The Psilocybin Solution

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160. The Psilocybin Solution
                                  3/Jan/2005

A free online book called The Psiliocybin Solution: Prelude to a
Paradigm Shift by Simon Powell, follows the trail of the modern
rediscovery of psilocybin back to Gordon Wasson's account of his
participation in a Mazatec mushroom rite in 1955,  published in Life
magazine in 1957. Powell then looks at all the evidence that the Aztecs
used psiliocybin mushrooms, including a quote from Duran that "...with
the force of those mushrooms, they would see visions and have
revelations of the future...". Powell goes on to look at the evidence
that the Maya also used psilocybin mushrooms. One of Wasson's
co-workers sent a mushroom sample to Albert Hoffman at Sandoz labs in
1958, and Hofman isolated and named psilocybin. Hofman had already
isolated LSD from the ergot fungus back in the early 1940s, but this
had not yet had any impact on the world.

Timothy Leary went to Mexico in 1960, tried six local entheogenic
mushrooms and had "the most awe-inspiring religious experience of his
life." This was the start of the Harvard Psilocybin Project, and the
inauguration of the psychedelic 1960s, which had a massive impact on
western culture. Powell goes on to discuss Philip K. Dick and Terence
McKenna, Teilhard de Chardin among others, and concludes that the Other
is communicating with us through psilocybin, preparing us for the Omega
Point, which may be in 2012, when "the Other has fully transformed or
reflected itself within the totality of Gaia, then this will represent
the attractor or final stage of the reality process as we know it. At
that point, Nature will have made maximum sense of itself."

Ten chapters with prologue and epilogue - easier to read if converted
to a word file with black print and grey background.

Psilocybin Solution