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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