Tag: Mushrooms

“I am a scientist!” Roger Heim’s interdisciplinary and transnational research on hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the problem of divination)

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and...

Five Things Mushrooms & Non-Binary People Have in Common

What do mushrooms and non-binary people have in common? Summer Vineyard counts down five points...

Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, & Exploration

This excerpt from the book Fly Agaric: A Compendium of History, Pharmacology, Mythology, & Exploration...

Psychoactive Mushrooms in Mexico: Overview of Ecology and Ethnomycology

Anya Ermakova provides an overview of the psychoactive mushrooms found in Mexico & the cultural...

Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel: 2021 Comprehensive Report

This comprehensive report, which was prepared for the Denver City Council Finance & Governance Committee,...

The “Unsung History” of Psilocybin Research: Gastón Guzmán and His Scientific Contribution

Mycologist Gastón Guzmán Huerta dedicated his life to discovering and researching mushrooms of the genus...

María Sabina, Mushrooms, and Colonial Extractivism

While Robert Gordon Wasson obtained fame, María Sabina lived with the stigma of "revealing" the...

Seeking a True Shaman in the Sierra Mazateca

This article explores how the struggle to define what an authentic Mazatec shaman is expresses...

Blessings of Life and Peyote with Debi Roan

Sean Lawlor interviews Debi Roan, psychedelic educator and holder of Navajo lineage, about the Peyote...