How to Change Your Mind

biological evolution—that is, selected for changes at the level of the genome. It would have been easier for ...

small pile of amadou hats. “See if one of these fits you.” Most of the mushroom hats were too ...

the mouth of the Columbia—thus far the only place the species has ever been found. Some mycelium will act ...

The mushroom had been growing a stone’s throw from our yurt, right on the edge of a parking spot. Stamet ...

“Temporary paralysis,” he said matter-of-factly. He explained that some people on azzies find they can’t ...

But Beug pointed out that if psilocybin were a defense chemical, “my former student Paul Stamets would have ...

Here we venture out onto highly speculative, slightly squishy ground, guided by an Italian ethnobotanist name ...

“Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they ...

Tucked into the evergreen forest a short walk from his house, the Fungi Perfecti complex consists of a ...

hears nature’s voice, and it is his imagination—wild as it often is—that allows him to see systems where othe ...

Coda You are probably wondering what ever happened to the azzies Stamets and I found that weekend. Man ...

digital buzz of hummingbirds rose to form a cacophony I had never heard before. It began to grate on ...

garden, where we spent so many summers as a couple and then a family, and which at this moment seemed ...

known a tree to be, infused with some kind of spirit—this one, too, benevolent. The idea that there ...

My walk back to the house was, I think, the peak of the experience and comes back to me now in the ...

opening of the heart, toward my parents, yes, and toward Judith, but also, weirdly, toward some of the plan ...

from recognizing them all, our kith and kin. In this sense, I guess Paul Stamets is right to think ...

CHAPTER THREE HISTORY The First Wave WHEN THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIES CAME down hard on Timothy Leary in the mid ...

course LSD. “Whenever you are photographed, smile. Wave reassuringly. Radiate courage. Never complain or ap ...

dedicated but little-known group of scientists, therapists, and passionate amateurs who, long before Leary h ...