Field of Dreams - Liberty Caps

[null24]

Nice find chronic, good pics too:thumb_up:

Making me hope my azurescens fruit this year

Are you cultivating azzies? Or just talking about Ft Stevens?

 

[Swarupa]

2.37% to 0.98% seems to be a high fluctuation to keep in mind while dosing up for p.semilanceata-mushi-trip.

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I've actually found them quite reliable although the first few flushes can seem a little stronger, also sometimes liberty caps that grow in well kept short grass can be a little more potent than the larger field mushrooms weight for weight.

 

[greenmoss]

The earliest evidence of any use in the UK was in the late 17th century and that was accidental, it seems not many people knew about them until almost 200 years later when Albert Hofmann analyzed liberty caps and identified the first European psilocybe.

I find it really strange there isn't any artifacts related to liberty caps, they seem so befitting to celtic culture but there's no evidence of any use, apart from maybe the folklore. I think either there was a mass cover up by crusaders or maybe they are even a fairly recent introduction into the ecosystem, i can't see how we've lived alongside these things for thousands of years and only discovered them recently.

Check this out,
Fungi Liberty Caps data ,

This fungi was widely used by the ancient Druids of Ireland. It was used in the potion taken by the Celtic warriors before they went into battle. It was also used in all astral projection spells. In the sweat houses to help communicate with the Earth and Universe or the Otherworld.

 

[greenmoss]

and this (crtl+f search for mushrooms)

irish megaliths

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www.irishmegaliths.org.uk

There is a great deal of literature on the effect and use of various kinds of mushroom (Psilocybe spp. and Fly Agaric). The appearance of the formerly ubiquitous "magic mushroom", Psilocybe semilanceata, fits rather well with descriptions of pixies, leprechauns and other 'little green men'.

A more gross mushroom-spirit is the modern Santa Claus, dressed in the colours of Fly Agaric, associated with reindeer (from whose urine the unmetabolised but detoxified active constituent was drunk bv the shamans of sub-arctic reindeer-herdsmen, who enters down a chimney and brings gifts.

The entrance to many circumpolar dwellings is also the smoke-hole, as in Irish sweathouses. In our culture of acquisition the gifts are meaningless objects of desire rather than real numinous Gifts, and the shaman figure (who degenerated to Father Frost in Westernised Russia and Scandinavia) coalesced with St Nicholas, the Three Magi and the ancient gift-tradition of Saturnalia.

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Are Irish sweathouses a continuation of a prehistoric tradition of inhaling consciousness-altering smoke, recently overlaid with the prophylactic function of saunas ?
Cannabis is not likely to have been used in Ireland for a millennium at least, but a much more seriously-numinous means of widening the awareness is still to be found all over the island: Psilocybe semilanceata, or "magic mushrooms"....

irish megaliths

megaliths, tombs, dolmens, passage-tombs, petroglyphs, rock scribings, rock art, standing-stones, prehistoric, wedge-tombs, portal-tombs, sweathouses, court-tombs, stone circles, megalithes irlandais

www.irishmegaliths.org.uk

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Certainly the combination of sweat, sensory deprivation (as John Lilly described with Ketamineand, perhaps, a mushroom drink connected with some significance relating to the time of the year or a Samhain cult of the dead could provide potent visions for all practising it. But as to the true purpose, who knows!

http://www.druidicdawn.org/node/2288

 

[Swarupa]

Thanks for the info greenmoss, the folklore of Celtic culture seems so befitting to liberty caps for sure. Given that psilocybin works so well with sensory deprivation and can make people more sensitive to the cold it actually makes sense that it may have been combined with these kind of steam sweats.

This fungi is known for its 'Breast or Tit' like shape. The mushroom has a crooked stem with a cone shaped cap, with a nipple in the middle.

They do look like little breasts growing out the ground, and since we're trained from birth to seek the nipple i'm sure they're eye catching enough to people passing by and have been used by humans for a long time before that recorded accidental dosing in the 17th century, it's just strange that there are no recorded reports from before then and all we have is speculation, no liberty cap drawings, carvings, stained glass windows etc... the mushroom deserves a temple or two!

Although there is this one very interesting potential example of an artifact recording liberty cap shapes, the mysterious phaistos disc, believed by some to be the first ever printed script. Stoned ape theory?