Comments on: Mushrooms

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:13:58 +0000

Hi Roland – Thanks for the comment. Mushrooms were and are used for religious/medicinal purposes by several different native peoples in Mesoamerica, as well as by a wide range of northern and Siberian peoples in Eurasia.

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:32:21 +0000

Rob, maybe mackenna has some sort of right on that one :)
Magic mushrooms were used in the ancient times by maias to treat some diseases and for higher elevation in relegion.

Beautiful photos dave.

By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » The path that was never ment to be tooken

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:38:57 +0000

[…] Yesterday, my post on mushrooms from last July received this delightful comment from Anonymous: Shrooms are the best shit u can have. Thanks to them I am able to see the future and know what lies a head. I have seen humanity rise and fall many times but in the end it does not matter for what reasons that we face now and things that we ignore will haunt us for our lives, for there will be consequences for every action done or word said. There is no hope but only hell to come all to have fallen victims to the ways of the path that was never ment to be tooken, those that sleep for eternity will once rise and except whats coming to them for they know but did not act, all is well that ends well, for those that ment good. […]

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:34:24 +0000

We live in the present, not in the future. I’ve been waiting for the future for almost 41 years now, and it has yet to arrive. As for shrooms, things seen under the influence of one substance are no more reliable than things seen under the influence of any other substance (food, sleep, whatever), though sometimes they’re damned amusing.

Thanks for the comment though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:58:38 +0000

Shrooms are the best shit u can have. Thanks to them I am able to see the future and know what lies a head. I have seen humanity rise and fall many times but in the end it does not matter for what reasons that we face now and things that we ignore will haunt us for our lives, for there will be consequences for every action done or word said. There is no hope but only hell to come all to have fallen victims to the ways of the path that was never ment to be tooken, those that sleep for eternity will once rise and except whats coming to them for they know but did not act, all is well that ends well, for those that ment good.

By: Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Foxfire

Via Negativa » Blog Archive » Foxfire — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:19:02 +0000

[…] We temporarily interrupt our series of masks to bring you another report on the strange goings-on in the fungal kingdom. […]

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:51:20 +0000

Well, it’s never to late to learn. There are a few mushrooms that are a) delicious and b) difficult to confuse with anything deadly, and those are the ones i pick: giant puffballs, morels (when i can find them – not often), chicken mushrooms (a.k.a. sulfur shelf), oyster mushrooms, chanterelles.

By: leslee

leslee — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:06:18 +0000

Hm, those latter ones, to paraphrase the line from the bar pianist… ‘the camera has been eating mushrooms, not me.’

My dad was just telling me the other day about picking mushrooms with his father and brother when he was a kid. His father is native Polish, his mother Polish and Lithuanian. Too bad I never learned.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:26:41 +0000

Oh. Well, I’m definitely down with that! Sounds like you had a great time.

By: mb

mb — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:01:31 +0000

Dave, adrenalin isn’t necessary or, from my point of view, desirable. It wasn’t a part of my recent experience. What I’m talking about is being suffused with beauty and appreciation, at a level that makes you aware of being a true part. (And I wish my government valued this also.)