Mushrooms have been used for millennia as both food and medicine by ancient cultures. Darren Springer explores the connection between these practices and the principles of permaculture found in ancient traditions.Continue Reading
Hallucinogenic Drugs: Perils and Possibilities Source: The Hastings Center Studies Vol 2 No 1 (Jan 1974) Author: Dr. Louis Joylon West West was an odd character indeed. As chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma during the 1950s and 1960s, he secretly received money from the CIAContinue Reading
Mescaline, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and Psilocybin: Comparison of Clinical Syndromes, Effects on Color Perception, and Biochemical Measures Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry (Vol 3 No 4 1962) Author: Leo E. Hollister MD and Alan M. Hartman PhD Summary In the early 1960s, most clinical volunteers took only one kind of psychedelic. If oneContinue Reading
Jean Bassett Johnson credits R.J. Weitlaner for discovering teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of the Aztecs.Continue Reading
R. Gordon Wasson reports to the American Philosophical Society on his cultural and entheogenic expedition to Mexico.Continue Reading
