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Rickster wrote:
BTW, how about inoculating these cardboard weed shields with edible fungi? Soooo many benefits to fungi, ranging from protein to useful enzymes... I've been experimenting with inoculating piles of wood chips (pines, D.-fir, etc.) but haven't had much luck, for various reasons (off topic).
rose macaskie wrote:
hi Jeremy bunag. Delved too deep sounds ominous. This hippy, Stamets, at the same time as sitting in his lab looking at slides as any good, what is here called a "freaky" with Spanish accent frikki, nerd, weirdo, type, with strange hobbies could be expected to do, also was a magic mushroom freak, is perhaps still and was a self proclaimed magic mushroom freak, a really bad example for the young as a successfull magic mushroom freak, as is doctor House as a successfully highly drugged doctor, still, that is probably the first thing many people hear of him, so the bad news can be gathered without reading much, all the green part of his writtings are what you have to delve deep into his books to obtain.
He is also proof that you never know what wont turn out to be really usefull to the world. A liberal, none totalitarian, type way of thinking, from me, someone educated soon-ish after the war with Hitler, in an epoch when the world was full of people groaning under totalitarian tyrants so that we sat and feared that the fate of so many might one day be ours. Of the unfortunate soviet population and the unfortunate populations lead by such as Fransisco Franco in Spain and the Generals in Greece and Argentina and such or Pinochet. So present were the examples of what happened to people who lived under tyrants that this present epoch, that seems very given to monitoring others, driven by fear of the terrible effects of drugs and by the ideas of institutions like a the AA, has crept up, on me at least, unnoticed. The right in America seem to feel free to claim a right to impose on others in a more open way than they might have dared do before, for example, i don't want to offend anyone from the right but that is my observation. The right here too has taken to more senorial behaviors, those of imposing or tricking the population into agreeing with them instead of convincing them in a more open way . In classist systems those at the top seem to think they know best and should not have to give full explanations to their inferiors, who would not know how to sift complicated information. So do top dog communists.
I suppose that people who decide to eat magic mushrooms can find out how to do so anyway and this is not his magic mushroom book. It is full of usefull information for your ecology freak such as me.
It seems that Chris Chaison, who is on this forum, four away from this post of mine, maybe sells mushrooms that help regenerate the soil from his east coast lab. Maybe it would be better to get stuff off him, Paul Stamets must have a really good business for himself already. Maybe Chris Chanson is Paul Stamets in mufti. agri rose macaskie.
rose macaskie wrote:
` Jeremy Bunag, I have just been thinking a bit more about Paul Stamets who is so addicted to talking of how great getting high on mushrooms is at the same time as giving lot of information on completely different things. It may be as well not to order this book for schools. My thought on the same in universities are a bit more complex, after all you are educating doctors, lawyers and sociologists, chemists and others who will hold responsable posts who have to make drugs and understand drug consumption so all information on drugs should be around to help them deal with people who are drugged, for example. As squeamish as we may feel about risking students at such young ages as those at university. Starting to prohibit books in a university setting is closing the door after the horse has got out if they have to learn chemistry. I don't suppose the people on this blog are university students age, i find it hard to imagine there are any very very young contributers and so like chemists we who are not absolutely young have to take our chances with dangerous topics-
Women did not used to know anything very complicated abut sex, like about homosexuals for example but it was considered necessary for boys to understand such things, who might become politicians and make laws on them or doctors or whatever. I don't want to be ignorant because i am being protected like a fool and because it cannot be expected that i will ever hold such an important post as to get to have a strong negative or positive influence on others such as drug addicts, so i will take the risk and read Stamets.
I was young when my parents started warning us that people would say things to make us try drugs like, you can never be a good artist if you don't try drugs and they pointed out the disaster cases, those who had really been hard hit by drugs. I was pretty scared of drugs, which didn't stop me going in for a bit of heavy drinking when i was young, a drug that my parents did not disapprove of and a pretty strong drug it seems to me.
I don't see how and adult, ecologically concerned, person, can go without reading this book, much as Stamets praises drugs. This is just not a safe world, so at what age do you let the children into the jungle.
I have just been writting about the opus dei, catholic, sect like, organisation, and they or their supporters say, as a way of pretending that i should not criticise them, that if the world is enriched by many things why not with them too. The answer is OK, but just as you can carry your message, i can talk against you.
When people want to leave their organisation, the people in charge procrastinate saying just wait another week, that way the years can drag by and those who want to leave stay there waiting for the right moment and at the same time they drug them when they talk of leaving, the pretext seems to be they must be mad or they would not want to leave and the mad need drugs so, their they employ drugs, negative suggestion, calling them mad and procrastination. I have heard they induce nervous break downs to make catching people easier and have a high rate of suicides. I read the, anti opus Dei site "odan" and "opus libros" to try and understand the catholics i meet here, who seem to try to indoctrinate me without really coming right out about it. They are frightening, they try to bully you with a lot of conversations full o f insinuations and fake miracles. agri rose macaskie.
