The book also contains tips on taking mushrooms, and information on the levels of psychoactive compounds contained within the various species. But what I didn’t expect when I embarked on this journey was for it to result in what is surely the most personal book I’ve ever written.

Full Custom services can be engaged to modify or expand this set's book list or develop a new jacket design.Powell’s most profound insight is that nature is intelligent, not in the way that we think of intelligence as confined to the human mind, but that intelligence is an intrinsic property of the whole of nature. This comprehensive guide covers a wide range of species with detailed descriptions and colour photographs, making it a valuable resource for both beginners and experienced mushroom enthusiasts in the UK. I was able to successfully identify and prepare different species thanks to Stamets pictures and very detailed descriptions.

It's not what I wanted, but I'll keep it because I think Stamets deserves the royalties and It's also got a very good 'Recommended Reading and Resources' guide at the back that contains a lot of things that I do want. The author informs, muses, and amuses as he chronicles his psilocybin explorations and insights into natural intelligence. Illustrating psilocybin's healthful properties, now acknowledged by mainstream science, Powell describes his activism in the fight to keep psilocybin mushroom use legal in the U.If you are new to psilocybin mushroom, this book is a comprehensive guide to all your needs to know about magic mushrooms. The body of the book is divided into five chapters, which follow the progression of steps required to cultivate mushrooms. He runs a meditation retreat from his home in the North Cascade Mountains and counts the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy and working with the legendary and beloved Dennis McKenna among his volunteer experiences. Pollan observes that the young have had less time to establish the cognitive patterns that psychedelics temporarily overturn. 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.

The back matter includes a range of helpful appended sections including a glossary, a bibliography, a timeline of psilocybin mushroom happenings, and a section to help one make conversions -- particularly between volume and weights for various materials that are used in cultivation. Letcher, a Briton, holds doctorates in both ecology and religious studies, and in the 1990s, when he was an eco-protester, lived in a treehouse. Kris, the truck-stop waitress, referred me to Michelle, a bartender at the gentlemen’s club down the road, who directed me to Kim, the red-haired dancer with an ankh-tattoo armband, who referred me to an ex-boyfriend’s wife’s girlfriend, another redhead, who met me outside an American Legion hall in Chicopee (Nipmuck for “land of violent pee”) and informed me that magic mushrooms were “out of season,” but she could get me LSD instead. He’s now on the board or a scientific adviser to four psychedelic companies, and has received consulting fees from others.

Philosophical asides, whimsical illustrations evoking the mystical nature of mushrooms, and speculations about the relationship of these organisms to humankind provide a lasting legacy. Along with describing a lot of mushrooms individually there are chapters about the ancient history, sacred rituals, the art of wild mushroom hunting, trip preparation, personal experiences and so on.

While purchasing a book can provide a foundation, responsible foraging requires a comprehensive understanding that goes beyond reading. It is a how-to guide, and if one isn’t interested in the process of cultivation, one might find the book a bit dry. Another salt, the diethylamide (LSD), he put to one side, but he had “a peculiar presentiment,” as he put it in his memoir LSD: My Problem Child (1980), “that this substance could possess properties other than those established in the first investigations. He was the UK government’s “drugs tsar” in the noughties, until he was fired in 2009 after pointing out that fewer deaths were caused by MDMA than by horse riding.Ayelet Waldman's 2017 memoir/manifesto A Really Good Day is an argument resoundingly in favor of harnessing the power of psychedelics as an alternative to the wholesale prescribing of antidepressants and other pharmaceuticals. Welcome to our specialised collection of books focused on the captivating art of foraging and cultivating wild truffles in the UK! And, more than that, this is a conversation about recognizing that our minds are narrower than we think, that there is a lot we’re filtering out and pruning away and outright ignoring.