Flying with Amanita

FLYING WITH AMANITA

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As you have seen on the title in this article, we will start talking about something called Amanita, more specifically Amanita Muscaria, as known by its latin name. Commonly known as Fly Amanita this white dotted red capped mushroom is very well known by its looks in pop culture, being used by gnomes and intrepid hippies among many others. It grows in a great variety of places such as Eurasia, Australia, North and South America and even places like South Africa, where atleast I wouldn't expect this funny looking fungi to grow. It surely is known as venomous but deadly cases of intoxication with Fly Amanita are extremely rare, which opens a new world of possibilities for the psychonaut community and various religions, most of them extinct. It opens a world of possibilities since it carries two known psychoactive compounds: Ibotenic acid and muscimol, liable for the so called magic or divine effects (or maybe just some really complex chemical rections in the brain) that the mushroom carries within. 

There are many curious stories about this mushy, for example shamans of various tribes such as the Sami from Northern Sweden had their shamans eat the mushies, then pee' em out and pass the urine to drink to their followers. That's done this way (still is) because the urine contains five times more muscimol than what the normal ingestion of the unaltered product can process, here we would have to get into really long words to explain this such as decarboxylation and other malarchy so lets just stop it right here. These shamans from Siberia and the Arctic might have learned this method of urine drinking from the reindeers, who actually do lick the pee of their counterparts who have eaten the Muscaria to get trippy. Nature is indeed a wise teacher. But, lets stop a moment, reindeers? red and white? who do we know has these as attributes? It's frickin' Santa! So yeah, there's a very solid chance that the tradition of Santa Claus comes from the shamans who dried the fungi by hanging them from trees just like ornaments on a Christmas tree, then put them inside a big pitless bag and gave them to the people around for them to have a euphoria filled experience in the dark, cold winter days. So now you can tell your friends, family and co-workers that the archetypal image of Santa dressed with red and white clothes, carrying a bag full of presents, and with seven flying reindeers pulling his magic sledge comes from a way more bizarre tradition filled with animal AND human pee than they would have ever thought!

Now it's time for the actual magic and maybe the reason you clicked this, you somehow acquired some Amanita Muscaria and you intend to go on a trip with it, well the firstly you will have to boil the caps in a lot of water for 15 minutes approximately to get rid of the toxins, then if you are feeling gourmet you could sauté them in some olive oil or butter, add some salt and voilà, you get a dish a lot of people claim to enjoy a lot. Now it's time for dosage: 1-3 grams is a low dose, 4-7 a moderate dose, 7-14 a high dose and 14+ extreme dose which is not recommended both for amateur and experienced psychonauts since it can be a delirant. So you know, start low and if you find yourself comfortable scalate slowly to see if you can meet some psychedelic entities. Psicodelika is only for information and harm reduction purposes so we are not to be taken liable from any negative side effects from the consumption of any drug, better stay away from them, but if you don't... well here we are!