DM Turner- The Esseential psychedelic guide

Over 300 mushroom stones have been found throughout Mesoamerica,
some dating as far back as 1000 B.C. The mushroom stone above was
found in the Guatemalan highlands and was one of the first to be
discovered. Photograph reprinted courtesy of Wasson Library, Harvard
Botanical Museum.
INTRODUCTION
"Psychedelics" are substances with the ability to expand human awareness
beyond our normal modes of perception. The family of psychedelics
includes plants, such as psilocybe mushrooms, that have been used in
"shamanistic" settings for thousands of years, as well as recently developed
synthetic compounds, like LSD and ecstasy.
Psychedelics may be the most amazing substances known to humanity.
Some are so potent that just 1/10,000th of a gram can send one on a journey
beyond time and space, beyond life and death. Here the psychedelic voyager
can unlock and experience the collective evolutionary consciousness of
billions of years past and an infinite future. He can transcend the body, the