XPost: alt.drugs.psychedelics   
   From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   mimus wrote:   
   > Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>This mushroom has proved to be *definitely* psychoactive.   
   >   
   >   
   > Raw? or do you have to cook it for the funny stuff? I've read reports   
   > before that indicated cooking was either necessary or at least highly   
   > desirable for that effect.   
   >   
   > I only know of one location for it, big egg-shaped fist-sized mommas   
   > apparently growing in the middle of a dirt road in the woods (several   
   > buried stumps nearby), but it's _not_ psychoactive, raw or cooked,   
   > although plenty bitter.   
   >   
      
   I've tried it raw, several times.  Intense bitterness combined with   
   nausea resulted in some violent purges...  Afterward, in a dark, quiet   
   place, I was given rise to some mighty impressive visuals; full   
   immersion in psychedelic tryptamine space.  Amazing.   
      
   Mind you, I ate quite a bit, ~150g; several whole mushrooms processed   
   with frozen grapefruit conc. in a blender.  I kept the mushrooms   
   refrigerated, and processed cold.  This was to prevent hypothetical   
   enzymatic and oxidative degradation of active tryptamines.   
      
   However, I have also dried them.  These stayed *very* active without any   
   noticeable lack of potency for 6 months.  Fully psychoactive.   
   Bitterness was much diminished, too.  Ingestion was much easier given   
   the much decreased volume and decreased bitterness.   
      
   The experience is not what I'd call fun, compared to experiences when I   
   was much younger.  There was considerable paranoia in the early stages,   
   and a furious barrage of thoughts that felt like all the stops had been   
   pulled in my brain.  Later, the pace slowed, and I drifted weightless   
   through a psychedelic cosmos, beyond beautiful, with full control over   
   where I chose to explore.   
      
   Never tried cooking it.  I'd think some of the active ingredients would   
   be heat labile.   
      
   Interestingly, I was thinking of leaving it be this year, as a sort of   
   offering to the forest and the mushroom spirits, and out of respect to   
   its resilience in this very dry year.  Well, what do you know - we got   
   rain today!  First rain in almost 7 weeks.  Not much, between a third   
   and a half inch in the forest near my home.  Every time I pay homage to   
   the mushroom spirits, I'm rewarded by fortunate coincidence.   
      
      
   --   
   I can tell your future just look what's in your hand...   
      
   - Robert Hunter   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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