Paul Stamets Describes Bad Trip on Incredibly Dangerous Mushroom

the joggin experience no it's when people pick mushrooms and they go out and pick mushrooms the real issue seems to be that there's some mushrooms that are edible that look very close to mushrooms very similar to mushrooms that are very poisonous true to the uninitiated and the people who have not learned but when you learn to chantrelle you will not mistake it nothing looks like a lion's mane mushroom once you learn lion's mane mushroom it's hard to mistake it so there are some look-alikes and with the Amanita phalloides the destroying angel and with a paddy straw mushroom which is commonly cultivated and collected in asia many of the mushroom deaths in north america have come from not displaced but peoples but people who've come from Asia and because they're secretive in the language barrier and the culture of being wild collectors they then mistake the destroying angel for a paddy straw mushroom that's a real common mistake there are other people who said they just looked edible that's a really dangerous thing to say you have to know species individually right there's a there's edible species of Amanita and there's poisonous ones hmm there's deadly poisonous ones M anita seems to have a lot of controversy as far as its efficacy far as like its psychedelic efficacy what's that that I don't know anybody that's ever really tripped off of it muscaria or Mis yeah oh man do I have a story please oh my god because everybody that I know like and that was something that McKenna talked about as well terrence talked about while he was alive he said that it seems that it's a genetically variable seasonally variable perhaps even environmentally variable all those things are partially true I've eaten mg muscaria four or five times ma'am miss Kerry is the red mushroom with the white dots near tail mushroom is that perfectly legal Santa Paws mushroom it contains a muslima muscarine and E botanic acid actually very little small amounts of muscarine but the muscarinic symptoms cause salivation and sweating and I trip with my friend on on immuno mascara and and I looked at him and he was foaming at the mouth and I had all these bubbles coming out of his mouth I got man dude you look like ya rabies he goes you should see what you look like so but then m/min muscaria I've eaten that a few times and people do boil it in water throw away the water twice and they can make it into a edible mushroom but it's not that great of an edible but there's another mushroom called a madea panther reno Panther arena is a kick-ass mushroom it has five times or more the amounts of moose Somali beaten accosted almost no muss Curran so the salivation effect of an muscaria so I have a had a very good friend we are not friends anymore unfortunately but I was in charge of the herbarium at the Evergreen State College and I freestride em that a panther me know they're called panther cops they're brown in color and they have dots very good the Panther cop perfectly legal mushroom and extraordinarily powerful so I was up living up in Darrington Washington I this cabin I was a logger hippie for a few years and so my friend Dave came up and I had these fries fried mushrooms from the herbarium and I said let's go ahead and eat these and I had read in the literature and almost no one had eaten them so I made an omelet and I and we cooked it up and he was much lighter than me so I thought well I should have 2/3 in the omelet right because he's lighter than me and so we ate the mushrooms run 10 o'clock and we're living in his cabin but across the creek was a scar square Creek Campground and it was the we call him the Winnebago people right back then in the 70s I hitchhiked across country 13 times never Winnebago never picked me up so they were always in the enemy and so we were long-haired hippies you know we date these mushrooms and we thought for entertainment let's go look at the Winnebago people so we went that it was so close I don't know why we drove our car but we drove the car out of my cabin we went down like a half a mile and we turned left into the sparkly campground and a static we parked the car and we wanted to go up to a beautiful view spot and so we walk through the window bago people and their families and everything else and and we get up on to a ridge and I thought this is a great view spot that we're waiting like an hour no effect you know and I was long the Dames oh wow maybe these aren't that potent and then right after we said that I looked out Dave and I said David do you see that yeah and we waited a few more seconds then this big distortion field we had a beautiful view of the volcanoes and the valleys a big view scape but we could see the air with had to become this liquid and then it started coming on stronger and stronger and stronger oh my oh my god this is getting intense we better get the heck out of here go go home where it's safe because this is coming on so strong so we come down off this little this little plateau and we had to come down through the Winnebago people and then we'll my god and here we're walking a thing about am bonitas and mascara got pants arena you have doll yellows and browns but you feel like this giant and you're moving a slow motion every step you're taking you know you feel like this giant bay moving really slow and and then I came to Winnebagos of no end there were hundreds of feet long I'm trying to water passes but obey go and like when is this Winnebago when I end I keep on walking further and further and then oh my god and so then we're really just really really high it was ridiculous I had a really flex camera and we came up to a car and so for some friggin reason I locked the car and so I had my key I had looked at my key and I look at the lock I went missed oh okay pull the key back missed Dave goes you okay I go I'm fine he goes do you want me to drive and I go no way dude if I'm just high there's no way I want you to drive right and so I then over and over again then magically just for a repetition it just made it into the lock so I unlock the door and I get into the car and I dropped my camera and then I'm in the car and I'm trying to get my Ian thank God I didn't get my key and I was not safe to drive and then Dave is going like oh my god Paul are so friggin high right now and I go and I said well let's go home I said I dropped my camera and I went over looked like round there was my camera I picked it up I'm going Wow Dave I dropped my camera dropped my camera again oh ah Dave's I brought my camera pick up my camera go whoa I dropped my camera did this over and over and over again repetitive motion syndrome kicked in it is a very common symptom of a matted Panther arena I dropped my camera dozens and dozens of times how'd it look at the end well it was shattered but Dave goes Paul you should look up and a whole bunch of people from the Winnebago family community had lined up holding their children in close proximity watching this repetitive motion syndrome where I'm just constantly picking my camera so they're watching you for entertainment where you went to watch them and for entertainment and now they're freaking out because I have this repetitive motion syndrome and I take one step a trot my camera Wow Dave I dropped my camera and I pick up my camera again I know that I just brought my camera whoa it dropped my camera again now this speaks to the berserkers and the berserkers the word berserk came for the berserkers and in Scandinavia where the legend has it that there were these these the Scandinavians the Vikings were surrounded and outnumbered and there were going to be killed the next day and they ate a whole bunch of Amanita muscaria and a big big soup and legend has it it's not been confirmed but this is the legend that's very commonly reiterated is that they drank a whole bunch ending in muscaria soup and then they went and the next day even though they're massively outnumbered they took off all their clothes and they attack the enemy naked the swords and that's where the word berserk came from the berserkers so I'm having this Berserker experience a repetitive motion syndrome and I dropped my camera over and over and over again and and I looked up and these parents were holding their children totally freaking out you know I said we got to get out of here so we left the doors open on the car and I'm taking one or two steps dropping my camera picking it up dropping my camera we finally made it back he he disappeared I didn't know if the Dave you're on your own on dude I have enough to worry about no I made it back to my cabin and I get to my cabin and there's a combination lock oh no I don't need a combination lock right now I can't barely you know it's I'm spinning lock back and forth spinning back and then eventually the lock just spontaneously opened and and then I fell on the ground and I started convulsing and the cool thing about convulsing was it felt good every time I convulsed I actually went I feel so good so it convulsed some more and I was just convulsing constantly like epileptic conducted convulsions very very intense but they felt good this is the weird thing about it I needed to convulse because every time I convulse I kind of got a reset of my neurology you know I'm a baseline and then I would spin out of control and then I had this cascade of ice thin ice Tinian thoughts I got oh my god I can save the world I know how to do this and they don't have a prepositional or in verbal phrase and just before I came to the object of my thought that was Einstein II and insight how to have a tension and then I've come to the course at the end of that sentence and then I have another tangent I saw death as if as a perpetual series of alternatives that never gave me the satisfaction of a conclusive thought and thought I was just lasted for about 12 hours you know I fainted I went into a coma like state so you recommend it and the biggest concern beside the repetitive motion syndrome is hypothermia because if you're out in the woods or something and you're exposed you're not getting up so you're you going it's called soma for a reason it's the soma mushroom it's some differences that what's ohm is this is there some debate as to what so Ashley is that's what our Gordon Watson proposed some genetic literature there's a big debate about that but the other story I'd like to tell is my friend dr. Andrew Weil was at the Cougar Hot Springs and an Oregon and Andy's a medical doctor from Harvard and he was walking the trail and people came running down to oh my god this guy's trying kill himself you gotta come up and Andy went up and this guy had eaten a whole bunch of Andy muscaria big biker dude and it's covered with blood and he was up on a bridge and he was swinging his legs back and forth is above the rocks they threw himself off the bridge now it was only about 6 or 8 feet but it's enough onto the boulders down below smash himself on the rocks and then he climbed back up on the bridge and they swung his feet and threw himself off the bridge so this this causes repetitive motion syndrome both of my camera acceptance is a mushroom that's perfectly legal as probably one of the most dangerous mushrooms that anyone could eat I definitely advise not doing this because I always thought if I always ever called his expert witness having these experiences and someone who was watching Tales from the Crypt on TV and then they saw a knife it causes temporary insanity I mean it's suicide mushrooms are wonderful they're peaceful they're loving as an empathic oh right but the Amanita mushrooms cause this strange strange sort of behavior that is really potentially dangerous [Applause]

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Length: 12min 23sec (743 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 15 2019

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[u/taytayssmaysmay]

This is the kind of truth regarding potential negative outcomes peoplw must be aware of to avoid hurting themselves and or more importantly others.

Please be careful out there everyone. Be as responsible as possible and dont over due it.