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field guide Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World.
amadou. Because of its antimicrobial properties, Fomes fomentarius was also used to dress wounds and preserve food.
2005 book, Mycelium Running,
“If a gilled mushroom has purplish brown to black spores, and the
The stoned ape theory is not really susceptible to proof or disproof.
And thus not science , just woo
uncertain whether he had experienced madness or transcendence,
uncomfortably unscientific.
Me
a case can be made that the cultural upheaval we call the 1960s began with a CIA mind-control experiment gone awry.
“the perennial philosophy” that Aldous Huxley held to undergird all religions and to which psychedelics supposedly can offer direct access.
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could move through. The Amazonian-tribal song put me on a trail that ascended steeply through redwoods, following
Psychedelics can make even the most cynical of us into fervent evangelists of the obvious.
hypnagogic
abeyance,
gerund
The philosophical implications of “predictive coding” are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless illusion woven from both the data of our senses and the models in our memories. Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations—a kind of controlled hallucination. This
“If it were possible to temporarily experience another person’s mental state, my guess is that it would feel more like a psychedelic state than a ‘normal’ state, because of its massive disparity with whatever mental state is habitual with you.”
This is perhaps most clearly evident in depression, when the ego turns on itself and uncontrollable introspection gradually shades out reality. Carhart-Harris
“The short summary is, babies and children are basically tripping all the time.”
