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Acknowledgments
I am particularly grateful to Claudia Taake. Without her translation, her technical support and
our stimulating, creative discussions, the publication of this book in its present form would not have been
possible.
I want to thank Scott Bradbury for his contribution of original artwork on both covers and on
page 1, and for assisting with cover design and layout.
I am grateful to several individuals who introduced me to mycology; special thanks are due
those who have provided me with a number of extremely rare mushroom samples for my research. I am
most grateful to Gerhard Drewitz of Caputh (Berlin) for his helpful observations on the taxonomy and
toxicology of the Inocybe species. For more than 10 years, he has furnished me with rare mushroom
specimens for chemical analyses. I am thankful for our many joint excursions into the world of
mushrooms.
Gerd K. Muller (Leipzig, Germany) has deepened my understanding of the mushrooms's purpose
and position in the natural world. It was our collaboration at the University of Leipzig, and an
opportunity to deposit mushroom material at the Leipzig Herbarium that resulted in the discovery of new
frontiers in mycological research.
For contributing valuable data on natural products chemistry, taxonomy and medical
applications for psychedelics, I am indebted to the late Marta Semerdzieva, who died in 1994, as well as
to Milan Hausner and Josef Herink in the Czech Republic. I cherish the memories of our collaboration
and our joint field research expeditions.
I want to thank John W. Allen (Hawaii) for generously sharing many photographs and his expert
knowledge of the mycofloras in North America, Hawaii and Asia. I sincerely wish to thank my friends in
Switzerland, Rita C. Zengaffmen and Udo Kinzel, for all their contributions. I want to thank Michael W.
Smith (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) for our collaborative field research in South Africa in January,
1994. I am grateful to Paul Stamets (Olympia, WA) for his contribution of mushroom photographs. For
their expertise and for providing valuable information I also wish to thank Albert Hofmann, who
discovered psilocybin and psilocin (Burg, Switzerland); as well as Jonathan Ott (Xalapa, Mexico);
Hanscarl Leuner (Gottingen, Germany); Christian Ratsch (Hamburg, Germany); Alexander T. Shulgin
(Lafayette, CA); and Giorgio Samorini (Bologna, Italy).
Finally, my heartfelt gratitude goes to Irmgard Richter, for her years of support and for enduring
my unbridled mycophilia.
LIS Publications wishes to thank the following individuals and businesses who have helped make this book
possible: Brad Falk, Scott Bradbury, Angelica Biddle, Ronda Flanzbaum, Tim Matthews, David Cronk, Kerstin
Taake, FS Books, Knockabout Comics, Mind Books and Rosetta Books.