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Recreational Psychedelics - Fly Agaric
Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) needs little introduction. It is commonly found throughout North America associated with
birch, pine, oak, and beech forests, typically on poor soils. The cap ranges from 3-30 cm and is coloured scarlet to orange-red
with white warts or patches.
Divine Mushroom of Immortality
The plant kingdom is of immeasurable influence and usefulness for mankind, since it supplies most of our clothing, food, drink,
and shelter. The medical science of primitive people consists entirely in their knowledge of the more or less efficacious plants,
and everyday experiance confirms the fact that even a number of plants native ot our own regions are known to many uneducated nations
almost more thouroighly than they are to us.
Preparations
Preparation of A. Muscaria
Make sure the cap to stem ratio is kept about 3:1, the same as it is found per mushroom in the natural state. Dry on screen
in the oven on the lowest setting with door cracked open. This only takes an hour or so at most. Render into a powder in a
small electric coffee or spice grinder/mill; the finer the better.
Religion
Mushrooms and Religion: Amanita Muscaria
The study of psychoactive mushrooms and their uses in different societies begins with R. Gordon Wasson. It was with him
that the discipline of ethnomycology, the branch of mycology that studies the uses of fungi in various cultures as well as
the legends associated with them, began.
Traditions
The Psychedelic Secrets of Santa Claus
Although most people see Christmas as a Christian holiday, most of the symbols and icons we associate with Christmas
celebrations are actually derived from the shamanistic traditions of the tribal peoples of pre-Christian Northern Europe.
"The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.
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- Terence McKenna