An Independent Journal Documenting Historical Data Pertaining To The Occurrence And Use Of the Neurotropic Species of Fungi. Featuring Ergot Fungi Claviceps purpurea , Fungi in Alchemy, The Muiscas of Colombia, the Soma Compendium, and much more. "John W. Allen has assembled some very important works on fungi, including some previously unpublished fact-finding data documents such as the 1908 historical timeline on Ergot from which LSD was originally synthesized, and his Compendium Part I on Amanita muscaria . The latter work provides researcher’s, students and scholars alike, with a vast cornucopia of references on the academic and published literature of the history, use, chemistry, and pharmacological actions of Amanita species; as well as historical references of Soma and use of Amanita species in Siberia North America and ancient India, including a never before published paper of a fascinating report on an accidental inebriation of Amanita pantherina that occurred in Italy in 1956. From Colombia, a new hypothesis that suggests that the ancient Prehispanic Man-Bat shaman of the Muiscas of Colombia may have used psilocybian fungi in a cultic manner at the time of the conquest of Nueva España. Additionally, two other papers, one present a suggestion that the sclerotia (or ‘philosopher’s stone) from certain species of dung inhabiting fungi may have been known of by ancient and modern-day alchemists who may have used such sclerotia in potions related to witchcraft and magic for hundreds of centuries. Also presenting a new paper on Mazatec culture and some suggestions on the proper protocol and procedures for using psilocybian fungi as an adjacent to psychotherapeutic treatments on humans in contemporary society in manners similar to those employed by the Mazatec and other indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica as tools used in healing and curing ceremonies.. Over 265 pages, this issue is lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs of several psilocybian species and graphic-designed art and mushroomic montages by John W. Allen. Additional photographs of species by Alan Rockefeller (California), Harry Regin (Germany), Jeremy Bigwood (Washington, D.C.), Arthur Brack and Tjakko Stijve (Switzerland), Michael Engström (Sweden), and George Wong of Oahu, Hawaii. As usual, I highly recommend it to anybody with an interest in entheogenic fungi and other psychoactives. Mr. Allen has done the work and has produced an essential guide for those interested in furthering their studies of the entheogenic fungi."