Psilocybe Pickers by Robert DickinsFrom obscure origins, Psilocybe mushrooms quickly and quietly established themselves in local and countercultural Britain. They became a staple rite of passage, folkloric emblem, and mischievous companion in the festival calendar. For over fifty years, these tricksters danced around the law, difficult to capture. Now, twenty years after possession of fresh magic mushrooms was made illegal, Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic

this carefully researched and comprehensive book covers key areas such as tolerance

Alan Piper explores the often forgotten or ignored early histories of psychoactive drugs that helped shape psychedelia

He is the author of Science Revealed and Neuro-Apocalypse

Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Nemu explores savant skills emerging in autism and trans-cranial magnetic stimulation

to navigating the journey and supporting successful integration

and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of mind

meaningful psychedelic journeys

stories his method

and an ear that heard

Foreword by Dr David Luke / Illustrations by Pete Loveday

feverish delirium and other non-rational revelations