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- TEONANACATL 1995 Psilocybe Cyanescens Astoria Ossip (part 1)
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- following texts accompanied spores of Psilocybe Cyanescens Astoria
- Ossip, which were dispatched in january and february 1995.
- some of the letters additionally contained b/w grafics of sporeprints
- or a copy of the article by J. Gartz (#6, below).
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- to my revered teacher, and powerful ally, T E O N A N A C A T L
-
- "I am older, older than thought in your species. My Mystic and Magickal
- powers have been known by WOmen since thousands of years before Buddha and
- Christ. Societies that have followed my rule have lived in harmony with
- nature. I can bring the mightiest wars before your eyes, or - show you -
- Death. Can show you: certainty (not faith) and peace - unutterable. And I
- can give you laughter, joy, and ecstasy - ineffable. Showing the future to
- those who dare is nothing: I could place you with the Gods. And my joy is to
- see your joy and my ecstasy is in yours. Learning to reproduce my growing
- environment you will come to love me. The mushrooms which you see are only
- the part of my body dedicated to sex thrills, sunbathing and the communion
- with symbiotic species. My true body, hardware for my collective hypermind,
- is an underground network of fine fibers, which may cover many acres, grow
- for thousands of years, and can have far more connections than even the
- human brain. Learning .. thy Way .. you will look upon me with awe and
- amazement - FOR I AM THE FLESH OF THE GODS. "
-
- (1) O. T. Oss, O. N. Oeric - Psilocybin/ Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide
- (1976), 2nd, revised ed. available. (2) S. L. Peele - Fruit Of The Gods
- (1982). (3) for descriptions of giant armillaria fungi (honey mushrooms)
- see Nature, April 1992; SporesAfield, archived at: gopher.econet.apc.org
- /environment/misc/mycology. (4) Lao Tse - Tao Te King
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- The classic (1) sold more than 100,000 copies and helped a lot to ensure
- that TEONANACATL will not be (again) censored into oblivion. The grain-jar
- method of growing Ps. Cubensis and other leave/compost/dung-eating species
- is fastest and can easily be done indoors. But it is also quite laborious,
- and even if these mushrooms are grown on straw or compost, the cultures are
- short-lived and require repeated sterile lab work for propagation. (5)
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- Wood-loving species, however, (and especially those preferring a colder
- climate), like Ps. Cyanescens, can easily be allowed to grow in outdoor beds
- like perennial plants -comparable to trees-, requiring no (more) labwork.
- It should be pointed out, that mushrooms of a strikingly similar habitat
- are probably the biggest living organisms on earth today, as well as among
- the oldest (3).
- J. Gartz recently described a "new method of mushroom cultivation in
- N-America", which can indeed do without any labwork (6).
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- Some european growers prefer to start with a (onetime) run of spawn-
- production (agar-dishes, glasses of oats/rye/barley, then glasses/bags of
- woodchips) in spring, which usually results in a first harvest in fall, and
- a mushroom bed that can be enlarged both in area and yield in the next years
- and very probably be maintained far beyond human lifetime. Clean wood debris
- (like from a planing machine. sawdust does not work) seem to work even
- better than freshly chopped wood. Although Ps. Cy. seems to be able to fruit
- on plain wood without any casing, it is advisable to supply the bed with
- enough soil (+seeds), and leaves and larger branches, as the mushrooms
- really love to grow in between and under grass or other plants.
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- The mushroom-beds obtained can be left on their own most of the year and
- (in a good location) need attention only at harvesting time. Outdoors
- unfavorable weather may of course diminish or prevent a year's harvest,
- but as this cannot hurt the mass of underground mycelium, the shrooms
- will just make up for it next season.
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- (5) P. Stamets, J. S. Chilton - The Mushroom Cultivator (1983)
- (6) Integration, J. for mind-moving plants & culture, 4 (1993)
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- "Oh, growing them seems to be no less consciousness - expanding than eating
- them." a -then new- pupil of Teonanacatl quite correctly realized.
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- Psilocybe cyanescens Astoria Ossip made its way to europe from the northern
- U.S., but may well have originated elsewhere, even -as a mycologist pointed
- out- from (sub)tropical mountain areas. Like Psilocybe Cyanescens
- (Wakefield), the "Wavy Cap" known from Britain and US., IT NEEDS A FEW WEEKS
- OF COLD (NEAR FREEZING) WEATHER FOR FRUITING, and seems to feed on any kind
- of wood, cardboard or similar. Mycelium and fruiting bodies are strongly
- blueing and the latter have an entheogenic potency, which was described as
- 'at least twice that of Ps. Cub.' and 'not weaker than Ps. Semilanc.' after
- comparisons with dried and weighed samples. The caps of Ps. cy. A. O., which
- easily grow bigger than 3" in dia, are often distinctly umbonate and rarely
- wavy, and there is other hints, that it may just as well be a species
- closely related to, but not identical with Psilocybe Cyanescens.
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- The visionary experience induced by 2 to 2.5 g (dry/80 kg) of P. cy. A. O.
- has been described as colorful, psychedelic and as deep and far-out as can
- be, effecting the mind without any stress on the body. It may encompass
- about everything which S. Grof described in his excellent books (7) or which
- can be found in the Bardo Tdol (8). It is sometimes threatening, nearly
- always astonishing and enlightening, and has been found healing in quite a
- few cases.
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- (7) Realms of the Unconscious (1975) -- + J. Halifax: The Human Encounter
- with Death (1977) -- LSD Psychotherapy (1979, new edition available, after
- all) -- Beyond Death (1980). (8) The Great Liberation Through Hearing in The
- Bardo = The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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- Ps. cy. A. O. grows very vigorously and usually produces spores copiously.
- It is quite exciting to watch under a microscope, how a high percentage of
- these germinate within 6-36 hours when put onto agar at room temperature.
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- * Send at least $ 2 (cash or stamps only) for more infos, or $ 5 for a
- small sample of spores (but ample enough for microscopy and propagation),
- or $ 10 to $ 20 for an entire, more decorative sporeprint of P. cy. A. O.
- to: TEONANACATL/(postlagernd)/ Postamt 1092 Wien/ A-1092 Vienna, Austria *
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- McCopies & D.Stribute * STARSEED * PL 0 SAG MA 0 VIR
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- Enclosed is spores of PCY-AO, collected in fall 1994. Please treat them with
- responsibility and the respect due to all forms of life.
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- * item void where prohibited-prohibition void if violating human rights !
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- They come from mushrooms growing outside in a forest environment, and
- therefore some contamination with other spores is possible. But great care
- was taken not to introduce additional contaminants, and the sporeprints were
- all sealed into plastic within a few days of taking them. Especially when
- kept in a cool and dark place they will stay viable for many years.
- At least small parts of the spores of each mushroom were already spread in
- promising places and so given back to earth, thankfully.
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- These spores are provided to enable research on this fascinating but not
- well known organism. Your feedback will be highly welcome. I hope that this
- will help to find answers to some of below. They must not be sold and
- neither the spores nor any derivatives thereof should be used to gain
- personal profit or for other ethically doubtful purposes.
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- There is many things to learn still about TEONANACATL in it's many forms:
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- - PCY-AO certainly belongs to the genus Psilocybe, but the exact species is
- currently not known. Local mycologists stated that sHe does fit the
- description of Psilocybe Cyanescens in 'all' points; other people tend to
- believe that it is a separate species.
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- - Very probably the high entheogenic potency of PCY-AO is due mainly to its
- comparably high content of psilocybin and/or psilocin. (Nor)Baeocystin and
- yet unknown compounds may also be present. To my knowledge until now no
- analytical data exist. Dried samples of PCY-AO were sent to the university
- of Leipzig for a chemical analysis, the results of which will hopefully be
- available soon.
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- + Progress in the most promising kind of research, however - the goal of
- which was summarized beautifully by Aldous Huxley in 1962 in a letter to
- Albert Hofmann (below) - has been made nearly impossible for several
- decades now through propaganda, censorship and oppression, which now openly
- employ the methods of war . . .
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-
- I HOPE TO SEE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TECHNIQUE OF >APPLIED MYSTICISM< - A
- TECHNIQUE FOR INDIVIDUALS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THEIR TRANSCENDENTAL
- EXPERIENCE AND TO MAKE USE OF THE INSIGHTS FROM THE >OTHER WORLD< IN THE
- AFFAIRS OF >THIS WORLD<. (MEISTER ECKHART WROTE THAT 'WHAT IS TAKEN IN BY
- CONTEMPLATION MUST BE GIVEN OUT IN LOVE'.) THIS IS WHAT MUST BE DEVELOPED -
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- THE ART OF GIVING OUT IN LOVE AND INTELLIGENCE WHAT IS TAKEN IN FROM VISION
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- AND THE EXPERIENCE OF SELF-TRANSCENDENCE AND SOLIDARITY
- WITH UNIVERSE. (edited, 1994)
-
-
- .. there still is hope .. the wall in Berlin did come down, too.
-
- .. just another crack in your wall.
- an148626@Anon.penet.fI
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