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<title><![CDATA[Third Eye Candy]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/?p=1219</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>entheoref</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/?p=1219</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Coolest video on YouTube!
Pay Close Attention!

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Coolest video on YouTube!</p>
<p>Pay Close Attention!<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Tents and mushrooms popping up]]></title>
<link>http://walkingwater.wordpress.com/?p=29</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>walkingwater</dc:creator>
<guid>http://walkingwater.wordpress.com/?p=29</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some of our solstice guest have arrived and the tents are scattered across the lawn like the mushroo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of our solstice guest have arrived and the tents are scattered across the lawn like the mushrooms that grow wild there.  I figured everyone would want to find a private little space for themselves, but instead they are huddled together like frightened sheep.  To be honest our graded lawn is one of the few flat spots on our property and maybe this rather than lack of the desire for privacy drove everyone together.</p>
<p>You say wait, go back to the mushrooms.... are they edible?  The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms calls them "choice".  What we have growing wild and volunteer is a Meadow Mushroom, <em>Agarics campestris</em>.  I was a bit hesitant as I haven't the mushroom hunting experience that my husband has, but after confirming that they are not the white amanita I am happy to consume as many as decide to grow for us.  I admit after our happy discovery we have been faithful to leave a few to repopulate and we throw our grey water over the areas that tend to be most prolific.  This is our third year harvesting the tasty mushrooms and they are more plentiful now than when we first discovered them growing outside our front door.  Morels, Shaggy Manes and many others grow quite willingly for us to harvest.</p>
<p>As always consult a field guide and always be absolutely sure before you eat any wild foods.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[inspiration]]></title>
<link>http://robinettehandmade.wordpress.com/?p=33</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>robinettehandmade</dc:creator>
<guid>http://robinettehandmade.wordpress.com/?p=33</guid>
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I found this great little German (I think) wooden candle holder at the flea market recently and hav]]></description>
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<p>I found this great little German (I think) wooden candle holder at the flea market recently and have been looking at it a lot, as it's been in my living room since bringing it home.  I love those red and white mushrooms and have a lot of them stashed around my house, mainly with my Christmas decorations.</p>
<p>I think the correct term for this type of mushroom is <em>Amanita</em>, which I learned in this helpful guide I picked up a while ago:</p>
<p><img style="margin:8px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2531225131_0f61dc0bb9.jpg?v=1212004428" alt="non-flowering plants" width="296" height="396" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Anyway, after rummaging through my fabric stash last night, I came up with this <a title="woodland skirt" href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12113300" target="_blank">skirt</a> for <a title="robinette.etsy.com" href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5556200" target="_blank">my shop</a> using some linen I had on hand and one of a set of vintage napkins I unburied at the thrift store a while ago.  I love the all of the little pictures on the fabric - mushrooms, bugs, snails, nuts, leaves.  I still have four of the napkins left and hope to make something for myself sometime.  It all reminds me of the walks we took in the woods near our cabin in Northern Michigan when I was growing up.  I always came home with a handful of treasures I'd picked up along the way, many of which are right on those napkins.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Christian Ratsch - 50 Years of Mushroom Experience]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.com/2008/04/02/christian-ratsch-50-years-of-mushroom-experience/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>entheoref</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teleomorph.com/2008/04/02/christian-ratsch-50-years-of-mushroom-experience/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a video of Christian Ratsch giving a casual and deeply inspired talk at a trance party .    ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a video of Christian Ratsch giving a casual and deeply inspired talk at a trance party .    Ratsch is the world's foremost scholar/researcher of shamanic plants and cultures.  Author several phenomenal books including the 1000 page tome, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants.  I had the pleasure of socializing with him (and other luminaries) in 2000 at Palenque, Mexico and I can attest to his psychedelic charm.  Nice storyteller, too.  I <span style="font-weight:bold;">highly</span> recommend the earlier, more formal presentation, <a href="http://teleomorph.blogspot.com/2006/12/christian-ratsch-on-google-video.html">'Psychoactivity: The Fountain of Culture'</a>.   This newer video is in German with English subtitles.  Enjoy!<br />Part 1 of 4:<br /><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/6EUHsVquKCI'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/6EUHsVquKCI&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Amanita faloides]]></title>
<link>http://miquelsentandreu.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/amanita-faloides/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>miquelsentandreu</dc:creator>
<guid>http://miquelsentandreu.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/amanita-faloides/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Cobian 9!]]></title>
<link>http://webnoxio.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/cobian-9/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>webnoxio</dc:creator>
<guid>http://webnoxio.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/cobian-9/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
A próxima versão do meu programa de back-up favorito já mexe: nome de código Amanita.
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<p>A próxima versão do meu programa de back-up favorito já mexe: nome de código <a href="http://sherwood.lh.umu.se/CobianBackup/Default.aspx?g=topics&#38;f=4">Amanita</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Amanita tetoide]]></title>
<link>http://cvber.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/amanita-tetoide/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cvber</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cvber.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/amanita-tetoide/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Técnica mixta
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<p>Técnica mixta</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What's the coolest sounding thing you can't eat?]]></title>
<link>http://deemix.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/whats-the-coolest-sounding-thing-you-cant-eat/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dee</dc:creator>
<guid>http://deemix.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/whats-the-coolest-sounding-thing-you-cant-eat/</guid>
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My Answer: Amanita. It&#8217;s a genus of killer mushrooms, it eats away your liver and no antidote]]></description>
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My Answer: Amanita. It's a genus of killer mushrooms, it eats away your liver and no antidote is available. This genus consists of many edible varieties but the risk is definitely not worth the reward. Given that 95% of all the mushroom poisoning cases reported point their fingers at Amanita and at least 50% of these cases were caused by accidentally or ignorantly consuming the <a href="http://americanmushrooms.com/deathcap.htm">Death Cap</a> aka "the world's most dangerous mushroom". The fun part is that death caps are relatively rare in most parts of the US, but they are fairly common in the San Francisco bay area. Time to go mushroom hunting, <a href="http://kingsley2.com">Ki</a> ready?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Have Yourself A Psychedelic Christmas]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/have-yourself-a-psychedelic-christmas/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>entheoref</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/have-yourself-a-psychedelic-christmas/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Flying reindeer, birch tree branches and holly everywhere, brightly colored gifts under a pine tree ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flying reindeer, birch tree branches and holly everywhere, brightly colored gifts under a pine tree with a star on top.  Yes, tis the season to be jollyphoric!<br />
I know it's late for gift shopping but the hot item this season is Christian Ratsch's new book, Pagan Christmas.  Extremely detailed research on so many of our traditions.  Great gift idea for family and friends.</p>
<p>Enjoy this excerpt from The Pharmacratic Inquisition documentary about the solstice celebration and the lapland shamans we refer to today a Santa Claus.<br />
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Here is some more info about the origins of the holidays:<br />
<a href="http://www.secondattention.org/articles/psy_christmas.asp">link&#62;&#62;  Second Attention</a><br />
<a href="http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3136.html">link&#62;&#62;  Cannabis Culture</a></p>
<p><span style="color:#009900;font-size:180%;">H<span style="color:#ff0000;">a</span>v<span style="color:#ff0000;">e</span> a <span style="color:#ff0000;">b</span>e<span style="color:#ff0000;">a</span>t<span style="color:#ff0000;">i</span>f<span style="color:#ff0000;">i</span>c <span style="color:#ff0000;">s</span>o<span style="color:#ff0000;">l</span>s<span style="color:#ff0000;">t</span>i<span style="color:#ff0000;">c</span>e <span style="color:#ff0000;">s</span>e<span style="color:#ff0000;">a</span>s<span style="color:#ff0000;">o</span>n <span style="color:#ff0000;">e</span>v<span style="color:#ff0000;">e</span>r<span style="color:#ff0000;">y</span>o<span style="color:#ff0000;">n</span>e<span style="color:#ff0000;">!</span></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ingiere voluntariamente una "amanita faloide" para probar que no era mortal]]></title>
<link>http://fraann.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/ingiere-voluntariamente-una-amanita-faloide-para-probar-que-no-era-mortal/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fran</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fraann.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/ingiere-voluntariamente-una-amanita-faloide-para-probar-que-no-era-mortal/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fuentes de León.-  Un vecino de Fuentes de León (Badajoz), José Manuel Hidalgo Recio, de 45 años]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6290/amanita20phalloidesaj3.th.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" /><span class="color1">Fuentes de León.- </span> Un vecino de Fuentes de León (Badajoz), José Manuel Hidalgo Recio, de 45 años, ha puesto en peligro su vida al ingerir voluntariamente una seta "amanita faloide", ya que, debido a la intoxicación que ha sufrido, ha estado dos días ingresado en la UCI del Hospital "Infanta Cristina" de la capital pacense.</p>
<p>El suceso ocurrió el pasado domingo en el transcurso de unas jornadas micológicas celebradas en Fuentes de León cuando, tras un día de recogida y exposición de hongos, Hidalgo se enzarzó con otros vecinos en una discusión sobre la capacidad letal del ejemplar, que permanecía expuesto con un cartel en el que se alertaba sobre su peligro con la ingesta de sólo veinte gramos.</p>
<p>José María Álvarez, testigo presencial y miembro de la asociación juvenil y medioambiental local "La Sotarraña" -organizadora de las jornadas-, explicó a Efe que, en un momento de la discusión, Hidalgo "agarró de pronto" la seta expuesta y, para probar que no era venenosa, mordió y comenzó a masticar la mitad de su sombrero.</p>
<p>El resto de vecinos le pidieron que la escupiera y que no se la tragara, pero, sin atenderles, se tragó de un segundo bocado todo el sombrero del hongo, por lo que los presentes, alarmados, llamaron a la Guardia Civil y a una ambulancia.</p>
<p>Hidalgo, que mostraba claros signos de embriaguez, seguía manteniendo ante los demás que la seta no era mortal y que ya verían con el paso de las horas quién tenía la razón.</p>
<p>Aunque en un principio se negó a ser trasladado al Hospital de Zafra (Badajoz) en ambulancia, finalmente un amigo le convenció y cuando ya estaba en el centro hospitalario comenzó a sentir los síntomas de la intoxicación, "al hincharse todo su cuerpo, ponerse amarillo y comenzar a vomitar", explicó Álvarez, quien añadió que de inmediato fue trasladado en una UVI móvil al Hospital "Infanta Cristina" de Badajoz.</p>
<p>Tras permanecer dos días ingresado en la UCI, ayer tarde pasó a planta a la espera del resultado de los análisis que le han realizado sobre órganos vitales como el hígado.</p>
<p>Tras visitar al enfermo, el alcalde de Fuentes de León, José Pedro Rubio, aseguró a Efe que se encontraba muy recuperado.</p>
<p>Hidalgo aseguró al alcalde que ingirió la seta "totalmente convencido" de que no era tóxica.</p>
<p>Sí le reconoció, sin embargo, según el alcalde, que el seguimiento practicado a sus órganos ha demostrado que su hígado presentaba un nivel "muy elevado" de transaminasa, una enzima que "se dispara" en este órgano en casos de graves dolencias hepáticas.<br />
<a href="http://www.efe.es/" target="_blank">Fuente: EFE</a></p>
<p>Vía <a href="http://www.absurddiari.com/s/llegir.php?llegir=llegir&#38;ref=13674">Absurd Diari</a></p>
<p>Típico de los españoles, es como decía un monologuista (que no me acuerdo quien era, puede que Piedrahita), todas las frases que empiezan por: "A que...", "Que te apuestas a que...", etc siempre acaban mal, este es un ejemplo.</p>
<p>Estaban ahí todos hablando de como les había ido el día... "Me he encontrao ahí en la orilla del camino unas setas más bonicas que to, pero luego estaban llenas de bichos", "Yo he visto que la gente se tiraba pa la ombría y me he quedao en la solana, que me he encontrado unos rodales buenos", "En una vaguada he visto yo diez o doce juntos", "a la tierra le faltaba una chaparrá", "iba andando y le he pegao una patá a un bulto que creía que era una seta borde y luego era buena" y bueno podría seguir, pero no es plan, entonces en una de estas alguien saltó: "Esta seta la ha cogío Manolo, dice que es de esas mortales" y se oye a José Manuel: "Esa que va a ser venenosa, me he comido yo pocas" a lo que le responden: "Que no hombre, que no las distingues, no ves que tiene el anillo y es así amarillenta" y él en sus trece: "Que no es venenosa ¡Chorra!, me vas a venir tu a decir que no las conozco" y ya le dijeron: "Jose copón, que no sabes lo que dices con la melopea que llevas encima" y José Manuel hizo lo que comentaba al principio, dijo: "a que me la como y no me pasa nada", la gente le decía que no y tal, hasta que le hincó el diente y dijo: "¿ahora qué? ya veréis que no paha na, a ver quien tiene razón".</p>
<p>A las horas estaba Jose Manuel que ya no se tenía y aunque como por cabezonería tenía que tener razón al final cedió y lo trasladaron al hospital donde permaneció dos días. Cuando salió fue a ver con los que discutió y les dijo: "Veis como tenía razón, aquí estoy como nuevo".</p>
<p>La verdad es que con los apellidos Hidalgo Recio es dificil que a este hombre le pase algo.</p>
<p>Saludos a todos, ya sé que la noticia no es actual, pero me la dejé ahí a mitad y tal, bueno a ver, no he estado por aquí nada porque no tengo tiempo de nada, exámenes, clases, cursillos mágicos y más cosas que no me dejan tiempo, lo siento por no atender como se debe, a ver si cuando pasen exámenes y más cosas pues retomar aunque sea en menor grado esto, me sabía mal tanto tiempo sin decir nada. Nos vemos!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Help me ID these mushrooms « mushroom id]]></title>
<link>http://mushroomid.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/help-me-id-these-mushrooms-%c2%ab-mushroom-id/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>joelpeach</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mushroomid.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/help-me-id-these-mushrooms-%c2%ab-mushroom-id/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Help me ID these mushrooms « mushroom id
looking for some help&#8230; anybody know what these are?
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<p>looking for some help... anybody know what these are?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Real Life Super Mario Bros. Mushroom]]></title>
<link>http://bookami.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/real-life-super-mario-bros-mushroom/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bookoo</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bookami.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/real-life-super-mario-bros-mushroom/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here is a time lapsed video of an Amanita Muscaria mushroom, which looks like the mushroom from Supe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a time lapsed video of an Amanita Muscaria mushroom, which looks like the mushroom from Super Mario Bros. games.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/115354.html" target="_blank">http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/115354.html</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[High quality entheogen movie in the works...]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/high-quality-entheogen-movie-in-the-works-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>entheoref</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/high-quality-entheogen-movie-in-the-works-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just saw this on DoseNation  , a documentary about entheogens and religion that takes a humorous app]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">Just saw this on</span> <a href="http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=2830">DoseNation</a>  <span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">, a documentary about entheogens and religion that takes a humorous approach.  It's called The God Botherers and you can watch a ten minute trailer on their website. I think it looks lovely; insights on the current affairs of world religions, samples from psychedelic luminaries, and it's edited really, really well.  It'll be a very high quality film.</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">(The trailer takes a long time to load so start it and pause and come back to it in, like, 5 minutes or so.)</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">Check it out! &#62;</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.thegodbotherers.com/">The God Botherers</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[High quality entheogen movie in the works...]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/high-quality-entheogen-movie-in-the-works/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>entheoref</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Just saw this on DoseNation  , a documentary about entheogens and religion that takes a humorous app]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">Just saw this on</span> <a href="http://www.dosenation.com/listing.php?id=2830">DoseNation</a>  <span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">, a documentary about entheogens and religion that takes a humorous approach.  It's called The God Botherers and you can watch a ten minute trailer on their website. I think it looks lovely; insights on the current affairs of world religions, samples from psychedelic luminaries, and it's edited really, really well.  It'll be a very high quality film.</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">(The trailer takes a long time to load so start it and pause and come back to it in, like, 5 minutes or so.)</span><br /><span style="color:rgb(255, 102, 102);">Check it out! &#62;</span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.thegodbotherers.com/">The God Botherers</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Book 'Shroom' falsley called &quot;rigorous&quot;]]></title>
<link>http://teleomorph.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/book-shroom-falsley-called-rigorous/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This post is from Michael Hoffman (egodeath.com).  I whole-heartedly agree.  I, also, was upset when]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:rgb(153, 153, 255);">This post is from Michael Hoffman (egodeath.com).  I whole-heartedly agree.  I, also, was upset when this general audience book came out attempting to debunk decades or scholarly research:</span></p>
<p>Talks of Letcher's "findings":<br /><a href="http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/490/book_review_andy_letcher_shrooms_magic_mushrooms" target="_blank">http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/490/book_review_andy_letcher_shrooms_mag</a></p>
<p>I also spoke with a modernity-focused psychedelics researcher who also bought into Letcher's illusion of rigor.  I'm starting to agree with Jan Irvin that the shortcomings of Letcher's book could cause some harm and serve as the biggest setback to the field of entheogen scholarship since Wasson's dismissal of the Plaincourault fresco as Amanita and Wasson's complete failure to consider entheogens throughout the Bible &#38; Christian history.</p>
<p>Anyone who hasn't read much entheogen scholarship, and hasn't made that their main focus, is likely to come away from Letcher's book with the mis-impression that the entheogen theory of religion has been proven baseless.  Letcher needs to publish corrections and clarifications to reduce the harm that his half-informed, abridged "popular audience" book has done<br />to the field of entheogen scholarship.</p>
<p>We need more issues of Entheos magazine to dispel the pernicious illusion that the entheogen theory of religious origins = the mushroom theory as popularized using Wasson/Allegro/McKenna, and the illusion that Letcher's book treated all the evidence and arguments for the entheogen or mushroom theory of religious origins &#38; history.  Shroom is a biased treatment: it waves aside much evidence, carelessly treats the existing evidence, and waffles on which hypothesis it is purporting to refute.</p>
<p>The popular version of the mushroom theory of religion that is based on<br />Wasson/Allegro/McKenna has flaws, but neither is Shroom correct.  Letcher is not a general entheogen scholar; he researched the popular Wasson/Allegro/McKenna mushroom theory in isolation.  The resulting biased, distorted picture and treatment demonstrates why authors must be cautious when writing a book about only a single visionary plant.  Authors need to do all their homework across the overall field, to contribute valid studies in the subfields.</p>
<p>Demonstrates Shroom is not rigorous as it needs to be:<br /><a href="http://www.egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm" target="_blank">http://www.egodeath.com/ViewsOnEntheogensInReligiousHistory.htm</a> - high-level<br />analysis of the situation and state of the field; categorizes Letcher's view<br />within a typology of competing paradigms</p>
<p><a href="http://www.egodeath.com/ShroomLetcher.htm" target="_blank">http://www.egodeath.com/ShroomLetcher.htm</a> - relevant book excerpts</p>
<p><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/4577" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/egodeath/message/4577</a> - my Amazon review</p>
<p>-- Michael Hoffman, <a href="http://egodeath.com/" target="_blank">Egodeath.com</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Fly Amanita]]></title>
<link>http://digitalhillbilly.wordpress.com/2006/11/04/fly-amanita/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Amanita muscaria
Been looking for one of these all fall. It has to be the most recognisable mushroom]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Amanita muscaria</em></p>
<p>Been looking for one of these all fall. It has to be the most recognisable mushroom. In my mind anyway. Every fall in Vancouver I would go look for mushrooms in my neighbourhood and Queen Elizabeth Park - my facourite Vancouver park and went there a lot. I always lived within a few blocks from it.  If I hadn't moved to Cumberland this blog would be about QE Park and lawn mushrooms.  There is a Fly Amanita there that returns every year. It gets very large... Wish I had a picture to show you.</p>
<p align="left">This one is on it's way down and it seems some slug took a chomp from it. Perhap in a few millenia and if you follow <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna">Terence McKenna's</a> "stoned ape theory", this slug will be driving around with a cel phone drinking a StarBucks' (<a href="http://act.oxfamamerica.org/campaign/starbucks_mtf">Tell Starbucks to Give Ethiopian Farmers Their Fair Share</a>).</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://digitalhillbilly.wordpress.com/files/2006/11/1102_aman.jpg" border="1" height="533" vspace="5" width="400" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[a Blusher?]]></title>
<link>http://digitalhillbilly.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/a-blusher/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Amanita rubescens &amp; A. novinupta
I really don&#8217;t know if this is an amanita. From my refere]]></description>
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<p>I really don't know if this is an amanita. From my reference books, this one best resembles the Blusher but there are enough differences to make me question it. I guess digging for a bulb would have told me if this is an amanita otr not but I rarely pick or touch mushrooms I find - except for ones I'm specifically looking for.</p>
<p align="center"><img src="http://digitalhillbilly.wordpress.com/files/2006/11/1001_aman.jpg" border="1" height="300" vspace="5" width="400" /></p>
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