Created July 24, 2007 and Revised August 29, 2007, September 13, 30, 2008, February 24, 2009 and December 2, 2009.
Copyright 1999-2009 by John W. Allen


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ETHNOMYCOLOGICAL JOURNALS: SACRED MUSHROOM STUDIES VOL. VIII




TALES OF THE SHROOMS: THE WRITTEN WORD
NEW"The Occurrence, Recreational Use, Cultivation, and Chemistry of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata, a new Bluing Species (Agaricales) from Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia."

NEW"The Occurrence, Use and Detection of Psilocine, Psilocybine and Baeocystine in Psilocybe villarrealiae from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico



Mushroom John's Tales of the Shrooms
Presents
Online Articles by John W. Allen with color images instead of journal's black and white images.




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.
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).
The Poems and Songs of John W. Allen.
Mighty The Squirrel Meets the Beables
A Biography and Bibliography of John W. Allen aka Mushroom John






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 1995.


 

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

 

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 basedon Wade Davis' One River biography of Dr. Schultes that was written by Wade Davis for the magazine known as the Shaman's Drum.

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RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES
was the first to publish in English, the historical data from the Spanish Conquest, followed by a lengthy paper by Rolf Singer, and Dr. Schultes’ papers 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 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 (Coming Soon)

POLLOCK'S PSILOCYBIAN MUSHROOM PANDEMIC (Coming Soon)

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




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