Most bizarre culinary story I've ever read.

[Mick-7]

The exact same hallucination! Maybe they provide a chemical portal to another dimension.
The mushroom that makes people all have the same hallucination

[wolflen]

The exact same hallucination! Maybe they provide a chemical portal to another dimension.
The mushroom that makes people all have the same hallucination

Could be there is a mushroom in parts of Ireland that has caused folks to see "little people"

Perhaps our government should
study this...not our govt science folks..

Congress!!

[pauln]

Robert Anton Wilson's experiments revealed within Cosmic Trigger (about 50 years ago) mention that peyote summons the appearance of an elfish green trickster that corresponds to a similar figure in many cultures.

[DawgBone]

Similar spirit being experiences are reported with DMT and Ayahuasca.

No thanks.

[Mick-7]

Similar spirit being experiences are reported with DMT and Ayahuasca. No thanks.

Yes, Terence McKenna said that what he called "machine elves" are associated with the DMT experience, but not everyone sees them, whereas this story suggests that everyone who ingested this particular mushroom saw the same entities, which would be unique.

"In research he is preparing for publication, chemical extracts from lab specimens produced behavioural changes in mice similar to those reported in humans. After being administered the mushroom extracts, the mice experienced a period of hyperactivity followed by a long stupor where the rodents did not move much."

Too bad the mice can't tell us what they experienced, did they see miniature mice-like entities rather than miniature humans?

[wolflen]

Yes, Terence McKenna said that what he called "machine elves" are associated with the DMT experience, but not everyone sees them, whereas this story suggests that everyone who ingested this particular mushroom saw the same entities, which would be unique.

"In research he is preparing for publication, chemical extracts from lab specimens produced behavioural changes in mice similar to those reported in humans. After being administered the mushroom extracts, the mice experienced a period of hyperactivity followed by a long stupor where the rodents did not move much."

Too bad the mice can't tell us what they experienced, did they see miniature mice-like entities rather than miniature humans?

Years back on late night radio the McKenna brothers would talk about their "experiments" with LSD and other head drugs..

They were taking Pure acid..not street drugs..and large doses..talk about "Trippin' Hard"

[Mick-7]

Terence McKenna theorized that humankind became self-aware as a consequence of consuming psychedelic mushrooms on the African savannah, fungi such as this one: New psychedelic fungus rewrites origins of magic mushrooms | Popular Science

It's an interesting hypothesis but I think that most anthropologists pooh-poohed the idea - and not just because the mushrooms tend to grow in animal manure.

I believe this is the book in which he presented his theory: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge by Terence McKenna

[benhatchins]

crazy. That story is honestly wild, one of those things you read twice just to make sure you didn’t miss something. Food-related stories can get strange fast, especially when they mix in unexpected details. It’s the kind of thing you bring up later just because it stuck with you. Everyone has that one bizarre story they’ve come across. Oddly enough, it reminds me of when you go searching for something random like a Harry And David phone number and end up down a completely different rabbit hole. Same unpredictable energy.