ISBN: 0-914171-19-4
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Magic mushrooms are
bluish in color.
Learn to identify
mushrooms growing wild.
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Magic Mushrooms
Peter Stafford
Over a hundred species of psilocybian
mushrooms have been identified. MAGIC MUSHROOMS describes
the size, shape,
habitat, and potency of the most popular, including Amanita myscaria or
Fly
Agaric, Psilocybe cubensis, Psilocybe semilanceata or Liberty Caps,
Panaelous
Subbalteatus—the most prevalent of the psilocybian mushrooms—Psilocybe
cyanescens
or Wavy Caps, Psilocybe baeocystis, and Psilocybe stuntzii.
The amazing romantic history of the
discovery
and modern use of magic mushrooms weaves through out MAGIC MUSHROOMS
. Stafford tells of R. Gordon Wasson’s search for the sacred in the
Oaxacan highlands and his mushrooms ceremonies with the curandera Maria
Sabina. Soon after than came the famous Miracle of March Chapel and
Timothy Leary’s prison experiments in which he an several
convicts actually ate mushrooms inside the Massachusetts Correctional
Institution—a maximum-security prison for young offenders.
Step-by-step photographs show how mushrooms
are
cultivated indoors along with the methods for harvesting and drying
them.
Stafford discusses dosages used by ‘shroom trippers and includes an
entire chapter on chemistry. Included are dozens of wonderful
photographs of marvelous mushrooms in all stages of development.
Anyone who loves the 60s and is curious
about
psychedelic fungi will enjoy MAGIC MUSHROOMS. This book
is a
treasure.
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