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.


 
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-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.

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, from the Nahuautl speaking tribal groups into Mazatec and then into Spanish and eventually into English.


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).

[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).

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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