What is the history of magic mushrooms? What is the history of tripping?

Mushrooms have a place in ancient human history, but they have only become popular again in Western society for about fifty years.  Shrooms became very popular among Western trippers in the 1970's.

These links are from Erowid's Mushroom History Section.

Mushroom History

Taken from Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms

• by Paul Stamets:
• A work not centered on Psychoactives but in order to have the most complete compendium of mycological knowledge included a little chapter.

Wassons First Voyage The Rediscovery of Entheogenic Mushrooms From Mushroom Pioneers

• by John Allen

• by John Allen