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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Online Articles by John W. Allen




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ETHNOMYCOLOGICAL JOURNALS: SACRED MUSHROOM STUDIES VOL. VIII




TALES OF THE SHROOMS: THE WRITTEN WORD

Abstract of Lecture at Southeast Asian Conference, Hua Hin, Thailand, 1998
My Review of Arik Moonhawk Roper's, "A Visionary Guide To Mushroom Magick."
A Review of Andy Letcher's book, Shrooms: A Cultural Historywith a response by Dr. Letcher and two more reviews y Jan Irvin and Tjakko Stijve.
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.
The Ascent and Spread of Psilocybian Consciousness (with James Arthur).
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


EXTERNAL LINKS TO FIELD GUIDES BY JOHN W. ALLEN

Safe-Pik Mushroom Identification Guide.
Magic Mushrooms of Australia and New Zealand.

Magazine Articles from Various Publications.

Articles that Mention John W. Allen in Journals and Other Publications.


 
NEW-NEW-NEW-NOT ALL POSTED IN THIS BOX YET-TALES OF THE SHROOMS_NEW_NEW_NEW
Presents

A Collection of Scholarly Articles Related to the Study of Magic Mushrooms



Anthropological and Cultural Scholarly Historical Mushroom Data for Amateurs, Students and Scholars Alike.


Created April 16, 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.


  16-new, rare, and hard to find scholarly articles featuring in-depth historical tales of the Olmecs, Toltecs and the Aztecs, presented by the most honorable ethnobotanist in the world, the late Dr. Richard Evans Schultes of Harvard University, a hero to many ethnonobotanical and neurotropic plant enthusiasts admired his courage and appreciated the qualities of who spent more then 14-years, living and traveling alone, alongmany unexploredregioonsof the Amazon River, whose lifetinme research earned him the famed distinguished Distinguished Honorary Title as "The Father of Ethobotany. Included in this section of scholarly papers by others are two distinguished articles by the late Dr. Rolf Singer of the Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, and a suggestion that the sacred Mushrooms might possibly be used medicinally as adjacents to psychiatric treatment and a short history of their recreational and ludible use in contemporary Western Civilization. Additionally, interesring historical works include two biographies of Dick Schultes by an editor of the New Yorker Magazine and a short Biography by Wade Davis and 2 short obituaries concerning the death of Dr. Richard Eveans Schultes.

MISCELLANEOUS SHROOM ARTICLES FROM THE LITERATURE by Richard Evans Schultes, Rolf Singer, Wade Davis,William Emboden and other new friends of Dr. Richard Evans Schultes.

RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES: Presenting his revelations concerning the true historical facts of the sacred mushrooms as used by the Olmecs, Toltecs, Aztecs and possibly the Mayan as originally transcribed and translated by the scholarly Spanish Historians such as BERNARDO DE SAHAGÚN, BOTNANISTS, CHRONICLERS, FRANCISCAN MONKS (Diego Duran), AND DOMINICAN FRIARS, all who worked at translating the Nahuautl speaking tribal groups languages into Mazateca and then into Spanish and eventually from Spanish into English.


John Allen's, "MODERN SCHOLARLY RESEARCH (1900-1938)."John W. Allen's English interpretation of the translations of the early writings and studies of the works of Wlliam E. Safford, Blas Pablo Reko, The Weitlaners, Jean Bassett John Bassett Johnson and other anthropologists, and independant researchers of New World Botanics of the 1930s.

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).

[Book Cover]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).
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

ARTICLES BELOW ARE POSTED<
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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