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- dear mu shroom friends,
-
- fungi are a fascinating form of life, which we have barely begun to
- understand. i hope, that you are familiar with at least two or three books on
- the subject already, and i'll try to put all the additional information i
- have into these pages. i will also try to give an answer to all of your
- questions, if i have one myself. (so: if you don't find the info you asked
- for here, and i don't answer explicitely, i just don't know myself !)
-
- please note, that -just to make sure to be on the safe side- i did not keep
- any record of your name or address, and your letters were burnt.
-
- so i cannot write to you again, but i will keep checking for letters at 1092
- for quite a time. email to "miracoulix", AN148626@anon.penet.fi will also
- find me. should i find out something new about pcy-ao, i would submit it to
- the E.R. (and also post it >>>>>some place(s)<<<<< on the net), and i ask
- you to do the same. ??? =============== ???
-
-
- SPORE GERMINATION AND AGAR CULTURE :
-
- there seems to be hardly any difference between different MEA and PD(Y)A-
- formulas or between cheapest agar agar or a highly purified quality, or
- whether pH is adjusted precisely, phosphate or trace elements are added or
- not. high humidity is absolutely essential for spore germination; within a
- reasonable range (i estimate: (5)10-30(40)xC for pcyao) temperature has
- effect on the speed but hardly on overall success.
- strain selection: dont bet on one horse. if uncontminated you can can use the
- (mixed) cultures resulting from spore germination to produce a first run of
- spawn. but also select several different strains
-
- GROWING SPAWN ON GRAIN AND WOOD :
-
- pcyao seems to like barley, oats, rye, wheat, or rice alike. the exact
- composition hardly seems to matter, but the consistency is very important -
- you have to optimize your grain/water-ratio. my personal favourite mixture is
- half oats (least "sticky"), a quarter millet (often used for commercial spawn
- production. advantage: many small granules), rest: mixture of other as
- available.
- pcyao also seems to like nearly any kind of wood. i tried fir, larch, beech,
- birch, willow, and others, but could not detect any difference in growth. (at
- least) for spawn-making i recommend the use of debris from planing (clean +
- dry) wood or similar material, more coarse than sawdust, and either soaked in
- water overnight or sterilized shortly with steam (allow to drip off a few
- hours!), instead of freshly chopped branches.
- mycelial growth is stimulated by higher concentration of CO2. i use glass
- jars for sterilizing grain media and large plastic bags with only a few tiny
- holes for growing wood-spwan. ..... to-be-continued .....
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- McCopies & D.Stribute * STARSEED * PL 0 SAG MA 0 VIR
-
- Enclosed is spores of PCY-AO, collected in fall 1994. Please treat them with
- responsibility and the respect due to all forms of life.
-
- ! item void where prohibited - prohibition void if violating human rights !
-
- They come from mushrooms growing outside in a forest environment, and
- therefore some contamination with other spores is possible. But great care
- was taken not to introduce additional contaminants, and the sporeprints were
- all sealed into plastic within a few days of taking them. Especially when
- kept in a cool and dark place they will stay viable for many years.
- At least small parts of the spores of each mushroom were already spread in
- promising places and so given back to earth, thankfully.
-
- These spores are provided to enable research on this fascinating but not well
- known organism. Your feedback will be highly welcome. I hope that this will
- help to find answers to some of below. They must not be sold and neither the
- spores nor any derivatives thereof should be used to gain personal profit or
- for other ethically doubtful purposes.
-
- There is many things to learn still about TEONANACATL in it's many forms:
-
- - PCY-AO certainly belongs to the genus Psilocybe, but the exact species is
- currently not known. Local mycologists stated that sHe does fit the
- description of Psilocybe Cyanescens in 'all' points; other people tend to
- believe that it is a separate species.
-
- - Very probably the high entheogenic potency of PCY-AO is due mainly to its
- comparably high content of psilocybin and/or psilocin. (Nor)Baeocystin and
- yet unknown compounds may also be present. To my knowledge until now no
- analytical data exist. Dried samples of PCY-AO were sent to the university of
- Leipzig for a chemical analysis, the results of which will hopefully be
- available soon.
-
- + Progress in the most promising kind of research, however - the goal of
- which was summarized beautifully by Aldous Huxley in 1962 in a letter to
- Albert Hofmann (below) - has been made nearly impossible for several decades
- now through propaganda, censorship and oppression, which now openly employ
- the methods of war . . .
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- I hope to see the development of a technique of >Applied Mysticism< - a
- technique for individuals to get the most out of their transcendental
- experience and to make use of the insights from the >Other World< in the
- affairs of >This World<. (Meister Eckhart wrote that 'What is taken in by
- contemplation must be given out in love'.) This is what must be developed -
- the Art of giving out in Love and Intelligence what is taken in from Vision
- and the Experience of self-transcendence and solidarity
- with Universe. (edited, 1994)
-
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-
- .. there still is hope .. the wall in Berlin did come down, too, ..
-
- .. just another crack in your wall.
- 0.
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- to my revered teacher, and powerful ally, T E O N A N A C A T L
-
- "I am older, older than thought in your species. My Mystic and Magickal
- powers have been known by WOmen since thousands of years before Buddha and
- Christ. Societies that have followed my rule have lived in harmony with
- nature. I can bring the mightiest wars before your eyes, or - show you -
- Death. Can show you: certainty (not faith) and peace - unutterable. And I
- can give you laughter, joy, and ecstasy - ineffable. Showing the future to
- those who dare is nothing: I could place you with the Gods. And my joy is
- to see your joy and my ecstasy is in yours. Learning to reproduce my
- growing environment you will come to love me. The mushrooms which you see
- are only the part of my body dedicated to sex thrills, sunbathing and the
- communion with symbiotic species. My true body, hardware for my collective
- hypermind, is an underground network of fine fibers, which may cover many
- acres, grow for thousands of years, and can have far more connections than
- even the human brain. Learning .. thy Way .. you will look upon me with awe
- and amazement - For I am the Flesh of the Gods. "
-
- (1) O. T. Oss, O. N. Oeric - Psilocybin/ Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide
- (1976), 2nd, revised ed. available. (2) S. L. Peele - Fruit Of The Gods
- (1982). (3) for descriptions of giant armillaria fungi (honey mushrooms)
- see Nature, April 1992; Mycoinfo, archived at: gopher.econet
- .apc.org/environment/misc/mycology. (4) Lao Tse - Tao Te King
-
- The classic (1) sold more than 100,000 copies and helped a lot to ensure
- that TEONANACATL will not be (again) censored into oblivion. The grain-jar
- method of growing Ps. Cubensis and other leave/compost/dung-eating species
- is fastest and can easily be done indoors. But it is also quite laborious,
- and even if these mushrooms are grown on straw or compost, the cultures are
- short-lived and require repeated sterile lab work for propagation. (5)
-
- Wood-loving species, however, (and especially those preferring a colder
- climate), like Ps. Cyanescens, can easily be allowed to grow in outdoor
- beds like perennial plants -comparable to trees-, requiring no (more)
- labwork. It should be pointed out, that mushrooms of a strikingly similar
- habitat are probably (among) the biggest living organisms on earth today,
- as well as among the oldest (3).
- J. Gartz recently described a "new method of mushroom cultivation in N-
- America", which can indeed do without any labwork (6).
-
- Some european growers prefer to start with a (onetime) run of spawn-
- production (agar-dishes, glasses of oats/rye/barley, then glasses/bags of
- woodchips) in spring, which usually results in a first harvest in fall, and
- a mushroom bed that can be enlarged both in area and yield in the next
- years and very probably be maintained far beyond human lifetime. Clean wood
- debris (like from a planing machine. sawdust does not work) seem to work
- even better than freshly chopped wood. Although Ps. Cy. seems to be able to
- fruit on plain wood without any casing, it is advisable to supply the bed
- with enough soil (+seeds), and leaves and larger branches, as the mushrooms
- really love to grow in between and under grass or other plants.
-
- The mushroom-beds obtained can be left on their own most of the year and
- (in a good location) need attention only at harvesting time. Outdoors
- unfavorable weather may of course diminish or prevent a year's harvest, but
- as this cannot hurt the mass of underground mycelium, the shrooms will just
- make up for it next season.
-
- (5) P. Stamets, J. S. Chilton - The Mushroom Cultivator (1983)
- (6) Integration, J. for mind-moving plants & culture, 4 (1993)
-
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-
-
- "Oh, growing them seems to be no less consciousness - expanding than eating
- them." a -then new- pupil of Teonanacatl quite correctly realized.
-
-
- Psilocybe cyanescens Astoria Ossip made its way to europe from the northern
- U.S., but may well have originated elsewhere, even -as a mycologist pointed
- out- from (sub)tropical mountain areas. Like Psilocybe Cyanescens
- (Wakefield), the "Wavy Cap" known from Britain and US., IT NEEDS A FEW
- WEEKS OF COLD (NEAR FREEZING) WEATHER FOR FRUITING, and seems to feed on
- any kind of wood, cardboard or similar. Mycelium and fruiting bodies are
- strongly blueing and the latter have an entheogenic potency, which was
- described as 'at least twice that of Ps. Cub.' and 'not weaker than Ps.
- Semilanc.' after comparisons with dried and weighed samples. The caps of
- Ps. cy. A. O., which easily grow bigger than 3" in dia, are often
- distinctly umbonate and rarely wavy, and there is other hints, that it may
- just as well be a species closely related to, but not identical with
- Psilocybe Cyanescens.
-
- The visionary experience induced by 2 to 2.5 g (dry/80 kg) of P. cy. A. O.
- has been described as colorful, psychedelic and as deep and far-out as can
- be, effecting the mind without any stress on the body. It may encompass
- about everything which S. Grof described in his excellent books (7) or
- which can be found in the Bardo Tdol (8). It is sometimes threatening,
- nearly always astonishing and enlightening, and has been found healing in
- quite a few cases.
-
- (7) (+Halifax) Human Encounter with Death -- Realms of the Unconsciousness
- -- LSD Psychotherapy -- Beyond Death. (8) The Tibetan Book of Death.
-
- Ps. cy. A. O. grows very vigorously and usually produces spores copiously.
- It is quite exciting to watch under a microscope, how a high percentage of
- these germinate within 6-36 hours when put onto agar at room temperature.
-
- * Send at least $ 2 (cash or stamps only) for more infos, or $ 5 for a
- small sample of spores (but ample enough for microscopy and propagation),
- or $ 10 to $ 20 for an entire, more decorative sporeprint of P. cy. A. O.
- to: TEONANACATL/(postlagernd)/ Postamt 1092 Wien/ A-1092 Vienna, Austria *
-
-
- TUNE IN: to universal knowledge and perception unveiled.
- DROP OUT: object consumerism. stop the war against Earth and People.
- TURN ON: SMI**2LE: Increase Intelligence.
-
- ... and *study* all of Leary, A. Huxley and R. A. Wilson ! and Kerouac &
- Castaneda. TEONANACATL teaches patience and perseverance, too.
-
- !
- TEONANACATL does not sell mushrooms. TEONANACATL does not sell anything.
- TEONANACATL teaches that materialistic consumerism is endangering
- WOmankind. TEONANACATL advocates conscientious consumerism objection.
- TEONANACATL explicitly disrecommends the breaking of any Law.
- TEONANACATL teaches responsibility.
- TEONANACATL is a model for networking and cooperation.
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