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Mushroom John's Tales of the Shrooms
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A majority of the published articles appearing below here as published by John W. Allen along with numerous scholarly co-authors may be viewed in two separate forms. Of course, not all articles were extended or expanded for this website. Some of the published articles appearing on these pages are actual 100% as printed, Some from the actual journal reprints presented to the authors by the publishers of the journals and then, some of the same articles were written as published, except to some extent, were hand-typed and expanded, including new aditional text and data not published as submitted to the journals in which my articles appeared. Also, in some of the re-hand-typed versions, a majority of the black and white photographs were removed and excellent colored photographs were then added to improve the quality of the content as well as providing the reader, whether student, teacher, scholar, and/or amateur who shared with all shroom lovers, information only available to those who enjoy surfing this cool site which displays for the public, more than 15,000 photographs related to many of the various sundry fields of Ethnomycology, providing them a chance to improve their knowledge of all aspects associated with these fungi and their history. Replacing such data and adding into older works, I have given much of my life, time and money to be able to go to exotic countries throughout the world to bring to all of you, a better ooutlook of what these mushrooms are, what they do to one who enjoys the symbiosis they obtain while in communion with the mushrooms and in tune with all life that surrounds their aura while they bioassay their findings and report to many, what they saw, felt, understood, and most of all, learned from their experience. This restoration of many articles greatly improved the quality of the content in those expanded versions of my writings. As noted, my Hawaiian paper that I honored my colleague, Dr. Mark D. Merlin by his accepting the position of 1st author, appeared in an issue of the "Journal of Ethnopharmacology." An example is the reprint here of my paper, Species Identification of Psychoactive Agarics in the Hawaiian Islands." The actual article posted here is shorter than the original version in the "Journal of Ethnopharmacology." Yet the book version is over 52 pages with only 4 colorewd photos and colored cover. The version posted here on my site is even longer than that of my book by a few pages. It has more text and photos than the original article. Enjoy!

 

30 Published Papers of John W. Allen. Many black and white photos replaced with color prints for high quality. The Occurrence, Use and Detection of Psilocine, Psilocybine and Baeocystine in Psilocybe villarrealiae from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. The Occurrence, Recreational Use, Cultivation, and Chemistry of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, a new Bluing Species (Agaricales) from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Ethnomycological Journals: Sacred Mushroom Studies Vol. VIII Abstract of Lecture at Southeast Asian Conference, Hua Hin, Thailand, 1998 The Ascent and Spread of Psilocybian Consciousness (with James Arthur). My Review of Arik Moonhawk Roper's, "A Visionary Guide To Mushroom Magick." A Review of Andy Letcher's book, Shrooms: A Cultural History. A Dysphoric Reaction To Psilocybe cyanescens. Magic Mushroom Farms of the Nederlands. Teonanacatl: Ancient Shamanic Mushroom Names of Mesoamerica and other Regions of the World. The Aztecs and the Mushrooms. Psychoactive Mushroom Use in Koh Samui and Koh Pha-Ngan, Thailand. Psychoactive Mushroom Use in Thailand: Some Aspects of their Relationships to Human Use, Law and Art. A New Bluing Psilocybe from Thailand. A New Bluing Psilocybe from Thailand. - PDF VERSION WITH PHOTO. The Ethnomycology, Biochemistry, and Cultivation of Psilocybe samuiensis Commercial Activities related to Psychoactive Fungi Use in Thailand. Species Identification and Chemical Analysis of Psychoactive Fungi in the Hawaiian Islands (Extended Version). A Private Inquiry into the 1972 Death of John Gomilla Jr. who died after allegedly consuming 10 magic mushrooms in Hawaii. Observations Regarding the Suspected Psychoactive Properties of Panaeolus Foenisecci Maire. Close Encounters of the Panaeolus Kind. Mushroom Pioneers. Distribution of the Hallucinogenic P. antioquensis Guzmán et al. (Agaricomycetideae) in Colombia, Mexico and Cambodia. Fresh Mushrooms Mushrooms In Paradise: Hawaiian Style. Wasson's First Voyage A New Record of Psilocybe pegleriana in Asia (Basidiomicotina, Agaricales, Strophariaceae). Psilocybian Mushroom Cultivation: A Brief History (With Jochen Gartz, Ph.D.) A Worldwide Geographical Distribution of the Neurotropic Fungi (Slow Loading with pictures). A Worldwide Geographical Distribution of the Neurotropic Fungi (Photos not posted yet).

 

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A Biography and Bibliography of John W. Allen aka Mushroom John

Magazine Articles by John W. Allen


 

Anthropological and Cultural Scholarly Historical Mushroom Data for Amateurs, Students and Scholars Alike. Created April 16, 2010. Recreated July 14, 2010. Copyrights of the articles presented on these pages are from various sources originally written between the late 1400s and up until and through 2012.

 

A collection of rare and hard to fine articles on psilocybian mushrooms and those who wrote of them. From the Olmecs, Toltecs and Aztecs of the 15th century to the present-day use by Mazatec and others indigenous tribal-groups residing in Central Mexico (Oaxaca to Xalapa to Central America (Guatemala).

 

TALES OF THE SHROOMS Presents 16-Newly posted, rare and hard to find scholarly articles contributed to the world of ethnomycology by the worlds most renown ethnobotanist, the late Dr. Richard Evans Schultes, whose lifetime of research earned him the distinguished honorary title as the "Father of Ethnobotany." This section also includes two short biographies. One fantastic biography published in the New Yorker Magazine and a shorter biography of Richard Evans Schultes written by Wade Davis, author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow." A short version of Wade Davis' giant volumed tale of Dr. Schultes' Amazonian trails, "One River" appeared as a short bio for the magazine, "Shaman's Drum."

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RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES was one of the original pioneers of this last century to be the first of several botanists, mycologists, anthropologists and others who became a few of the first to collect actual possible mushroom specimens that might hold the power of the Gods. And Dr. Schultes studied deeply the foundations of the Spanish Conquest of Nueva España and was one of the first to publish in English, the historical data from the Spanish Conquest that described the somewhat widespread practive of using mushrooms in healing and curing ceremonies. Dr. Schultes wrote in two papers, published in 1939 and 1940, his concepts of the use of mushrooms by ancient primitive peoples of the new world. Later, others followed his examples by adding to his earlier work, new studies, lengthy papers papers on themushrooms, the Aztec cultures who used them and their contemporary use in the 1950s that led to widespread use by Western Civilization as a means to alter consciouness, to change ideas, to find religion and so next came the writings of Singer and Smith. Dr. Rolf Singer's papers and those eventually were sent to the Wasson's and that led R. Gordon Wasson and his colleagues to Oaxaca and Maria Sabina, via Blas Pablos Reko; all through the shared common courtesy of Dick Schultes to the Wassons: Presenting the revelations of Richard Evans Schultes concerning the true historical facts the Spanish historians interpretations of the sacred mushrooms as used by the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs and most likely the native Mayan peoples as transcribed by the scholarly Spanish historians, Bernardo de Sahagún, botanists, chroniclers, Franciscan monks (Diego Duran), and Dominican friars. And first published in the New World in the mid 1900s the accounts of the Náhuatl speaking tribal groups into Mazatec and then into Spanish and eventually translated into the English language and presented to the academic world of the west by Dr. Richard Evans Schultes.

 

John Allen's, "MODERN SCHOLARLY RESEARCH (1900-1938)." Richard Evans Schultes's, "THE IDENTIFICATION OF TEONANACATLE: A NARCOTIC BASIDIOMYCETE OF THE AZTECS." Richard Evans Schulte's,"TEONANACATL: THE NARCOTIC MUSHROOM OF THE AZTECS (1940)." Rolf Singer's, "MYCOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS ON TEONANÁCATL: THE MEXICAN HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOM. PART I. THE HISTORY OF TEONANÁCATL, FIELD WORK AND CULTURE WORK (1958). Richard Evans Schultes,"TEONANACATE (TEONANACATL): BOTANICAL SOURCES OF THE NEW WORLD NARCOTICS") (1963). Richard Evans Schultes,"THE PLANT KINGDOM AND THE HALLUCINOGENS: PART I" (July 1969). Richard Evans Schultes, "LITTLE FLOWERS OF THE GODS," October, 1987 [High Times]. Reprinted from, Schultes R. E. and A. Hofmann With signed letter by Dr. Schultes, 1988). Richard Evans Schultes, "3-PAGED LETTER FROM DICK SCHULTES TO JOHN W. ALLEN, JANUARY, 1988." "E. J. Kamm., Jr's, PROFILES: JUNGLE BOTANISHT-NEW YORKER MAGAZINE BIOGRAPHY," (1992). Wade Davis': RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES AND HIS SEARCH FOR TEONANÁCATL, 1938-1939." SHAMAN'S DRUM JOURNAL, 1997. Deborah Lynn Siegel's, RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES, SWASHBUCKLING ETHNOBOTANIST, TRP MAGAZINE, Fall, 2001. "Jonathan Kandall's, "RICHARD E. SCHULTES, 86, DIES: TRAILBLAZING AUTHORITYON HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS." NEW YORK TIME OBITUARY, APRIL 13, 2001 (2 versions)(1 PHOTO). Wade Davis', ONE RIVER: EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE AMAZON RAIN FOREST (A Biography of Richard Evans Schultes," (1996). "3-LETTERS FROM DICK SCHULTES TO JOHN W. ALLEN," (1989, 1989, 1994). Rolf Singer's, "MEDICAL MUSHROOMS. (1957). OTHER SCHOLARLY ARTICLES ARE POSTED BELOW   BOOK REVIEWS OF BY SHROOM LOVERS OF ANDY LETCHER'S "SHROOMS" and by Dr. TJAKKO STIJVE OF JOHN ALLEN'S,CD-ROM "TEONANÁCATL: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENTHEOGENIC FUNGI," with Jochen Gartz. Brian Aakers' Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." John Allen's Review of Andy Letcher's Book, "Shrooms." A Kind Reply by Dr. Andy Letcher to John Allen on his Review of Andy Letcher's Book, "Shrooms." Billy Bardo's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." G. V. Guest's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." R. Hardy "Rob" Hardy's Stijve's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Jan Irivin's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." James Kent's Review of Andy Letcher's Book, "Shrooms." H. Mowrec's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Mr. A. Muscaria's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Onanas' Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Dr. Tjakko Stijve's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Jacob Sullum's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Magickal Merlin "Wizard's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." Bwookie's Review of Andy Letcher's Book,"Shrooms." ANDREW WEIL INTERVIEW - HIGH TIMES - AUG-SEPT 1975 BERNARD LOWY'S, HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS IN GUATEMALA I ATE THE SACRED MUSHROOMS BY VALENTINA WASSON EDMOND R. BADHAM'S, "THE ETHNOBOTANY OF PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOMS, ESPECIALLY PSILOCYBE CUBENSIS" 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS HALLUCINOGENS AND NATIVE AMERICAN SHAMANISM IN MODERN LIFE HOMERO ARIDJIS' MARÍA SABINA IN MEXICO CITY MARTHA SINGER'S, MARIA SABINA'S MISTAKE HONGHI  MEESTER BY NAT FINKELSTEIN ANDREW WEIL: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE HARVARD DRUG SCANDAL ANDREW WEIL: STALKING THE WILD MUSHROOM HIGH IN MEMORY OF STEVEN H. POLLOCK POLLOCK'S A NOVEL EXPERIENCE WITH PANAEOLUS: A CASE STUDY FROM HAWAII POLLOCK'S LIBERTY CAPS: RECREATIONAL HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS POLLOCK'S PSILOCYBIAN MYCETISMUS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PANAEOLUS - NEW POLLOCK'S PSILOCYBIAN MUSHROOM PANDEMIC - NEW JONATHAN OTT AND STEVEN H. POLLOCK INTERVIEW R. GORDON WASSON SHEEP AND MAGIC MUSHROOMS GREEK HISTORIAN ROBERT GRAVES, FIRST MUSHROOM VOYAGE ANGUS MCDONALD'S, ABUSE OF DRUG TERMINOLOGY LA BARRE'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES LA BARRE'S PSYCHEDELICS GALORE LA BARRE'S SHAMANIC ORIGINS OF RELIGION AND MEDICINE PIKE AND COWAN'S, MUSHROOM RITUAL VS. CHRISTIANITY ENTHEOGENS BY JONATHAN OTT RECREATIONAL USE OF MAGIC MUSHROOMS IN MEXICO BY JONATHAN OTT WASHINGTON'S MAGIC MUSHROOMS BY JONATHAN OTT CASTANEDA: FACT OR FICTION R. GORDON WASSON REVIEWS CASTANEDA'S FIRST FOUR BOOKS ROLF SINGER'S MEDICAL MUSHROOMS Return to Main Index