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There is a similar exhibition called 'C****… And Other Conversations’ by Greg Taylor at MONA in Hobart. Well worth a visit, especially because its free!

Wow amazing glowing fungi! I put some photos of this mushroom I took in Tasmania in another thread. Really caught my eye, the colours and texture of the caps are beautiful. Was right outside my tent, pity it poured with rain that night so I didn't get to see them glowing.

I think these are Omphalotus nidiformis, photographed in Tasmania.

Broadcasting 8.30 pm on SBS One (Channel 3) INTO THE UNIVERSE WITH STEPHEN HAWKING: ALIENS (Part 1 of 4) tephen Hawking, the world's most famous scientific mind, hosts a four-part ultimate guide to the universe. In the first episode, Hawking uses science along with his brilliant imagination to explore the possibilities of intelligent alien life existing beyond Earth and the likelihood of future contact. With the aid of stunning CGI, he takes us on a journey from Mars and the moons of Jupiter to other galaxies and theorises about what alien life forms might look like. (From the UK) (Documentary Series)

maybe in the Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Mushrooms part: could be: ? edit: added (see Amanita muscaria ~ "Fly Agaric" entry above) part

Should you put a caveat regarding proper preparation being required for amanita muscaria intoxication to be pleasant? As it currently reads it implies ingesting fresh amanita can be enjoyable which I don't think too many people would agree with. Reading this guide makes me want to visit the americas and hunt fungi, you guys have so many cool mushrooms!

yes the psilocybes get most of the attention, for good reason based on some of my unpleasant experiences with amanita. as this thread has shown amanita requires a bit of first and knowledge of how to prepare it etc, and the tradition just doesn't exist here. given its historical significance in siberia, and possibly europe and north america, i agree its worth further investigation.

yeah I heard a similar discussion on the history of the 2012 meme on the gnostic media podcast. I always took the 2012 and timewave phenomena with a grain of salt, as I always felt that they were created by the likes of mckenna to facilitate change in society at large, rather than be real prophecies of the future.

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Quick someone put these birds in a cage before they annoy any more residents with their drunken antics!

A relevant and recent interview with Dennis McKenna on a New York radio station Interview with Dennis Mckenna - Psychedelic Salon

nice I like! Something from a different genre – Eek-a-mouse: Ganja Smuggling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6r_MVjY9p0 Maybe its not totally psychedelic but its a very cool song about the a much loved entheogen.

lol electronic music fans can be quite discriminating when it comes to genres. check out Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music for a tongue-in-cheek breakdown of electronic music genres. It's about 10 years out of date but still worth a look as the comments on some of the more obscure genres are hilarious. I especially like the Techno - VGM and Casiocore genres

sounds like it's definitely worth the effort to prepare it properly. I think a first timers report can be quite valuable as its not tainted by tolerance or assumptions from past experiences. thanks for your report.

Wikipedia: Valerian (herb) I'll have to remember that one... yummy.

thanks frank, I'll definitely have to read Andy Letcher's book next. Sounds interesting: So I guess he answers no to these questions then? Guess I shouldn't fall under Allegro's spell before I read these other opinions. Either way, I'm keen to hear more about Ubza's amanita experience as there is so much conflicting information regarding this mushroom.

maybe try making tea out of valerian root instead of pills. I find the process of making the tea, letting it cool and drinking it very relaxing. It doesn't knock me out but I find a small amount of valerian helps me relax enough to get to sleep without any side effects the following day. edit: only problem with valerian tea is your house mates will think your insane for drinking such a horrendous tasting and smelling beverage. I dunno, it tastes fine to me.

agreed, but I'd hope most guerilla planting is done in landscaped gardens in public spaces, universities etc that lost their native species long ago.

I fast for 6 or 7 hours before a mushroom trip so that my stomach is empty and the experience will come on as fast and as hard as possible. If I eat say 30 minutes before then take the mushrooms, the effects take up to 2 hours to come on, whereas with fasting its more like 30 minutes. I eat lots of food towards the end of the trip to "turn it off" and help me sleep - something about having food in the stomach taking blood away from the brain maybe. Mushrooms are an interesting case though as they themselves are a food and quite nutritious. When eating fresh mushrooms taking them is like a meal in itself - perhaps the mushroom is designed this way to give the recipient everything they need for the journey. One certainly couldn't say this about LSD. I think gastric discomfort has a lot to do how healthy your diet is and what you have in your stomach at the time of ingestion. I wouldn't be surprised if following an ayahuasca dieta would remove almost all gastric discomfort from any psychedelic.

yeah I saw neelix for the first time at rainbow serpent, and liked what I heard

I would say for me psychedelic music is music that is inspired by the psychedelic experience generally, not necessarily just LSD - although I understand why you say this as LSD has probably been the most influential psychedelic in the contemporary music scene. It's great to listen to a track and 'feel' the psychedelic state of mind through the music - music can be a very powerful tool for conveying ideas that are otherwise ineffable. most definitely

very interesting ubza, my 2 or 3 experiences with amanita have either been underwhelming or highly unpleasant. But in reading your post I see my preparation and dose may have been insufficient. I'm reading John Rush's book "The mushroom in christian art" and Allegro's "Sacred mushroom and the cross" at the moment, and it puts forward a pretty good case for amanita being an important sacrament in early christianity. And of course there is Wasson with his theory of amanita as soma from the vedas. From your experience, can you envisage amanita being worthy of this adoration? It never seemed to fit for me as the psilocybin experience seems so much more profound in that it can initiate the "contact with aliens" experience, see other worlds etc. Could you elaborate a bit more on the experience? Was it mainly a euphoria, or was their a sense of the "other" there as well, as with psilocybin mushrooms?

I had a fascination with hinduism and the Vedas a few years ago, particularly the Eternal Mother Goddess Kali, or Kalika. Kali is considered the creator and destroyer of worlds, and I feel is therefore particularly relevant to the current global predicament where the dawn of new age or world of enlightenment and return to the feminine is eminent. In hindsight, I would have chosen a more light hearted name such as YipYip, in reverence to the sesame st aliens that haunted my childhood

I see you have a thing for ms paint artwork chnt yeah I agree, the media has its dirty little paws in every pie. thats why `alternative' media and forums like these are important, so we are not just consuming content from a centralised source.