Mushrooms In The News!

[Lightning Rod]

This story came out today about the Magic Mushroom and the research they are doing about it at Johns-Hopkins.

Magic Mushrooms

But I wrote this tune 25 years ago....

Mushroom Men

[mtmynd]

why didn't JHU listen 4o years ago..? new generation probably.

cool song. nice flute.

[westcoast]

cool tune, dude well mixed.

fascinating article...

terence mckenna lives
http://www.erowid.org/splash.php

[Lightning Rod]

thanks cec. when I munch with you, I want it to be cactus

westie, what kinda shrooms do they have in the pacific NW?

I've tried em in mexico and jamaica and texas. The jamaican ones were the best, but maybe that was because of the coral reefs with their razor colors and darting silver barracuda.

[westcoast]

it's been a couple of years since i indulged. um, white ones. sorry, clay. we jeez call 'em magic! very popular up here. nice effect. kinda greasy to eat.

[Lightning Rod]

of course the good ones are purple
well, they aren't purple until you wound them
then they turn purple

I know they taste funky
try em in an omlette

once when I was in Jamaica, a ten-year-old kid came up to me and gave me a mushroom. He said, "I'm gonna be your mushroom mon." I made an omlette with it. The omlette was blue but by noon there were many more colors.

[Arcadia]

the only mushrooms I´ve tried were champignones, gírgolas (great in escabeches, sauces, pizzas & salads) and trufas. But I´ve read Terence McKenna!!!!!!

interesting article & tune!!!!!!

[bohonato]

"Allen and Peter asked him at some length about drugs and drug experiences, and their relationship to the spiritual states of meditation. The Dalai Lama gave the same answer everyone else did: drug states are real psychic states, but they aren't ultimately useful to you because you didn't get them on your own will and effort. (. . . ) But he said he'd be interested in trying psilocybin, the mushroom derivative, just to see what Westerners are so excited about. Allen promised to try and put Harvard onto it, and have this professor Dr. Tim Leary send him some."

From Gary Snyder's Passage from India, recounting Allen Ginsberg hooking the Dalai Lama up, a true story.

I'm going to have to try an omelette, though I've always enjoyed an nice mushroom and extra crunchy peanut butter sandwich.

"Even at the 14-month follow-up, 58 percent of 36 volunteers rated the experience on the psilocybin session as among the five most personally meaningful experiences of their lives and 67 percent rated it among the five most spiritually significant experiences of their lives," the researchers said.

My first time was completely beyond words. I'm extremely picky about the circumstances I take them in, I'm afraid of cheapening the experience. Tripping in someone's basement will never cut it.

Digging the tune.