Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide

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Truly the classic manual on home cultivation, the wisdom of Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide continues to inspire new students of psycho-mycology—and refreshes psychedelic memories for others. This is the fascinating territory that the journalist Michael Pollan explores with his new book, “How to Change Your Mind. It provides evidence that clearly illustrates and supports the pivotal role these medicines have played in human evolution. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Whereas we will get very excited over the concept of an advanced alien intelligence, we cannot sense that same kind of advanced intelligence in the laws and forces of nature that served to evoke life. Whether you’re enthusiastic, cautiously optimistic, or skeptical about what more scientific studies will reveal about this emerging type of therapy, these books on psychedelics are a great way to introduce yourself to the topic.Possession of psychedelics has been decriminalised in 20 US cities and municipalities, and the Food and Drug Administration appears to be on the verge of legalising the use of MDMA (ecstasy) and magic mushrooms in psychotherapy. The book is highly detailed and comprehensive, allowing readers to learn the entire process required to produce perfect magic mushrooms every time. And in light of recent city- and state-level legalizations, psychedelic therapy may one day reach the level of normalization that cannabis (and CBD, its most mainstream chemical compound) has reached.

The difference between a delightful mind expanding experience and rapid liver and kidney failure appears to depend on your successfully applying all 200 pages of identification procedures outlined here, in conjunction with a dozen other recommended guides.

Immerse yourself in these valuable materials, thoughtfully curated to help you navigate the fascinating realm of magic mushrooms. 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.

With this book, he transforms our understanding of the innerscape, the unbounded world we occupy every conscious second of our life experienced by thoughts, suffering, awareness, joy, and reasoning.

He has written five books on mushroom cultivation, use and identification; his books Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator (coauthor) have long been hailed as the definitive texts of mushroom cultivation. It may not be the obvious subject for the author of the modern classic “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” but stick with Pollan — this departure makes for great reading.

In this episode the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Michael Pollan about his new book How to Change Your Mind. The book is partly a documentation of Huxley ingesting mescaline and describing the effects in real time — he waxes poetic on art, philosophy, and religion, noting that what he feels is not intoxication, per se, but an intensification of experience. I interviewed a number of cancer patients who, in the course of a single guided session on psilocybin, had such a powerful mystical experience that their fear of death either faded or vanished altogether. The author, well-known for books on food and life such as The Botany of Desire and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, has been opening some of the doors of perception with the aid of lysergic acid, its molecular cousin psilocybin, ayahuasca, and assorted other chemical tools.He ends with two chapters laying out the latest neuro­scientific speculations and describing the extraordinarily fruitful renaissance of the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy in the 1990s. In 1938 Albert Hofmann, a chemist at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, created a series of new compounds from lysergic acid. 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. Each jacket is comparable to an art print, featuring original designs on high-quality tear-resistant paper with a matte laminate finish for durability and beauty.