Simon Powell - The Psilocybin Solution

P.O. Box 388

Rochester, VT 05767

1-800-246-8648

www.innertraditions.com

Or contact your local bookseller

Park Street Press

One Park Street

Rochester, Vermont 05767

www.ParkStPress.com

Park Street Press is a division of Inner Traditions International

Copyright © 2011 by Simon G. Powell

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Powell, Simon G.

The psilocybin solution : the role of sacred mushrooms in the quest for meaning / Simon G. Powell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references

Summary: “How psilocybin mushrooms facilitate a direct link to the wisdom of Nature and the meaning of life”—Provided by publisher.

eISBN-13: 978-1-59477-937-4

1. Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic. 2. Psilocybin. 3. Shamanism. 4. Mushroom culture. I. Title.

BF209.H36P69 2011

154.4—dc23

2011019108

To send correspondence to the author of this book, mail a first-class letter to the author c/o Inner Traditions • Bear & Company, One Park Street, Rochester, VT 05767, and we will forward the communication, or contact the author through his website at www.thepsilocybinsolution.com .

www.epubnow.com

www.digitalmediainitiatives.com

“To estimate the number of young recreational and older regular users [of Class A drugs], some division had to be made from these surveys of problematic and non-problematic use. It was assumed therefore that all opiate use and crack use reported in such surveys is problematic; this assumption may be revised in time if better evidence and monitoring data become available. All ecstasy, LSD and magic mushroom use is assumed not to be problematic.” From Godfrey et al.; see endnote.

1. Wasson, Soma : Divine Mushroom of Immortality, 153.

2. Wasson, Mushrooms, Russia and History, 295.

3. Wasson, “Seeking the Magic Mushroom,” 114–17.

1. Wasson, The Wondrous Mushroom, 200.

2. Ibid., 202.

3. Ibid., 206.

4. Ibid., 206–7.

5. Ibid., 73.

6. Sharer, The Ancient Maya, 126.

1. Doblin, “Pahnke’s ‘Good Friday Experiment,’” 14.

2. Ibid., 17.

3. Ibid., 18.

4. Ibid., 19.

5. Ibid., 16.

6. Ibid., 23.

7. Koestler, Drinkers of Infinity, 209.

8. Ibid., 211.

9. Graves, Oxford Addresses on Poetry, 124.

10. Ibid., 127.

11. Huxley, Island, 170.

1. Schultes, Evans, and Hofmann, Plants of the Gods, 112.

2. Lotsof, “Ibogaine in the Treatment of Chemical Dependence Disorders,” www.maps.or­g/news-letter­s/v05n3/0531­6ibo.html(accessed March 11, 2011).

3. Strassman, personal e-mail communication.

4. Pinchbeck, Breaking Open the Head, 240.

5. Nichols, personal e-mail communication.

6. Strassman, personal e-mail communication.

1. Baars, A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness, 148.

2. Nichols, personal e-mail communication.

3. Nichols, personal e-mail communication.

1. Powell, Sacred Ground, 34.

2. Naranjo, “Ayahuasca Imagery and the Therapeutic Property of the Harmala Alkaloids,” 133.

3. McKenna, The Archaic Revival, 60.

4. Hobson, Sleep, 144.

1. Capra, The Tao of Physics, 83.

2. Johnson, Fire in the Mind, 110.

1. Young, The Nature of Information, 43.

2. Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain, 107.

3. Davies, The Mind of God, 118.

4. Gardner, Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements, 240.

5. Davies, The Mind of God, 196.

6. Ibid., 231.

7. McKenna, The Archaic Revival, 246–47.

1. Hoyle, The Intelligent Universe, 222–23.

2. Ibid., 239.

3. Powell, “Darwin’s Unfinished Business.”

4. Einstein, The World as I See It, 28.

1. Teilhard, The Future of Man, 122.

1. Griffiths et al., “Mystical-type Experiences Occasioned by Psilocybin Mediate the Attribution of Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance 14 Months Later,” 621.

2. “CAM Risk Assessment Report Concerning Magic Mushrooms,” 2000, www.erowid.or­g/plants/mushr­ooms/mushro­oms_health­1.pdf(accessed March 11, 2011).

3. Hasler et al., “Acute Psychological and Physiological Effects of Psilocybin.”

4. Godfrey et al., “The Economic and Social Costs of Class A Drug Use in England and Wales, 2000.”