Hi everyone.

Can anyone tell me if this is a magic mushroom. I found it on my backyard. We have a pig as a pet and she eats absolutely everything but did not go near the mushroom. is it edible, is it a magic mushroom?

Thanks!

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Just did Lemon Tek with 5 g's of APE Thrasher mushrooms! Let's see if all the hype is true! First time with APE mushrooms. Hope everyone has a great night!🍄❤️🍄❤️🍄❤️

I’m new to reddit and mushrooms but have found your post quite intriguing. I’m looking to start growing shrooms but would like a bit of insight if you guys could provide any thanks!

Sincerely: tooCooked :)

I’ve thought for a while about starting a mushroom church, in hopes that this sacrament I hold so dear could be legally protected instead of persecuted. But I feel like the spirituality of the mushroom doesn’t lend itself to boxes and classification the way other faiths might. How would you define the church? What are the quintessential elements?

This story begins a very long time ago when we were all carnivorous monkeys roaming the plains of Africa. One thing a hunter uses to find pray is their droppings. What grows out of their droppings in Africa happens to be Magic Mushrooms. There's no way to prove it, but the likely hood that these monkeys came across these mushrooms, not once or twice but hundreds of thousands of times, is also impossible to disprove. Now, if you are a hungry monkey and you find these tasty looking mushrooms, what would you do? Probably try one. When you eat a small amount of Magic Mushrooms, you notice a few things, mainly enhanced vision and hearing. This would be a significant advantage to any hunter. You now see every leaf that moves, every plant you might want to eat, and hear every sound an animal could make. Now when you eat a bunch of these mushrooms, you see some crazy shit. As a monkey who has just seen god, you would be compelled to try to explain what you saw to another monkey.

Simply put, the "Religious Evolution" theory says that Magic Mushrooms were the reason for the evolution of both human communication and the concept of religion itself. Monkeys trying to explain god to each other.

On a scientific level, Magic Mushrooms also help build new neural pathways in the brain. One could say that Psilocybin makes you smarter.

The pioneer of this theory was Terence Mckenna. Although I have an amazing amount of respect for him, I think he did a few disservices to his own theory:

1. I prefer to call it the "religious evolution" vs "stoned ape" theory. "Stoned ape" makes it sound too comical. One of the comments I got from a family member when I was talking about the theory and the church I run was, "well, I could see how that makes sense IF you believe in evolution.". Got me to realize our church is for people who believe in evolution...
2. How would a "stoned ape" weigh out 5g of dried mushrooms and do them in "silent darkness." What I think is more likely is an ape ate a lot more than 5g and saw god standing next to him in the grass.
3. Implying that "sex" and reproduction factored into the theory. After shitting my bed on 20g of mushrooms, I personally don't feel "sex" needs to be part of it for this to be a very valid theory.

A place to discuss the religious use, growing, hunting, and experience of Magic Mushrooms.