to the world, it wasthere at CBS for anyone who wanted it….hence, it was able to live on and notbecome extinct, and it became commercial. I only released about 5 of them myself to IMGN Members. It was I and another person whose name Iwon’t give because he may not want to be mentioned, that held and protected thePsilocybe tampanensis for all thoseyears. I was told one time that PaulStamets even lost the culture he had. During the two hurricanes Opal and Erin,and the time between them, I had many 50 pound straw bales set outside andfruiting Psilocybe tampanensis. Thousands of these mushrooms were allowed tosend spores into the air in hopes it would once again become established in thewild. Since, it has been reported from AL. I had 914 separate strains at one time Iproduced from spore cultures.
The Matias Romero would produce rather large specimens. Don’t have any information on the otherone. Silva Caperton told me the story ofthe Psilocybe mexicanasclerotia. He hunted with the Indians inMexicoin the late 1950’s.
I would think you got all the articles that pertained to thesaid subject. “FRUIT OF THE GODS” is only available nowin DVD. Highest Regards, Stephen L.Peele
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“Do you know how many people died last year from eating a magic mushroom? Notone person. That's because Psilocybin is the least toxic of all the knownPsychoactives. Pot, even nicotine and caffeine, are more lethal. Thisinformation on all the LD/50 claims made here can be found in The Merck Index.”
I have been asked several times to clear this up. One person in a chat room said that I did nothave to lie…..grin. So, here is the realpoop once and for all. slp/fmrc
The LD50 test determines the dosage of a substancethat will kill 50% of the animals given that dosage. The LD50 value is thatdosage which kills 50% of the animals. The LD50 value for a substance will varyaccording to the species involved. The substance may be administered any numberof ways, including orally, topically, intravenously, or through inhalation. Themost commonly used species for these tests are rats, mice, rabbits, and guineapigs. Substances tested might include household products, drugs or pesticides.It gives the amount of the substance required (usually per body weight) to kill50% of the test population. LD50 figures are frequently used as a general wayto tell how poisonous a substance is.
The following quotes are from the 10th Edition of The Merck Index:
Psilocybin, page 1143...........LD50 in mice 275 mg/kg
POT - THC - Tetrahydrocannabinol, page 1318.......LD50 in mice 27.5 mg/kg
Nicotine, page 935........LD50/ in mice 0.3 iv
Caffeine, page 226.........LD50 in mice 127
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Freedom in the Fullest
Dear Reader,
Today I'd like to share with you another"happening" produced by Psilocybin - that fruiting body for whichJesus died. It was some where between 1997 and the year 2000 when I receivedthis vision. My sweetheart and later tobe wife - had with respect - understood that I wanted to do a mushroomcommunion. It was Saturday, the Sabbathin the afternoon and she wanted to watch television while I journeyedupstairs. The problemwas that the TV was directly under the only closet with room for me... Not being totally compassionate I told herthat the TV would greatly detract from my experience. This wasn't sitting well, she "wouldhave her TV or else..."
I took my seven grams of dried cubensis in boiled tea withhoney and prepared to ascend the stairs. As my foot touched the landing our power went out as did half of thecity of
Capitola. She and Iexchanged knowing looks as she found a book and the couch.
Once in the closet (see footnote) I began to have a visionof the fallen angel of Tobacco
addiction. As I'vestated in earlier journal articles, this addiction was broken for me
by the use of Magic Mushrooms - the Hand of God (you takeyour p
Essentially what was happening was that a holy angel of Godwas fighting with the fallen
angel of Tobacco to free me from its addiction. Now I hadn't smoked in 2-3 years but I
didn't want anything to do with cigarettes again ever. Yet the voice of the LORD explained that hewanted to use cigarettes to reach out to "Lost Sheeple." I don’t buy the wicked things and I don’tmiss them but I’ve connected to some worth people via this… Eventually I understood this and ever sinceif I meet a smoker who looks "promising" -I "break thatbread" with them. All of this issummed up in Jesus' cryptic words:
"my followers will be able to handle poisonous serpentsand not be bit."
In the Hellenized world of Jesus' day the Greek influenceshould not be overlooked.
To the Greeks all medical "plants" were bitten byserpents - as they supposed that
This bit attributed to them their medical properties. So no, Jesus was not saying 'if you believein me you should be able to dance with a Rattlesnake.' -Thou there are those that do... He was saying that addiction would
hold no power over his followers. Keep the Faith,
Rv. Matthew N. Wyman DD.
PS. The power cameback on in time to make dinner...
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Curator of Anthropology
John Allen,MushroomJohn
Dr. KarlBuchanan
Mushroomsand Religion Editor, Rv. Matthew N. Wyman, DD
Pictorial Illustrations,SH
Stephen L.Peele, Chief Editor
“Restricted”Journal Issues Contain:
Color Photograph& Actual “Live” Mushroom Spore Print Sample (Sealed And AffixedInside)
Contents
#36“TEO” Mushroom Journal
May 2011
Mushroom Journal Subscription Rates and other JournalInformation……01
FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY”………….02
FMRC's "Stimulus Sales"…………………………….03
ColorPhotograph of Postage Stamp showing Psilocybe cubensis………..05
FMRC’s E N T IR E S P O R E B A N K S A L E……....06
Mushroom Journal CD ROMs………………………………………………….06
PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”…………………..07
How to Win a Year’s Free Subscription to “TEO”…………………..07
Winners of FREE TEO Subscriptions…………………………………..……..07
Submitting Spore PrintSamples and Articles to This Journal “TEO”………08
How to place an ad inTEO…………………………………………………….08
Culture Flask…..Is this yourlast issue on subscription?.............................09
Mushroom Journal Subscriptions:If you would like to order a subscription to “TEONANACATL”,you may send request and payment of $30.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523 for oneyear. Give the postal address and nameyou would like the “Hard Copy” subscription sent to.
Copyright Information: This Journal is copyrighted under International Law, and all said lawsapply. Any material that finds its wayinto this Journal and has already been copyrighted elsewhere, retains originalcopyright. Authors and photographers whosubmit material in this Journal are not restricted from using their work, orthe sale thereof. Persons may reprint ortransmit this document only in its complete and original form. No parts, articles, photographs, or any otherpartial pieces may be removed from this document. If you have any questions about reprinting orre-transmitting, call 1.850.327.4378 and ask for Stephen L. Peele. Copies of this document can be given awayfreely for academic or information purposes. Any sale, placement, or display in any media that involves the transferof money, of document, or parts of, is a violation of Copyright.
Subscriptions: You must be at least 18 years of age tosubscribe to this Journal. Anysubscription request with payment confirms that you are at least this age, andmeet "TEO's" age requirements! Otherwise, if you are under 18, collect mushrooms, and wish to have themushroom spore print samples to insure proper ID, and to prevent accidentalpoisoning, have your parents subscribe for you. TEO is a Quarterly Publication, and is published 4 times a year, Feb.,May, Aug., and Nov.
Physical Issue (Hard Copy).....Contains actualspore print samples and color photographs inserted. Spores are to be used as standards to comparewith mushrooms found out in the wild or involved with mushroom poisonings at Poison ControlCenters and ERs athospitals. As some mushroom spore printsamples in this Journal may be capable of producing Controlled Substances, "RESTRICTEDISSUES" (Issues that contain said type spores) will not be mailed intorestricted areas such as CA, ID, and GA.
These types of subscribers will be sent "NON-RESTRICTEDISSUES"
(Issues that do not contain said type freespore samples). Because many articles are copy/pasted from emails, spelling and grammarerrors may exist. They are left “as is”to show proof of original document. It is mailed to you in a thick plain brownenvelope.
Subscription rates: One year’s subscription $30.00 (Outside ofUSA $50.00), Two year’s subscription$50.00 (Outside of USA $90.00), Threeyear’s subscription $70.00 (Outside of USA $130.00). “Lifetime” subscription is $1,000.00 (Outsideof USA $2,000.00). Make payment out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523.
The Hard Copy Issues are $10.00 each. When all originals are sold,"REPRINT" or photocopies are provided (these issues may not containany color photographs or spore print samples). The only way to insure getting a complete issue is to subscribe and getoriginal Issues. Current Issue$15.00.
How Many Issues Do I Have Left on my"TEO" Hard Copy Subscription? Check the number right after your first name or above the businessaddress on your mailing label. This ishow many issues are left on your current subscription. Also see "Culture Flask": If your culture flask has a RED Contaminantin it......this is your last issue! Please re-subscribe. There may beno other further notices. Send paymentnow while it is on your mind. That wayyou will never miss an issue!
Know The Mushroom Laws In Your Area: Some readers who receive this Journal livein areas where no mushroom laws exist. Others, like those living in the USA, must be aware of laws thatforbid the possession and cultivation of mushrooms that contain controlledsubstances. Psilocybe cubensisis an example of an illegal mushroom in the USA. As articles are done on an internationalbasis, always keep in mind the laws on these said type mushrooms in your ownspecific area. Most all areas allowmushroom spore print samples on paper to aid in the identification of mushroomsfound out in the wild. Questions? Check with the law from a pay phone. Write down date, name and badge # of officerspoken with, to confirm any “no laws” answer given. Thailand and other legal areas,have no mushroom laws to worry about.
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New Item fromFMRC
FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMNCHROMATOGRAPHY"
isonce again, now available. It is the exact copy of the original 1992 Issue thatchanged things for the people looking for ways to make money with mushrooms.Compounds and other extractions from mushrooms are worth a lot more than themushrooms themselves. Today, mushroom compounds are being used in all kinds ofhealth products, and even skin creams, and vitamins. The November Issue ofEnvironmental Nutrition has an article by Dr. Donald Abrams that states"Ganoderma lucidum extracts are a $1.5 billion world market"! But the real money, some as high as, plus or minus, $100,000.00 per gram!Compounds such as Ibotenic Acid, from Amanita muscaria, sell for over$70.00 per 1 mg! Remember, there are 1,000 mg in 1 gram. Phalloidin from AmanitaPhalloides brings the highest of all the mushroom compounds, over $90.00per 1 mg. These are price quotes from Chemical Supply Companies. Listed in thisguide are other "high priced" mushroom compounds and who sells themand phone numbers, so you will see with your own eyes……..the great wealth inthese compounds.
This special method of chromatography allows you to separate and isolatemushroom compounds. "There is a certain adsorption sequence which allowssubstances to displace themselves from each other. This method of ColumnChromatography uses this natural law. When a special solution is filteredthrough an adsorbent column (a clear plastic one), the pigments that are morestrongly adsorbed displace the more weaker adsorbed ones, and force themfurther down from top to bottom in different colored layers or zones, separatingeverything." All you do is cut out the section that has the compound youare looking for.
Explains the whole operation and how easy it is to separate mushroom compounds.
FMRC's "GUIDE TO COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY"
ON CD-ROM……………………………………………………..$20.00
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FMRC's "Stimulus Sales"
Financing is now pre-approved with nointerest!
To make both Stimulus Sales, the $300.00total (Overseas and Out of Country may make one extra payment of $70.00 tocomplete the $370.00), more accessible, FMRC will take payments in twomethods. Method One - You send twopayments of $150.00 each. Method Two -You send three payments of $100.00. Thiswill make it possible for even more people to take advantage of these greatoffers during these economic hard times.
This payment schedule has been brought aboutdue to the number of requests we have gotten from people who are having a hardtime coming up with the total amount of $300.00. Now everyone can take advantage of ourStimulus Sales and get both IMGN and Doctors Degree without any hardship. No items are released until the full paymentis received. The best method of makingthese payments is a money order purchased at your local post office made out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523. slp/fmrc Due to the failing economy, FMRC presents the following sales to helpgenerate stimulus within the Mushroom Community. It will be a long time running sale: Independent Mushroom Grower's Network (IMGN). Go for details:
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During the Stimulus Sale,your cost is only $150.00!
With well over $700.00 worth of free IMGN benefits, this makes just the $200.00worth of your selection of any free spore samples, from the world's largestmushroom spore bank, even more better! And don't forget the one year'sfree subscription to "THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The Journalof Mushroom Cultivation (TMC). It is your communication's link to what isgoing on in the World of Mushrooms. FMRC's Stimulus Sale#1.....IMGN Lifetime Membership with all benefits $150.00
(Out of USA $180.00) Doctor's Degree Mushroom Correspondence Course. Go for details:
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This is FMRC's Main Catalog. Scroll down until you come to:
COLLEGEOF BASIDIOMYCETES The Study of Gilled Mushrooms. FMRC was the first to introduce homecorrespondence courses to study mushrooms. Certificate of Completion, fromAssociate to Doctor's are offered. Don't be fooled by "come lately"courses that others have now started. If you want to learn about mushrooms inthe privacy of your home, and do so at your own pace, sign up with the only onethat has more than 30 years of experience. No one else but FMRC can give youthe real training you desire to have. Courses start as low as $100.00.Financing is available and pre-approved!
Tuition Schedule:
Doctor......................$500.00
Master.......................260.00
Bachelor...................180.00
Associate.................100.00
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Additional materials needed to completeDoctor or Master degrees of Completion are all furnished. These may includespecimens, spores, cultures, reagents, and other reading materials like"The Mushroom Researcher ($50.00 value, and "Growing Mushrooms WithoutContaminations" (a $25.00 value). Students living outside the USmust add an additional $40.00 to cover "Out Of Country" Airmail andHandling.
Although our "Certificate of Completion" degrees are nonacademic andcannot be used for credit on academic courses, knowledge obtained through thesecourses can be transferred to academic credits by taking CLEP tests offered bymost major Universities and Colleges. Certificates offered may not beacceptable when obtaining positions where an academic degree is required. This isthe reason why tuition may sound to be on the "cheap" side. Ifdegrees were accredited through a College or University, this would cause anincrease by thousands of dollars in tuition fees. Back years ago I was told bythe University ofNorth West Florida,"To accredit FMRC's Doctor's Degree would cost over $26,000.00." Andmy cut is not even in that figure. Because many of the subjects discussed arenot offered by most academic institutions, I decided to make them available. Imany times talk to medical doctors from Poison Control Centers, working onidentifying mushrooms involved in mushroom poisonings. They find themselveslearning a lot from me about identifying mushrooms, especially from sporemicroscopy and taking mushroom spore prints on paper to see their color. Theyopenly relay to me how Mushroom ID "Challenged" they really are. WhenI tell them about these very same courses and how they can take them at theirown pace and time, they even sign up! These degrees actually show higher specificlearning accomplishments than what most Universities and Colleges offer.Persons holding academic degrees can present our "Certificate ofCompletion" as supplemental credentials, and proof of further learninginto the specific area of Basidiomycetes.
When you order this Stimulus Sale #2, our Doctor's Degree Course, you get allthe needed and provided materials and books that are listed above. Allyou have to do is buy your text book at any book store, the National AudubonSociety…."Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary H.Lincoff. You need a good field guide anyway, and this is really a goodone. It is available from FS Book Store (1-916-771-4203) for under$20.00. "Tell them" FMRC said you had this book.
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Purchase both Stimulus sales, #1 IMGN Membership and #2 the Doctor's Mushroomcourse for only.........$300.00! (Out of USA $370.00) That's over$1,200.00 worth of items for just $300.00. Just write down your request on what sale, or both, you want. Makepayment out to FMRC. A postal money order that you buy at your local postoffice is the best method of payment. Personal checks are accepted. Send request and payment to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523.
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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 #36 “TEO” May 2011
Psilocybe cubensis
The above postage stamp givesold name Stropharia cubensis. Photograph is from FMRC’s CD-ROM PostageStamps showing mushrooms. The CD showinghundreds of mushrooms, can be ordered for only $20.00 from FMRC.
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FMRC’s E N T I R E S P O R E B A N K S A L E
Forthose who have not seen this Saleposted on FMRC’s Website: The EntireMushroom Spore Bank, over 200 different Samples, is on sale for only$1,000.00! And, when any new species arelisted in the Bank, and you have an interest in receiving it, just let us knowthat you purchased the Entire Collection before. Any samples that are currently out of stock,can be freely requested at any time in the future. Just make the request and it will be shippedright off to you at no charge!
Thisentire massive collection, the World’s Largest Mushroom Spore Bank of its typesince 1972, can be inspected and downloaded at www.mushroomsfmrc.com.
Tobe the proud owner of this entire spore bank collection, simply mail in yourrequest for the Entire Mushroom Spore Sample Collection, held at FMRC. The best method of payment is a
PostalMoney Order that you buy at your local Post Office. For “Out of Country” payment, send a WesternUnion Postal Money Order, or other check that is drawn on a USA Bank. Send your request and payment made out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523. If you live in CA, ID or GA, where many of the spore samples are illegal…..noproblem. Just send $830.00 and none ofthe illegal samples in your area will be included. Otherwise, you must send a legal stateshipping address for the entire collection.
Call 1-916-771-4203 and find out how to gettheir Catalog! Tell them “I saw yourCatalog Ad in the “TEO” Mushroom Journal by FMRC.”
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PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”
Psychoactive MushroomQuiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal. If you know the answer, write it down andmail it in. No phone calls. No E-mail. No FAX. Your entry must be mailedby 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can useAirmail). The first letter that isopened and has the correct answer WINS. What do you win? An entire year’ssubscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE! Your name will be posted with the correctanswer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish yourname”). So, come on and impress your mushroom friends with yourknowledge. Send your entry to FMRC,“PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523.
Last Issue’s #35 TEO: What is the maindifference between Liquid Media and Agar Media?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer: Liquid Media has no Agar.
Winner – Mack D, IN
“PMQ” For this #36 TEO Issue: Whattype of reaction do Psilocybe cubensis spores have when placedunder Melzer’s Reagent?
How to Win a Year’s Free Subscription to“TEO”
If you see any article about psychoactive mushrooms,past or present, and you think others may like to read it, send it in. If it is used in ”TEO”, you get the freesubscription. If you find a large standof a particular species of psychoactive mushroom, and are able to collect 4 to5 good full sheets of spore prints (enough
to place samples in “TEO”), send them in. If they are accepted, they will be placed in“TEO”, and you get the free subscription. If you send anything in that has to do with psychoactive mushrooms, andit is used (Mail Call letters do not apply), you get the freesubscription. If you do not want yourname mentioned, please state so and we will honor your wishes.
Free subscriptions are Hard Copy Color issues withspore print samples.
CONGRATULATIONSTO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: Because of yourinput to this issue of “TEO”, you are awarded a year’s free subscription. We all thank you for your very helpful input: Mack D for correct PMQ answer, JW for Psilocybecubensis Mushroom Spore Print Samples FREE in this Issue, Robert Parish for“Liberty Cap” Identification of, and Sam Brown for Psychoactive CompoundActivates Mysterious Receptor.
Please be advised that any postal orelectronic mail sent to FMRC and “TEO” becomes their property, and said mailmay be used in articles published by FMRC and “TEO”. However, if you ever send something in andyou don’t want your name given, state so and we will follow your wish. If you wish not to be in our records, stateso and you will not be. Any subscriberwill, at least, be on our subscription list in order to receive saidsubscription.
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Teonanacatl Journal Back Issues Available on CD-ROM
Allthe TEO Back Issues #01-#13 on CD-ROM – In Full Color. Just put the disk into your computer and youwill see all the Back Issues #01 - #13 in full color. Order this CD-ROM for only $40.00! Just write down your request and includepayment of $40.00 made out to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523.
Submitting Spore Print Samples andArticles to This Journal “TEO”
If anyone has an article or something theywould like to submit to be in "TEO", please submit toFloridaMycology@cs.com or postal mail to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523. If what you send in is used, you win a year’s free subscription to TEO,Hard Copy Issue. Other articles found innewspapers and other print, should be sent postal mail. Any article used earns the sender a year’s freesubscription to “TEO”. “TEO” is thephysical issue of this Journal; “TEO” Electronica is the electronic version ofissue. So, be sure to include yourpostal address when submitting any article. Mail Call entries earn no free subscription. You may also elect and state not to have yourname published or listed with article. Ideas about regular columns by you are welcomed, as are all
other ideas that you feel will be helpfulto this Journal. Because this Journal also comeswith spore print samples affixed inside, you may submit mushroom spore printson paper to be placed in this Journal. Several full sheets are needed so that everyone receives a sample. Examples of mushroom spore print samplesaffixed in past "TEO" Issues: Amanita muscaria, Psilocybe cubensis, Amanitapantherina, Psilocybe azurescens,and Panaeolus foeniscecii/cyanescens.
Spores should be sent to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523. Actual live mushroom spore print samples areaffixed into journals for identifying purposes only. They can be compared to suspected foundmushroom's spores to help in making a positive identification. No growing claims are made or implied. Any articles, spores, or other submissions thatare used earn you a year's free Hard Copy Subscription.
Submitting spore samples for Journalentries entitles you to one year’s free subscription to the"Physical" issues published by FMRC. Only select prints that you are sure of identification. Do not submit samples you cannotidentify. "TMC" and"TEO" ("THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The Journal Of MushroomCultivation (TMC) and "TEONANACATL", The International Journal Of PsychoactiveMushrooms TEO), both published by FMRC, still remain the only "Color"mushroom journals that come with mushroom spore print samples. This is mainly due to reader collection
and the fact it is quite troublesome toplace the said samples in this Journal. To this date, I know of no one else who has tried taking on this task. Mushroom prints should be taken onpaper. Any dark colored spores can betaken on white paper. Light colored orwhite spores should be taken on a dark colored paper. This will ensure contrast and make the sporeseasy to see. Seven to nine complete sheetsshould be submitted. Place and affix(with staple ortape) cover sheet over each sheet of prints. Send date and place collected.
Because these issues have this unique feature ofmushroom spore print samples to aid in the correct identification of mushroomscollected out in the wild, they have a cut off of 3,000 subscribers. This makes original Hard Copy back issues of"TMC" and "TEO" rare and the most valuable to collect.
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Back Issues of "TEO" Hard Copies, are $10.00 each. When all originals have been sold, Reprint orPhotocopies are made available. CD-ROMsent when these are out (no spore samples or Color Photograph may be affixed).
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The Scheduling Dispatch of This Journal
This Journal's "Hard Copy" is postal mailedthe second week of the Issue's Publication month/date. Because games and prizes offered in thisJournal are restricted to postal mail only, the Electronic Issue is notreleased until 7 days after the postal mailing of the "HardCopy". This is done to preventunfair advantage if both were released at the same time. To view the
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As you read through TEO, youmay come upon misspelled words and other typos. This is because it is the Publisher’s decision to paste articles,emails, and other sent-in items, just as we receive them…errors and all. This also documents the original dispatch ofsaid item.
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Identification of
Cap: Slimy, narrowly conical (coneshaped), brown to tan cap, usually twice as tall as wide, often with a “peak”or a noticeable nipple in the center. May bruise blue around the margin. Has brownish gills and smooth, off-white stalk, in areas of manure andpastures. Margin striate and translucent when moist with a sticky gelatinouspellicle.
Gills: The are attached to the stalk, crowded and close, grayish at first, thenturning dark brown.
Stalk: 2 – 4 inches (1 to 5 cm) long. Pale off white to rusty brown. Somewhattough stalk which will wrap around your finger without breaking. May sometimes blue from bruising.
Spores: 12-14 x 7-8 microns, elliptical, smooth, with pore at tip.
Spore print color: Dark Purple Brown.
Habitat: Scattered to many in pasture lands but not growing directly in
manure as also like Psilocybe mexicana. Also common in lawns, fields or othergrassy areas, especially where cattle and sheep are kept. It is also common around the base of sedgegrass clumps.
Distribution: Oregon Coast , northern Californiato British Columbia, Canada, west of the Cascades and along thecoastal areas of northern California.
Also is common on golf courses and large meadows.
Season: August through November.
Dosage: 20 to 40 fresh mushrooms or from 1-3 grams dried.
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Found in the Northern temperate zone, growingnear the coastline
and up to a thousand miles from the ocean. You can find it in North-western
U.S.Great Britain, Scandinavia,and west Europe. To be found in tall grasses
and on cow fields in the fall. It doesnot grow on dung or in forests.
Recent ecological studies have shown that Psilocybe semilanceata mycelium
does not form mycorrhizal growth with grass roots. What happens is the mycelium invades andconsumes already dead root parts in a nutritional strategy edging
towards parasitism. This behavior may explain some of the difficulties
encountered in the artificial culture of liberty caps, as well as their habitat
preferences. They enjoy dung-enriched soils of various concentrations but
also have clear adaptations for exploiting grass root systems.
References used: Pics from Astraalialma, Field Guide to North AmericanMushrooms by Gary Lincoff, and a post once made by waylightjim. Article submitted by Robert Parish.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ahallucinogenic compound found in a plant indigenous to SouthAmerica and used in shamanic rituals regulates a mysteriousprotein that is abundant throughout the body, University of Wisconsin-Madisonresearchers 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.
Scientists have been searching for years fornaturally occurring compounds that trigger activity in the protein, the sigma-1receptor. In addition, a unique receptor for the hallucinogen, calleddimethyltryptamine (DMT), has never been identified. The UW-Madison researchersmade the unusual pairing by doing their initial work the"old-fashioned," yet still effective, way. They diagrammed thechemical structure of several drugs that bind to the sigma-1 receptor, reducedthem to their simplest forms and then searched for possible natural moleculeswith the same features. Biochemical, physiological and behavioral experimentsproved that DMT does, in fact, activate the sigma-1 receptor. "We have noidea at present if or how the sigma-1 receptor may be connected to hallucinogenicactivity," says senior author Arnold Ruoho, chair of pharmacology at theUW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. "But we believe that theNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) may be interested in biologicalmechanisms underlying psychoactive and addictive drug action."
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In addition to being a component of psychoactivesnuffs and sacramental teas used in native religious practices in Latin America, DMT is known to be present in somemammalian tissues, and it has also been identified in mammalian blood andspinal fluid. Elevated levels of DMT and a related molecule have been found inthe urine of schizophrenics.
Ruoho speculates that the hallucinogen's involvementmay mean that the sigma-1 receptor is connected in some fashion to psychoactivebehavior. When his team injected DMT into mice known to have the receptor, theanimals became hyperactive; mice in which the receptor had been geneticallyremoved did not.
"Hyperactive behavior is often associatedwith drug use or psychiatric problems," says Ruoho. "It's possiblethat new, highly selective drugs could be developed to inhibit the receptor andprevent this behavior."
The study revealed an additional neurologic linkby confirming that the sigma-1 receptor and some compounds that bind to itinhibit ion channels, which are important for nerve activity. Work by manyresearchers — including some from UW-Madison — initially showed thisrelationship in earlier studies.
Some studies have also linked the receptor to theaction 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 Wisconsinresearchers found that DMT is derived from the naturally occurring amino acidtryptophan and is structurally related to the neurotransmitter serotonin. Thisfinding, Ruoho says, illustrates the mantra often used in the biologicalprocessing of natural molecules: Nothing goes to waste.
"Our findings support the idea thatbiochemical alterations of molecules such as tryptophan can produce simplecompounds such as DMT that may target other regulatory pathways served bysigma-1 receptors," he says.
DMT may also reflect the presence of an evenlarger family of natural compounds that arise from other structurally relatedamino 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 andorgan-specific ways," he says.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison. Been around for awhile but I thought this was pretty interesting. Sam Brown, NV.
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From Mr. John Allen:
My entirewebsite (15,000 photos, dozens of articles and my books, included), all myphotos of 35-years, my art collection and three filing cabinets and all mybooks, my recording with the Beatles and my six cameras and computer are forsale. If not sold by Thanksgiving I intend to put everything into thetrash. What I offer is worth a fortune and a life-time of studies. I want $10,000 for all.
JohnAllen.
I wish toretire in SE Asia in northern Cambodia. John
If anyonewishes to contact Mr. John Allen (MushroomJohn) they may email S.L. Peele at floridamycology@cs.comand I will put them in touch.
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Amanita phalloides Being Found in Washington State................................03
TeaFrom Mycelium Spent Cakes or Grains................................................03
Mushroomsand Religion......Ladder Which Can Get You Into Heaven.......03
SomeAdditional Info on IMGN Membership................................................06
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isonce again, now available. It is the exact copy of the original 1992 Issue thatchanged things for the people looking for ways to make money with mushrooms.Compounds and other extractions from mushrooms are worth a lot more than themushrooms themselves. Today, mushroom compounds are being used in all kinds ofhealth products, and even skin creams, and vitamins. The November Issue ofEnvironmental Nutrition has an article by Dr. Donald Abrams that states"Ganoderma lucidum extracts are a $1.5 billion world market"! But the real money, some as high as, plus or minus, $100,000.00 per gram!Compounds such as Ibotenic Acid, from Amanita muscaria, sell for over$70.00 per 1 mg! Remember, there are 1,000 mg in 1 gram. Phalloidin from Amanita Phalloides brings the highest of all the mushroom compounds, over $90.00per 1 mg. These are price quotes from Chemical Supply Companies. Listed in thisguide are other "high priced" mushroom compounds and who sells themand phone numbers, so you will see with your own eyes……..the great wealth inthese compounds.
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2- Remain silent. What you don't say can't hurt you.
3 - You have the right to refuse searches.
4 - Don't get tricked. Remember, Police are allowed to lie to you.
5 - Determine if you are free to go. Police need evidence to detain you.
6 - Don't expose yourself. Doing dumb stuff in public makes you an easytarget.
7 - Don't run. They will catch you and make you regret it.
8 - Never touch a cop. Aggressive actions will only give you aggressiveresponse.
9 - Report misconduct. Be a good witness.
10-You Do not have to let them in. Police need a warrant to enter yourhome.
Theymust have Probable Cause to do any of the things mentioned here, when you havesaid “NO”. Many times the “incorrectterm” Reasonable Suspicion” is used. TheConstitution says they must have Probable Cause. There is a big difference. Sent in by Del Carr
Amanita phalloides Being Found in Washington State
Oct19, 2010
Local public health officials last week offered a piece of advice to forestforagers: beware.
Public Health – Seattle & King County called for mushroom foragers toexercise caution after a poisoning related to the Amanita phalloides — or death cap — species of mushroom.
Eating the poisonous mushroom landed a Bellevuewoman in the hospital last month, but she has since recovered.
The deadly poisonous Amanita phalloides mushroom has been spotted often in forests and backyards throughout the fall.
“It takes extensive knowledge to know which mushrooms are safe to eat and whichare poisonous,” Dr. David Fleming, Public Health – Seattleand King County director and health officer, saidlast week. “Amanita phalloides lookvery much like some edible types of mushrooms and increasingly can be found inthe wild, in local parks and even in our own backyards.” JD
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Tea From MyceliumSpent Cakes or Grains
Hereis the thing about mycelium. It is the mycelium that rebuilds itself intoa mushroom. You must have 5 grams of mycelium produced to yield a 5 grammushroom, or 5 grams of mushrooms. The mycelium, by weight, will bepretty close to the mushrooms, by analytical data. What usually happens,is you only have 1 gram of mycelium in all that other stuff, and when you getfinished, you are expecting something from a 20 gram mushroom. Its justnot going to happen. If you think there maybe 20 or better grams ofmycelium, then you might have something. slp/fmrc
I’m sending this along as a ladder which can get you into Heaven. Itis written by a fellow worker in the field.
I’ve read it and I agree with the major concepts – if your receiving thisits cause I think you can hear its wisdom…
In What I Call Devine Love, Matthalamew
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PS… Just suppose we are not alone, and that everyone else is not necessarilygood…
This is my blog posting on www.resistance2010.com, and I consider this information VITAL, so please read all the way through it before calling me ablasphemer etc as I believe in Christ.. Watch me connect the dots:
If you are offended by my need to connect these dots, please don't read anyfurther, and delete this message: The information below is extremely controversial.You have been WARNED... GalacticFederation of Light DEFEATED by mushrooms *EXTREMELY IMPORTANT*
Anyone who supports the Galactic Federation of Light is supporting their owndeception. They are evolved reptilian fallen angels serving under the greatgalactic EMPIRE. Lucifer is their leader, yet they portray him as the Christ.The truth is that the Christ lives within you. I have unlocked the doors tothis Christ through the use of psilocybin mushrooms. In Sumerian text, Christ means anointed, so to become anointed one can say that you must also beChristed; therefore, Christ was an experience, not a person. To relive theexperience of Christ, one must go deep within, yet with the poisons in the air,the fluoridation of the water, and the poisons in our food, we find ourselvesusually in a catch-22 scenario wondering sometimes if the spiritual world iseven real. Well, I am here to bring the good news friends, the spiritual worldis very real, and going within is easier than ever with the right tools. Thecreator God lives within us. These tools were kept secret in manuscripts underKing Solomon's temple by the Knight's Templar which later merged with theStonemasons to become what we know of today as the Freemasons.
The tools to learning how to reconnect with that inner Christ are psilocybin mushrooms. They give you the ability to go to the deepest levels of meditationthat the human mind can endure. They give you the ability to dream whileconsciously awake allowing you to visit both the spiritual world and thephysical world at the same time. We call this the 4th dimension.
Being an experienced cultivator, I can tell you from personal experience thatthe secrets of these mushrooms have been suppressed for many thousands ofyears, for they give us that spark of creativity that we need to overcome anyobjection, and they allow us to live in love without fear without any worry ofdeath. They are the proof showing you that you have a soul. You see, if youtrace our roots far back enough, we are genetically related to the mushroom,and according to Paul Stamets (world renowned mycologist) they very well couldbe our ancient ancestors. We both breath oxygen, and we both exhale CO2. Thepenis even resembles a mushroom, and they like us, live in perfect symbiosiswith the plant world. We are simply walking talking mushrooms. We also regaintelepathy from psilocybin mushrooms. Ancient Shamans used to control theweather and summon storms against their enemies with psilocybin mushrooms. Wedo create our own realities, and that is the point. If we all get together anduse these "tools" undergoing deep meditation, we can harness enoughpower to change reality with our minds destroying any enemy with any technologyor weapons.
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Psilocybin mushrooms are federally illegal in every country in the world.Why? Because they give us the ability to change reality. They give us the powerof love and creativity, so the Illuminati fear it being used against them, forthat weapon is their worst enemy. The human body complete with an alliance ofpsilocybin mushrooms is their worst nightmare. Period. I promise you, this isthe way to our salvation. So I am going to teach you how to grow them the way Ilearned. This method is very easy and affordable as long as you follow thesteps exactly with sterile procedures being the key focus.
This is the process to grow them for the beginner: http://www.shroomery.org/10256/PF-Tek-v2 You can order the spores from many places.: http://www.thehawkseye.com/ is just one. (If youthink you have found a wild specimen, get a Spore Sample Print from www.mushroomsfmrc.com and compare it foruse as a “Standard”. Found wild sample’sprint color and all other ID points can be made. slp/fmrc) Once they are grown, you can followdirections to take spore prints, so you can keep recycling them over and over.They grow very easily with this method, and success is the only option when thedirections are followed exactly. This method will take about 1-2 months dependingon your strategy and growing conditions. Hint: They LOVE blue spectrum lightand a very humid environment with LOTS of fresh air exchange. Think of theconditions that a human loves, and apply that to the mushrooms. You certainlyare not going to lock yourself in a closet and never open the door for air, areyou? Fresh air exchange is key. Now, we must take necessary precautions whengrowing these. They can easily be grown in a closet. They do not take up a lotof space, so the growing can be hidden quite easily. When the spores are ordered,it is done on the low-down.
If anyone ever asks what they are, just tell them it's a science project youare doing for school. Never admit to anything. Say you had no clue they werepsilocybin mushrooms if you get busted. In order to get busted for growingpsilocybin mushrooms, they have to prove that you had an intent to manufacturepsilocybin. However, one can not "manufacture" psilocybin, for it isa scientific process, and any slip up will cause contamination with mold. It islegal to grow mushrooms for scientific research purposes, so as long as youstick to your guns you'll be OK. Most police officers don't even look formushrooms, for they don't think anyone is smart enough to grow them. I wasgrowing for 6 months and never had a problem with the law.
It is important to know that when ingesting psilocybin mushrooms, you must bein an environment that is familiar to you to prevent a bad trip. The trip goesvery well with Cannabis, for Cannabis helps relieve the nausea feelings somemay experience (but yogurt also does the same thing). When experienced, you canharness the energies of the spiritual world in a way you never knew how before.I don't care how many breathing techniques you do, you will never have the deepsensation that you achieve when using psilocybin mushrooms. They are the key toour freedom.
For more information, I recommend watching a series called, "ThePharmacratic Inquisition" seen here: http://www.pharmacratic-inquisition.com(I don’t –Matthalamew)
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This is a subject that has been demonized by the Feds with our programming.Also, freedom of religion pointing to John Allegro's book, "The SacredMushroom and the Cross" would point to that these are Jesus, so the firstamendment of freedom of religion would protect you in case you ever get introuble, which the chances are pretty low anyway. It is time to open your eyesand see the connections that we have to the fungal world as it literally existsin our DNA more-so than any animal or plant. The beautiful white mycelium spansout and grows like a network that looks very similar to the networks in thehuman brain. When you grow this, you will learn much, and you will takespirituality to a level that you have never experienced in your lives. Thehumans will defeat the Illuminati and the Galactic Federation of Light, andthis is how. I love each and every one of you, and this is a message that wastold to me long ago by my inner-Jesus. I love you, and I will die for you, andthis is why I care so much for you, for we are all one. (I do agree thatthe Illuminati are real and that the “Galactic Fed of Light” are the FallenAngels or their ilk.” I’m not a John Allegro fan as Amanita muscaria is not Psilocybin… Matthalamew).
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SomeAdditional Info on IMGN Membership
I sent the following to someone who wanted these questionsanswered.
Amanita phalloides can only be collected from the wild. They cannot be cultivated as they are mycorrhizal and need trees to grow. You do not need a license to grow mushrooms. You can either use a locallab in your area to do
extractions(you will have to pay them for this) or do them yourself with the ColumnChromatography method. Many chemical supply companies buy mushrooms anddo their own extractions. The single dried specimens of mushrooms, like A.phalloides, are needed and wanted by many colleges and universities to useas "standards" so that others can learn what they look like, and howto identify them.
You do not need any degree or other credentials to grow mushrooms. Iunderstand people wanting to have confidential standings. That was thebiggest reason I stopped taking credit card orders. All kinds of recordscan be kept using this method of payment. As far as any IMGN names on lists,there are none. When someone contacts us looking for a certain mushroomproduct, I check to see what IMGN Members have reported that they have. When I find a match, I send the IMGN Member the person's name and contactinformation. Then, the Member can contact them if they want to dobusiness. I never release any IMGN Member's name or other information onthem.
I have also copy/pasted here information on Column Chromatography for yourinformation. If you decide to join IMGN, just make a note that"Steve said you would also include the Chrom Guide CD for free"……..thatgoes for anyone who joins the IMGN. But,you have to ask for it when you send your request for IMGN Membership andpayment in. slp/fmrc
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Stephen L. Peele is anExpert Witness for the "Westlaw Round Table Group".
Mushrooms Expert Witness
www.roundtablegroup.com
If you ever have a mushroom problem with the law, or need assistance with anylegal problems, this is where you want to go. Or, have your all readyappointed lawyer contact Stephen L. Peele at floridamycology@cs.com.
You should always take aspore print of a mushroom you are not sure about. Many times the gillswill give you an idea of what the color is, but to be sure, always take aprint. Use dark paper for light or white prints, use white paper for darkor colored prints. Amanita have white spores and you always want to knowif it might be one of these. Just by knowing the color of the mushroom's spores, you will know what mushroom it can't be, and what mushroom it mightbe. Mushrooms are placed in a genus, for the most part, by the color oftheir spores. If the print color is brown, you know it can't be Amanita,or Lepiota. Mushroom spores can be compared to human finger prints. They will all have different sizes, shapes, warts and so on. There arealso other reagent tests like Melzer's Reagent that will refine your search even more. Doctor's and Poison Control Centers keep mushroom sporeprint samples from FMRC to use as standards. Just a quick comparisonunder the microscope, they know what they have, or don’t have. slp/fmrc
M A I L C A L L
Subj: Two questions on amanita mushrooms.
Date: 1/12/2011
From: Mart
To: FloridaMycology@cs.com HelloStephen L. Peele!
Ihave a two questions on Amanita mushrooms. 1. What are the bad toxins, that will make you sick, in A. Pantherina,besides ibotenic acid and muscimol. I read from one of your posts that A.Pantherina does not contain Muscarine. 2.Is it possible to grow A. Pantherina mycelium just like A. Muscaria’s. Best wishes, Märt.
Mart.........1- Tricholomic Acid and Pantherin. 2-Yes. Potato Dextrose Agar will work finefor both. Thank You, for your interestin FMRC! Highest Regards, Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC
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FMRC's "Stimulus Sales"
Financingis now pre-approved with no interest!
To make both Stimulus Sales, the $300.00total (Overseas and Out of Country may make one extra payment of $70.00 tocomplete the $370.00), more accessible, FMRC will take payments in twomethods. Method One - You send twopayments of $150.00 each. Method Two -You send three payments of $100.00. Thiswill make it possible for even more people to take advantage of these great offersduring these economic hard times.
This payment schedule has been brought aboutdue to the number of requests we have gotten from people who are having a hardtime coming up with the total amount of $300.00. Now everyone can take advantage of our StimulusSales and get both IMGN and Doctors Degree without any hardship. No items are released until the full paymentis received. The best method of makingthese payments is a money order purchased at your local post office made out toFMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523. slp/fmrc
Due to the failing economy, FMRC presents the following sales to help generate stimulus within the Mushroom Community. It will be a long time running sale: Independent Mushroom Grower's Network (IMGN). Go for details:
http://www.mushroomsfmrc.com/gpage2.html Normal IMGN Membership Cost.........$200.00 (Out of USA $230.00)
During the Stimulus Sale,your cost is only $150.00!
With well over $700.00 worth of free IMGN benefits, this makes just the $200.00worth of your selection of any free spore samples, from the world's largestmushroom spore bank, even more better! And don't forget the one year'sfree subscription to "THE MUSHROOM CULTURE", The Journalof Mushroom Cultivation (TMC). It is your communication's link to what isgoing on in the World of Mushrooms. FMRC's Stimulus Sale#1.....IMGN Lifetime Membership with all benefits $150.00
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This is FMRC's Main Catalog. Scroll down until you come to:
COLLEGE OF BASIDIOMYCETES The Study of GilledMushrooms. FMRC was the first tointroduce home correspondence courses to study mushrooms. Certificate ofCompletion, from Associate to Doctor's are offered. Don't be fooled by"come lately" courses that others have now started. If you want tolearn about mushrooms in the privacy of your home, and do so at your own pace,sign up with the only one that has more than 30 years of experience. No one elsebut FMRC can give you the real training you desire to have. Courses start aslow as $100.00. Financing is available and pre-approved!
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Additional materials needed to completeDoctor or Master degrees of Completion are all furnished. These may includespecimens, spores, cultures, reagents, and other reading materials like"The Mushroom Researcher ($50.00 value, and "Growing MushroomsWithout Contaminations" (a $25.00 value). Students living outside the USmust add an additional $40.00 to cover "Out Of Country" Airmail andHandling.
Although our "Certificate of Completion" degrees are nonacademic and cannot be used for credit on academic courses, knowledge obtained through thesecourses can be transferred to academic credits by taking CLEP tests offered bymost major Universities and Colleges. Certificates offered may not beacceptable when obtaining positions where an academic degree is required. Thisis the reason why tuition may sound to be on the "cheap" side. Ifdegrees were accredited through a College or University, this would cause anincrease by thousands of dollars in tuition fees. Back years ago I was told bythe University ofNorth West Florida,"To accredit FMRC's Doctor's Degree would cost over $26,000.00." Andmy cut is not even in that figure. Because many of the subjects discussed arenot offered by most academic institutions, I decided to make them available. Imany times talk to medical doctors from Poison Control Centers, working onidentifying mushrooms involved in mushroom poisonings. They find themselveslearning a lot from me about identifying mushrooms, especially from spore microscopy and taking mushroom spore prints on paper to see their color. They openly relay to me how Mushroom ID "Challenged" they really are. WhenI tell them about these very same courses and how they can take them at theirown pace and time, they even sign up! These degrees actually show higherspecific learning accomplishments than what most Universities and Collegesoffer. Persons holding academic degrees can present our "Certificate ofCompletion" as supplemental credentials, and proof of further learninginto the specific area of Basidiomycetes.
When you order this Stimulus Sale #2, our Doctor's Degree Course, you get allthe needed and provided materials and books that are listed above. Allyou have to do is buy your text book at any book store, the National AudubonSociety…."Field Guide to North American Mushrooms by Gary H.Lincoff. You need a good field guide anyway, and this is really a good one. It is available from FS Book Store (1-916-771-4203) for under $20.00. "Tell them" FMRC said you had this book.
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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 #35 “TEO” February 2011
Gymnopilus luteofolius
Showing “bruised” bluingreaction and distinct “pileus” appearance. Cultivated and photograph by Stephen L. Peele, September, 1987.
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Thisentire massive collection, the World’s Largest Mushroom Spore Bank of its typesince 1972, can be inspected and downloaded at www.mushroomsfmrc.com.
Tobe the proud owner of this entire spore bank collection, simply mail in yourrequest for the Entire Mushroom Spore Sample Collection, held at FMRC. The best method of payment is a
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PSYCHOACTIVE MUSHROOM QUIZ “PMQ”
Psychoactive MushroomQuiz (“PMQ”) is featured in each edition of this Journal. If you know the answer, write it down andmail it in. No phone calls. No E-mail. No FAX. Your entry must be mailedby 1st Class U.S. Mail only (Overseas and Out of USA can useAirmail). The first letter that isopened and has the correct answer WINS. What do you win? An entire year’ssubscription to this Journal "Hard Copy”…FREE! Your name will be posted with the correctanswer in the following edition (unless you state “Not to publish yourname”). So, come on and impress your mushroom friends with yourknowledge. Send your entry to FMRC,“PMQ”, POB 18105, Pensacola,FL 32523.
Last Issue’s #34 TEO: What color are themushroom spores from the genus Stropharia?
Last Issue’s “PMQ” correct answer: Purple-brown to violet-brown.
Winner – Jack Carson
“PMQ” For this #35 TEO Issue: Whatis the main difference between Liquid Media and Agar Media?
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Spores should be sent to FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL32523. Actual live mushroom spore print samples areaffixed into journals for identifying purposes only. They can be compared to suspected foundmushroom's spores to help in making a positive identification. No growing claims are made or implied. Any articles, spores, or other submissionsthat are used earn you a year's free Hard Copy Subscription.
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and the fact it is quite troublesome toplace the said samples in this Journal. To this date, I know of no one else who has tried taking on thistask. Mushroom prints should be taken onpaper. Any dark colored spores can betaken on white paper. Light colored orwhite spores should be taken on a dark colored paper. This will ensure contrast and make the sporeseasy to see. Seven to nine completesheets should be submitted. Place andaffix (with stapleor tape) cover sheet over each sheet of prints. Send date and place collected.
Because these issues have this unique feature ofmushroom spore print samples to aid in the correct identification of mushroomscollected out in the wild, they have a cut off of 3,000 subscribers. This makes original Hard Copy back issues of"TMC" and "TEO" rare and the most valuable to collect.
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A Post Made About Drug Addiction onalt.drugs.mushrooms
Subject: Problem of Drug Addiction
Drug Addiction treatment in New Yorkhelps in providing rehabilitation
to victims of drug addictions, it also promotes awareness by making
people aware of the causes and consequences of even casual drug abuse.
To more information you can visit our website http://www.drug-rehabnewyork.com/
Damo Gets reply:
Subject: Re: Problem of Drug Addiction
Surely as an expert in addiction must know, you are aware of the fact thatpsilocybin and other psychoactive alkaloids in psychedelic mushrooms are notphysically or psychologically addicting. They are, in fact, currently beingused for research assisting people with psychiatric issues. Also, I don't thinkyou're going to find a whole lot of people reading this newsgroup looking forplaces to check themselves into for shroom addiction. Try alt.drugs.heroin,maybe, or [the worst and most addictive of them all] alt.drugs.alcohol. Meth ispretty bad, too. But seriously, don't sweat the
small stuff.
On a more serious note, what are you guys planning on banding together to sayonce marijuana is made legal, since the argument seems to stem around thatprimarily at this point? Oh yeah, it's got more tar than cigarettes, too,check. It certainly doesn't cause fights, rages, or drivers to wipe out fortypeople unloading from the slow bus. Is there an alt.profession.hypocritical?
FMRC’s Reply: Hey Damo Gets, just wantedto say I thought your post on "Problem of Drug Addiction" was righton time. As for Pot.....I have been wondering for years now why pot hasstayed Scheduled ONE. I have been watching the activities ofDuPont. They hold all the Patents for paper making from pulp wood. If hemp was ever again released, it would cripple DuPont's hold on papermaking......hence, many dollars are being pumped in to make sure pot stayswhere it is at. Even though many medical benefits are now being made, itstays where it is at. Schedule ONE compounds have little or no medicalbenefits and have a huge abuse potential. Go figure. The power ofthe dollar. slp/fmrc
