Author: Plot55

Adam Gottlieb From the Publisher Most concise, readable book on the art of extracting psilocybin from magic mushrooms. Includes closet production and explains small and large scale production. How to locate magic mushrooms, develop stock for inoculation, cultivate, harvest, and dry ‘shrooms. Explains how mycelium can be grown in inexpensive jars and methods of extracting…

O. T. Oss & O. N. Oeric From the Back Cover Psilocybin is a highly visionary natural compound with a long tradition of shamanic use and a close similarity to normal brain chemistry. This book is the revised and expanded edition of the unsurpassed classic manual on home cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms. Plot55 Says The…

James Arthur From the Introduction For thousands (maybe millions) of years on our planet, humanity has been involved in a symbiotic relationship with plants. Not only have plants supplied mankind with a never ending food-source, the necessary nourishment for our bodies and life itself, but they have also served us in another way: an extremely…

Paul Stamets & J.S. Chilton Plot55 Says I have not read this book, but I have been told by an unbiased owner that it is THE mighty tome of mushroom cultivation. It will give you all the practical, technical and scientific information you will ever need (and lots more besides) about growing mushrooms of all…

Paul Stamets From the Publisher From fear and loathing to adulteration and worship – mushrooms have long evoked a range of diverse reactions. Whether they’re cultivated for food, religious sacraments, medicine, or a variety of other newly discovered uses, fleshy fungi have gained a high level of respect for their delicious flavors, groundbreaking medicinal properties,…

Richard Cooper Plot55 Says Although this book includes information on several Psiloybin active British species (plus some Amanitas), I wouldn’t use it for hunting anything other than P. semilanceata (Liberty Caps). It is a very good introduction for the novice (especially at such a low price), but for real quality information I would buy Paul…

R. E. Schultes From the Back Cover Where the Gods Reign is a vivid illustration of the evolutionary relationship between man and the biome he lives in. Dr. Schultes, the legendary ethnobotanist of the Amazon, has been a pivotal figure in the effort to inventory, tap, and conserve the genetic wealth of the tropical rainforests-…

R. E. Schultes From the Back Cover We have here a wonderful integration of ethnobotany, chemistry and photography to produce a book that will long be an important historic record of one of the threatened cultures of the world. I hope that readers learning about ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, and other psychoactive drugs…

Richard Davenport-Hines From the Back Cover A history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted laborers, high-powered businessmen, playboys, sex workers, pop stars, seedy losers, stressed adolescents, defiant schoolchildren, the victims of the ghetto, and happy…

Baron Ernst von Bibra From the Publisher Plant Intoxicants is a pioneering study of psychoactive plants and their role in society. Initially published in Nuremberg in 1855, it is one of the first books to examine the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of the world’s major stimulants and inebriants. Drawing on his own travel experiences as…