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- From: ao613@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jeff Heeney)
- Subject: Andrew Weil writes...
- Message-ID: <Cn8yDA.BC4@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 00:51:10 GMT
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- An excerpt from the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs.
- Vol.7(No.1)Jan-Mar,1975
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- Re: Liberty caps (in a field in Oregon)
-
- ..Soon I had eaten 25 of the tiny mushrooms...
- Gradually I became aware of a strange sensation in my
- stomach, a sort of buzzing vibration that grew slowly in
- intensity. It was not at all unpleasant, and I knew at once it
- was the mushrooms. Over the next ten minutes this unusual
- feeling became stronger, filling my abdomen. Then it began
- to invade the rest of my body, pushing outward through the
- muscles to the extremities. I was distinctly aware of a subtle
- but powerful energy vibrating through the musculature of my
- whole body. It made me feel warm and strong. As it reached my
- head, my senses sharpened, and I found myself admiring qualities
- of the wet pasture I had ignored until then. The green of the
- grass was of glowing intensity, highlighted by tones of brown and
- red. The smell of the earth and rain was overpowerin. I had no
- desire to move. If the ground had been dry, I would have
- stretched out and rolled on the grass.
- Our little group slowly drew together. Obviously, we were
- all feeling the effects of the mushrooms. We moved slowly and
- gracefully, swinging our arms and laughing at each other. The
- laughter seemed to bubble up from inside, and the sound of it
- echoed inside my chest. I was also very conscious of the taste
- of mushrooms. It was as strong as if fresh in my mouth but was
- diffused through my whole body. I felt the taste in my muscles.
-
- ......to be cont.
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- -=- ........ so there!!
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- Newsgroups: alt.psychoactives
- From: ao613@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jeff Heeney)
- Subject: Andrew Weil (cont.)
- Message-ID: <Cn9EH9.Mpv@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 06:39:09 GMT
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- The rain picked up in intensity. Clearly we could not
- stay out in the field much longer. It was late afternoon and
- turning colder. Slowly we wended our way out of the pasture,
- across the fence, and up a steep bank to the car. I curled up
- in a corner of the back seat as we started to move. It was an
- hours drive south along the caost to Greg and Susan's house.
- The mushroom energy continued to course around my body.
- And now it began to pull me away from ordinary awareness into
- a realm that bordered on sleep but was not sleep. It was an
- effort to maintain awareness of the car and my fellow passen-
- gers, let alone the scenery outside. Instead, I closed my eyes
- and began to see visions that were somewhere between images in
- the mind's eye and actual movies projected on the inside of my
- eyelids. At first there were shadowy patterns that tended to
- multiply themselves in infinite regressions, but these soon
- resolved themselves into very clear images of mushrooms. The
- mushrooms that appeared to me were of one type, not Liberty
- Caps. They grew in clustered bunches, the stipes arising from
- a common point, and lacked the Liberty Cap's distinct peak.
- They also seemed fleshier and bigger. I had never seen them
- before. Bunches of these visionary mushrooms appeared out of
- nowhere, springing up at odd angles, swirling and receding.
- They occupied my attention completely.
- "Are you all right?"someone in the front seat asked.
- "Yes, I'm seeing mushrooms." I opened my eyes for a
- moment, surprised by the brightness of the outside light. I
- closed them quickly and was instanly back in the comfortable
- night world of visions. I felt sorry for the driver and
- other front-seat riders who were attending to the road and
- could not watch the interior show.
- We arrived at the house without difficulty just as
- it was growing dark.
- "Are you still seeing mushrooms?"Greg asked me.
- I closed my eyes to make sure."Yes, they're still
- there."
- "A number of people who eat these things see mush-
- rooms,"Greg said.
- "The ones I'm seeing aren't the ones we ate. I wonder
- if I'll ever meet up with them."
- I told Greg and Susan that Liberty Caps more than
- lived up to my expectations and thanked them for introducing
- me to them. Hallowe'en seemed an especially fitting day on
- which to meet them.
- It was now a stormy Hallowe'en night, and a long
- ride through the mountains lay between us and Eugene. The
- visions were subsiding, and I volunteered to drive. It took
- some concentration to follow the tortuos road through the
- rain, but we arrived home without incident. I could still
- feel the vibrational energy in my muscles, though it was
- fading rapidly. About six hours after I had eaten the
- mushrooms, I was back to normal, feeling tired. I fell
- asleep and awoke the next morning refreshed and ready to
- leave Oregon for the south.
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- O-O
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- -=- ........ so there!!
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- From: ao613@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jeff Heeney)
- Subject: Andrew Weil (conclusion)
- Message-ID: <Cn9Fzz.98@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 07:11:59 GMT
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- Excerpt from "Mushroom Hunting..." by Andrew Weil in
- the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs. Vol.7(1)Jan.-Mar.,1975.
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- I did not return to the state until April. When I got
- back I made an effort to find out more about Liberty Caps and
- eventually got in touch with Jerry, the Oregon state student
- who had introduced Greg and Susan to the mushrooms. Jerry gave
- me much useful information about them. He said they appeared
- to be a species called Psilocybe semelanceata, that like all
- Psilocybes they had purplish brown spores, and like all
- psychoactive Psilocybes they tended to stain blue on handling
- or drying, although less so than other varieties.(I had seen
- no tinges of blue on the ones I ate.) Jerry said further that
- they appeared only after the Autumn Equinox and continued to
- grow until the Winter Solstice, despite low temperatures. Thier
- range extended from the California border north into British
- Columbia, from the ocean east to the crest of the coastal
- mountains. Of the active species he had tried, Jerry said
- Liberty Caps were his favourites.
- I have found reference to this species in one European
- handbook and in no American one. The European book called
- Psilocybe semilanceata a poisonous species. And, no doubt,
- persons who ate it unawares, without the proper set, would
- interpret the dramatic changes as mushroom poisoning.
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- Andrew Weil writes again in the Journal of Psychedelic
- Drugs Vol.8(2)Apr-Jun.,1976.
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- O-O
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- -=- ........ so there!!
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