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Would you care to enlighten us on your purposes for collecting samples?

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Is this part of a research project?

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What is it intended to achieve? You're making me curious!

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The older specimens pileus looks very similar to P.aucklandii.

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Great sneaky shots of the workers too.

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I work w/ some young men from Oaxaca and Chiapas Mexico.

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I wish I had more.  When I woke up a week ago it was saturday morning, pay day.  There were 30 mexicans hanging around the courtyard of the house I was staying in.  There were about ten tables along the side, all covered completely with large clusters of blue staining mushrooms.  The boss man arrived to pay the workers, and he put the big stack of money under a paper that was weighed down with Psilocybe zapotecorum.  The workers lined up and he would look at the balance sheet, then reach under the mushrooms and pull out the correct amount of money.  I didn't want to tip them off to what was happening by taking pictures, but now I wish I had snapped a few.  It may have been the most ironic thing I have ever seen.

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The active Psilocybes appear to be able to fix the destruction that humans cause to the earth.  They do this in two ways.  One way is to eat woody debris in disturbed areas and turn them back into healthy soil again, especially in landslide areas.  The other way is by changing the minds of people who eat them, making them much more aware of the importance of nature and taking good care of the earth.  Is it a coincidence that these mushrooms turn up in disturbed areas?  Its almost like someone planned it this way.  Its also interesting that governments attempt to mitigate the Psilocybe issue mainly by sending people to prison.  What is their role in all of this?

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Almost uncomfortable to think about isn't it.

Amazing thread Alan and wonderful photos. This thread is inspiring me to cook up some oysters outdoors tonight.

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Where the are scaly stemmed derrumbes, there are often brown floccose stemmed derrumbes.

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  Both types are found less than a foot apart. 
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It is interesting that active Psilocybes are extremely rare in nature, and are almost always found near human destruction.  Many times we hike for miles, only to find them growing right next to the car.

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P. aucklandii is also in section Zapotecorum.

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I wish I had more.  When I woke up a week ago it was saturday morning, pay day.  There were 30 mexicans hanging around the courtyard of the house I was staying in.  There were about ten tables along the side, all covered completely with large clusters of blue staining mushrooms.  The boss man arrived to pay the workers, and he put the big stack of money under a paper that was weighed down with Psilocybe zapotecorum.  The workers lined up and he would look at the balance sheet, then reach under the mushrooms and pull out the correct amount of money.  I didn't want to tip them off to what was happening by taking pictures, but now I wish I had snapped a few.  It may have been the most ironic thing I have ever seen.

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Alan Rockefeller said:

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Would you care to enlighten us on your purposes for collecting samples?

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Smaller samples are used for microscopy and larger amounts are used for bioremediation.  It is interesting that active Psilocybes are extremely rare in nature, and are almost always found near human destruction.  Many times we hike for miles, only to find them growing right next to the car. 

The active Psilocybes appear to be able to fix the destruction that humans cause to the earth.  They do this in two ways.  One way is to eat woody debris in disturbed areas and turn them back into healthy soil again, especially in landslide areas.  The other way is by changing the minds of people who eat them, making them much more aware of the importance of nature and taking good care of the earth.  Is it a coincidence that these mushrooms turn up in disturbed areas?  Its almost like someone planned it this way.  Its also interesting that governments attempt to mitigate the Psilocybe issue mainly by sending people to prison.  What is their role in all of this?

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A line of reasoning similar to those of McKenna.

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I'm hesitant to attach meaning to the notion that psychoactive mushrooms appear to grow especially near settlements.

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- People inhabit practically the entire planet and many species therefore as a matter of course have their outposts near our settlements

- The chances of people finding psychoactive mushrooms near settlements is higher than finding them in deserted areas because we simply move about a lot more near our homes

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But they do grow near settlements, they do fix disturbed areas and they do cause people to eat them to be more environmentally conscious.  My theory is based in facts, unlike McKenna's theories. 

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Active Psilocybes really do almost always only grow near human disturbance.  Many long hikes through the middle of nowhere have confirmed this.  Mushroom hunters who only hunt in the woods always say "Psilocybes?  Never seen them."

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