Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide

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Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and their continued significance to modern-day culture. He was instrumental in persuading Australia to legalise psychedelic therapy this year, having been flown over by a psychedelic charity, Mind Medicine, to present the benefits of psychedelics to Australia’s drugs regulator.

It might be glossy and radiant, but it would lack the 3-dimensional biological complexity of a real ivy leaf. The preface and afterword, as well as the psilocybin timeline are at least insightful and beautiful. How to Change Your mind chronicles how it’s been a longer and stranger trip than most any of us knew.What he sought in his own trips was not communion with a higher consciousness so much as the opportunity to “renovate my everyday mental life. It led to a surge of interest in natural entheogens, such as psilocybin mushrooms, that arose from LSD’s often controversial prominence in popular culture. A man deserves to be paid for his toil, but the reader should keep in mind the book could be regarded as something of a sales pitch. At one point, he tells us, his only option was to seek funding from Channel 4 to run a live TV trial of MDMA.

He illustrates this through anecdotes of working with different patients about the many forms it can take: visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory. Anyone who possesses this much information and dispenses it freely deserves better than a one star rating, plus, I would have to be quite a lot smarter to actually critique the author's knowledge and writing skills.I have been avidly studying mushrooms for almost 20 years, but never really delved into the world of psilocybins. The book is highly detailed and comprehensive, allowing readers to learn the entire process required to produce perfect magic mushrooms every time.