A Totally Weird "Magic Mushroom" That No One Seems To Know Anything About... Is It Real? (TMS EP 18) 

Psilocybin saved my life. My neighbor saw me walking into the woods with a gun in my hand, and saw the note pinned to my front door and came crashing into the woods screaming for me to wait. He sat with me and cried with me for hours. Once he finally talked me down he told me to come with him. When I walked into his house, for the first time, it was like walking into Wonderland or Oz! Brightly colored fractal patterns all over the walls, tie dye EVERYWHERE, and posters of various 60s-80s bands. He asked me if I was ready to give life another chance if he could help me make the pain go away. I told him I doubted he could, but I would try. He put on a Pink Floyd vinyl, gave me 5-6 giant capsules of a bluish gray substance, and loaded up a device that looked similar to a crack pipe, and told me to swallow the capsules, all at once. He then told me I had just eaten magic mushrooms and to let him know when I felt them. About 25 minutes later they started working. This is when the “crackpipe” came into the picture, and HOLY SHIT!! He loaded up a orangish yellow crumbly powder, and told me n”don’t be scared, but you are about to meet my friends, and they will help you.” Which sounded freaking stupid, but I hit the pipe when he lit it. Two hits later I was GONE! with the psilocybin and DMT working together I got blasted to a completely different…. Place? Realm? I don’t know where o went, but the beings I spoke to were absolutely clear that I was no longer on Earth. I was no longer in my body. I was told I was spiritually sick and I needed to be cleaned. I spent HUNDREDS of years in this place. I met thousands of these entities, and even took on a job. In that place I was made to meditate nearly constantly. At first they guided me, but eventually made me do it on my own. After hundreds of years of this the leader of the entities who called themself “Mother” told me that I had been cleansed and healed and it was time to go home. I didn’t want to go back and began to resist. Mother gave me a push and shouted “GO!” so loudly that I thought it would tear me apart. When I came back, I found myself lying on the floor. Only about 30 minutes has passed, and I was still in the middle of a full-blown magic mushroom trip. It was the most beautiful and amazing experience of my life, and at times the most terrifying. but after that day, I never took another antidepressant, another anti-anxiety pill, and I’ve never had to go back to therapy. To this day, I still microdose three times a week.. my relationship with myself and those around me is MUCH healthier. For the first time in my life, I’m happy. All because the hippy next door had a bad feeling. Thanks Phil. I love you man

Psychedelics dissolved 10years of my depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts in 10 minutes for me. When I opened my eyes I came back as a different me. All trauma has been dissolved before my very eyes. I understood what love and understanding truly meant and 9 months on, I've never experienced any of the depression and anxiety that plagued my existence beforehand. I saw every path that everyone had ever taken and why. It is the most profound experience of my life. Just my experience.

The use of magic mushrooms can completely help one get over addiction and depression. but there’s a big risk if you eat the wrong type

Psilocybin, ketamine, DMT and LSD are just amazing. Psilocybin mushrooms treatment actually saved my life from depression and excessive alcohol use. Never had a bad trip.

I guess I just want somewhere to share my story. When I was 19 I took shrooms, and it was like I was turned inside out. As a child, I was very extroverted and loved being around people. And after the shrooms, I felt disconnected from everyone and everything around me. I just wanted to alone. I am learning to feel happiness from within myself, not running from myself. It's been a LONG and PAINFUL process but once it's healed, it's healed and beautiful.

I think it is so weird that people have similar trips and see the same things when they trip on certain psychedelics.

I’ve always wondered how many bugs, fungi and plants that can be psychoactive to us; we just haven’t found or realized it.

I'm from Norway. I have read about boletus varieties with psychoactive properties in a little book in Danish, (which I can read, but don't talk) about "hallucinogenic"/psychoactive plants, mushrooms and even a few fish and toad species. It's written by a man (former teacher) known as Sten Larris back in the late 1970s - early 80s, and the title was in direct translation Hallucinogenology: "Forbidding Hallucinogens? - Forbid Nature to Grow!" I'm on vacation in the North of the country, so I don't have access to the book until I'm back where I'm living. I have not found this type of boleti, but they aren't as common as Amanita muscaria and panterina. (Or "Liberty caps"). He also reported that smoking Hypholoma fasciculare and also a related specie, gave a sort of trip. But it is definitely toxic to eat, according to Wikipedia sources. It's possible to send you a copy of the interesting parts and references if you have any e-mail or whatever way to communicate on the web.

While mushrooms may fruit cyclically, and amanita muscaria may be on a 7-year cycle, other mushrooms may be on different cycles. Mycology is such a fascinating and growing field! The things we still don't know...

This sounds like the origin story for the Smurf’s, little people, blue mushrooms… that’s awesome

Honestly my major cyclical, episodic depression (MDD) vanished the day I had the magic mushroom tripping while listening to the birds singing in the early morning, up at the cottage country in Muskoka (Ontario, Canada) .... Literally changed my life

I started my mushroom journey off the back of a bumper year of mushrooms and particularly in finding a huge yield of Amanita Muscaria a couple years back and finding out it can be (if you're careful and safe) used to give anxiety relief and some of the deepest and best sleep I've ever had in my adult life. Anyway, every year I've checked back and while I've found a couple other smaller areas fruiting since that same spot has been dormant. If I'm still around in 7 years and this channel is still going I'll add to the anecdotal evidence. There're definitely bumper years for certain mushrooms and I know there's at least one mushroom with a studied 21 year cycle (which points towards your 7 years being accurate) so I suspect you're right. Maybe a topic for a video or a project idea for an anecdotal data collection website- like plantnet for mushrooms where we can collectively document and figure out mushroom cycles over time.

Hilarious, she was vibing with the little people as shes shaking hands and smiling for the camera.👏

Psilocybin is an ancient and powerful medicine. It is amusing that “modern” medicine is only now trying to understand what Indigenous people have know for a millennia.

I clicked on this instantly... I'll definitely be back tomorrow.

I enjoyed your coverage on the Yunnan Hallucinogenic mushroom. You might also find the Japanese Laughing Lantern or Laughing Gym quite interesting. (Gymnopilus junonius). Another unique hallucinogenic mushroom. Check it out. Might inspire you to make another informative video.

This is all proof that Gargamel just ate a bunch of mushrooms

You guys are my new favourite RU-vid channel, this is super cool :) keep it up!

My parents tripped out after eating breakfast in a cafe in Spain over 10 years ago. They had a load of mushrooms etc, and maintain it was definitely a mild mushroom trip. No idea how it happened, probably contamination or a very naughty chef!

I was in an extremely remote mountainous part of PNG and a child was carrying a MASSIVE blue staining bolete back to his mother to be cooked. I was surprised and took a couple photos, and the other kids told me these mushrooms taste good but MUST be cooked or you'll go 'long-long' which usually means 'crazy' but what they described was more like intoxicated/hallucinating, but they didn't have a specific word for that.

I'm a forager in Iowa bolets are a type I really dove into last year... Now it's time to undercook the blue staining variety 😂

Great video! Lots of good information. Especially enjoyed the time lapse!

Im a freshman in college and a few months ago just used my new student ID to log into the website to read this paper and it got me super interested but I hit a road block. This is my call to research these things further in college, I’ve always wanted to study abroad🤔 wish me luck!

This Bolete is called Sedesdem in the Cordilleras region of Luzon in the Philippines. The 'Little People' are called Ansisit in the Kankanaey language.

Alan is the best. His NZ trip with Joey Santoro had some great mushroom finds. Good content, new sub

Love your vids and your channel man 🤙🏽😄 Great stuff !!

This is a very informative video! Thank you! I like how you use the name, the scientific name, often. Also that it’s is paired nicely in time with the visual of the mushroom itself helps me to successfully remember the name!

I've been researching this story since it happened. I'm still baffled by the fact no one has sent these shrooms to a lab to look at wtf they have. So, she had these shrooms called "jian shou qing" that are psychoactive but not when cooked. I'd be surprised if what I can only assume to be a mid to high end restaurant didn't cook them properly and they were still psychoactive. Who knows, though? Maybe she was tripping balls and it may or may not have been good old psilocin. Probably not, though. I don't know why but this story has become extremely important to me and I'm glad someone's talking about it.

Amonita Muscaria grows on my property in NC every October. But they seem to all fruit together in a matter of days. They’re easy to miss if you don’t check for them every day when they’re due. I haven’t worked up the balls to experiment with them yet. I just feel lucky to have them visit me each year.

Great Idea! Great journey! Great follow through. Great video. Thanks for sharing!

There's Amanita muscaria all over the place around here, in colors from pale yellow to deep red and brown-red. It's not year round, but they are everywhere there's a pine stand. I don't trust the ones around here. We have oyster mushrooms, too, but it's a race to get them before the deer leave nothing but woody stumps all over the place. Sitting out at 4AM in mild drizzle isn't good for arthritis, but it's worth it.

I can honestly say psychedelics experience was probably one of the most profound and beautiful collection of moments I have ever had.

I have heard stories on the Midwest about mushrooms working a two year cycle. Nature does this sometimes. We notice it in fish spawn too at a four year cycle among crappie, walley, stripped bass, and blue gill.

I absolutely agree with the multi year cycle. I might get one or 2 here and there but no real HAULS for at least 5-6 years here in Florida. (but there's almost ALWAYS flushing somewhere, and they're not even cubes! 😂)

I LOVE how all the posts that the youtube algorithm suggest for me ALL talk about something that I have posts or talked about within the last two weeks. either I am way ahead of the curve, or the information i acquire is presenting itself to me faster. I JUST found one of these blue staining bolete about two weeks ago in Edmonton Alberta Canada and came across the same information about "seeing the little people"

I love the Amanita hunt. Many grow out back a ways from my house every August the past few years. Before that it had been over 15 years since Ive seen them so I'm excited for this year due to the abundance of rain. I have dried and boiled a small quantity and steeped it. Had a nice sedative effect and vivid dreams

I recommend to anyone with the time and patience to make mushroom extract. In my experience, there is zero percent negative side effects. It's just super clean. All you need is the tip of a knife's worth. Very clear thoughts and connection with yourself and the world. Stay happy and healthy everyone. Love from Wisconsin!

Have you looked into the psychedelic Collybia species? A couple years ago the mushrrom and psychonaught community blew up when some research came out about certain species of Collybia being psychoactive and that the chemical that causes it is very similar to that of salvinorin in salvia. But the hyped died down and I haven't been able to get any answers as to why, no one talks about it anymore and I can't find any trip reports

Someone on my local montana foraging group just posted these, they bruise blue just like the psilocybin mushrooms do, however no active alkaloids. Locals say One of the Leccinums around L. insigne. Edible thoroughly cooked

This is amazing! I'd be down to explore that region looking for mushrooms.

I ate blue staining boletes in northern arizona, they were identical to the ones you showed in the video. I dehydrated them. felt very nauseous and feverish the whole night. I had slight monsterish looking hallucinations that i could only see with my eyes closed.

What a great channel to stumble across. Sure psychedelics are cool and all but I really enjoy mycology overall, and that fungi kingdom to be full of surprises. I love that this show integrated the pharmacological aspects of the fungi kingdom, but also just the interest and science of mycology and very professional production quality. I’ve subscribed!

Love your channel, thanks for all the info

Your Amanita theory appears to hold some water and the Yunnan Little People Blue Staining Boletes are intriguing. Great episode.

At least here in Finland, the basic bright red amanita is super common every year. At some point it feels like it's impossible to walk 5 minutes without seeing at least a few, or a few dozen when they are in season. They seem to like the well tended patches of grass on the sides of roads, so I guess that might lead to a false sense of abundance when walking along the pavements next to them but it really feels like they are everywhere at a certain point in autumn.

My partner has described these mushrooms to me before. In her explination it sounds like the hallucinations are unplesent and can make you feel quite sick. It's so strange all the stories mention the little people. (btw xiao is pronounced differently; you will have to look up tongue positioning because we don't have the sound in English).

This is soooooo AWESOME!!! Great research 💥

Thanks for the heads up Tony, I’ll keep an eye out for the 7 year cycle

I have 46 acres and I get Amanita every single season. Not every 7 years. Ghost pipe are excellent pain killer btw. :)

The most common magic mushroom around my area is gymnopilus junonious. Very easy to identify, very huge and VERY, VERY bitter. Not too strong, takes a few ounces for a good dose but some mushrooms can weigh an ounce or more wet. I also found a pluteus that stained blue and I was wondering if it was active. At the time it wasn’t listed as “active” later in the year a study came to show that it was an active mushroom and I couldn’t find anymore after that. Lol.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion about culinary and medicinal mushrooms! Interesting!, I never heard of 7 year shroom cycles but there are other things in nature that have 7 year cycles.

I love your use of a “trippy” video transition at approx 15:33. Well played.

I'd be interested in this channel talking about psilomethoxin mushrooms and how mushrooms are able to absorb certain chemicals

Oh man I'd love to see some more research on this topic too! My guess is it's probably not the actual mushroom itself but maybe some kind of symbiote organism. Maybe to only a few of these boletus sp. And that's why it's hard to narrow down the little people effect. It would be interesting to compare the anecdotal evidence with times of year, rainfall averages, and temperatures at which these types of mushrooms are typically harvested. From there seeing if there are certain tree or plant species to which these are myccorhizal as well. And then check the bacteria present too. If cooking them is the guarantee against the little people effect it could just be some other life form all together .. right? Well, I'm interested and would love to hear more. We gotta send Alan over there and let him do his thing!

The thesis of the seven year cycle is interesting. Although, having a dry summer and a heavy steady rain probably made them more prolific.

I threw out some mycelium in my yard in Texas summer where it's dry AF and hasn't rained in ages and I barely watered that area and mushrooms still found a way (two mushrooms weighing 40 grams, with split caps from the lack of humidity but still they grew)

It sounds a lot like the weird hallucinations you get from deliriants like scopolamine. You should probably proceed with great caution if you are thinking about trying it.

I've eaten those mushrooms in Yunnan several times. At the time, I couldn't find much info on it so I didn't try it raw because I was concerned about any other toxins in it--like eating an uncooked A. muscaria. I heard all the anecdotes too so it was very intriguing. There is a phenomenon called "Yunnan Sudden Death Syndrome" or something. I think it was only linked to bad mushroom picking practices 5-10 years ago, so I was not gonna tempt fate unless I had clear info from a sober and sane person with a PhD next to their name and years of mycological experience. If the maker of this video is reading this and looking to connect with a true Yunnan mycological expert, PM me. I know one that used to work at the Kunming Institute of Botany.

Amazing episode! It's very exciting to think there could be way more compounds and mushrooms that can induce hallucinations. Animals across the kingdom eat to hallucinate and so we may learn a lot from observing what they do and point to what plants and mushrooms we should be studying.

My guess on the 7 year cycle, is that Muscaria probably has very specific growing conditions that make it dominant over other fungi and plants. So, the abundance cycle probably maps onto a weather pattern cycle that brings in a lot of water, light winter, etc. That occurs every 7 years ish. Think of things like the California 100 year flood cycle.

The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself.

Micro dosing magic mushrooms has changed my life. And I can’t find the word’s to express how grateful I am to be able to walk into a psilocybin cafe and legally purchase 300 mg gummy’s and drop 2 into a delicious hot lemon tea and enjoy my day. To experience joy again. I’ve said goodbye to coffee,alcohol, cigarettes and no more salt. 5 days on 2 days off for 2 years with box breathing,meditation and Buddhism. If anyone reads this I wish you happiness good health and prosperity.

good to see you out in the woods looking at the different mushrooms and I like how colourful some of them are.

nice laid back delivery and info

I did some that looked like a tree fungus that was made out of marshmallow fluff that bled this fluid that looked like concentrated prune juice and when it dried it looked like gold leaf and it bruised purple. There was like eight people that took it and we all had a great trip never seen again or heard of anything else like this.

Just spent an evening crying and apologising to my knees for not treating them well over the years. That was fun! Regards.

Wow! So glad I found your channel!

I found an abundant patch of the same yellow aminita in a birch forest. The saplings were young. Maybe 7 years. I picked a lot of them. I left plenty to replenish the location. Nothing in the last 2 years. I researched the yellow variant and found it to be Guessowii. I found a number of processing data. I used a drying method. It created a delicious cracker. It had a garlic, onion flavor. I was warned to never drink carbonated beverages. My experience was based on small dosages. 1-2 gm of the early fruit in egg shape as you called it. My response was falling asleep with a smile.

I have picked a patch of AM under the same tree every year for the last 4 years. This is in the high rockies right by one of my favorite fishing spots. I will have to pay more attention if my other spots are the same but I can definitively say that a seven year cycle isn’t always the case for amanitas, at least in my area. Very interesting theory though. I also find boletus rubriceps in the same spots almost every year. The only years it doesn’t show up is when we don’t get enough rain.

I found hundreds of big bright red amanita muscaria last year in a birch wood, they were everywhere you looked, 5-10 under every tree. Would be interesting to see if it's the same this year.

Very fascinating. Thank you for this

I have a yellow mushroom, skinny stem (to3inches) that sprouted from the potting soil I bought. Sprouts over n over again. Fantastic!

i’ve been trying to microdose. it has calmed me down. i’m not very good at math and i just grab what think is right. sometimes it’s just normal ( i like it like that. ) i’m very tickled about how much better my brain feels tho. i’m just a beginner at 63. sounds like everyone needs one good trip. i’m still holding on to that. it’s gonna happen.

That Yunnan mushroom sounds incredibly fascinating! Sounds similar actually to psilocybin mushrooms and Amanitas in the way that it may carry species specific, hallucinogenic compounds, but what's also interesting is how it may be anecdotally verified because of how the mushroom only grows in that region. If it's a compound only found in that mushroom, and the mushroom only grows in that region, that may explain why it's anecdotal: xiao ren ren sounds like a facet of Yunnan culture due to this dynamic. Definitely want to hear more about this! It's where mycology and anthropology meet, and I love hearing about that!

Thank you for sharing this video, I wandering in a forest in Quebec and found blueing Boletes, I was wondering about the same thing!

Good show man. Well done;)

I just had my first TRIP a few days ago. They were the Albino rollercoaster variety and it was good. Even today I am a lot less shy and on my way to a better balance.

Its not the psilocin itself that is blue, it is oxidized to oligomers that range from blue to green hues and eventually to darker and dirtier colors when it continues to polymerize.

Great video! I wonder if Yellen was tipped off by Xi to meet the little people and she apparently really loved the trip, lol. I'd love to hear more about people's experiences on the Blue Boletes.. Also, I'm interested now to learn more about those "Ghost Flowers". I had to look them up already because I was trying to understand how they can grow without chlorophyll, since all plants use chlorophyll to convert energy from the Sun into food for them to grow. It turns out that the Ghost Flower is parasitic and feeds off of a close by plant for it's energy to grow. Thanks for the video

Would it be at all possible for you to reorganize this playlist so I can binge it easier

My absolute favorite mushroom of all time (culinary) is the cornflower bolete, which is an intensely blue staining mushroom, they are big and never infested with bugs. Super meaty and delicious. When you cook the mushroom all of the blue color is destroyed. Maybe the next one I find I'll just eat some raw or dried, at worst I get a tummy ache.😂

I fully understand depression, and I fully understand living with SSRI's for 20 years, and I fully understand that Amanita Muscaria in low doses of decarbed water extract has allowed me to escape depression and SSRIs for 18 months now. Dr. Baba Masha has a lot of success stories like mine in her book.

pretty dope brother, subscribed to you

I swear to god I see those every year here in Oregon. Early November, every year I head to the beach and pick Psilocybe Cyanescence from the dune grass. I see those Fleshy colored Bolite variety that stain blue, but definitely not King Bolite. Pardon my spelling but also, all the Aminita's that a person could ever want out here every winter. I don't touch them, just azurescence and cyanescence for me!

Just a tip to any amanita muscaria pickers that might not know/realise this. Don't pick em if their growing by yew trees because it takes the poison out of the yew tree via the roots meaning that even after you've decarboxalysed them it will still contain the poisons from the yew tree. Don't want anyone getting hurt on the of chance. Other than that any other tree they grow with should be fine hope this helps someone

Neat! Can't wait to hear about this!

I started harvesting muscaria last year, and they’re awesome. I investigated them deeply and they’re eaten throughout Siberia, and in a particular place in Japan. They’re easy to identify and hard to confuse with any other species. Gesowii are yellow and easier to confuse with the death cap, so i won’t even try that one. This year I’ve tried the Cesária and the Rubescens varieties. Also easy to identify, though I was super hesitant with a species that looked a lot like pantherina, and i did not dare with that one. Each species has different requirements to be eaten but muscaria are easy- boil for twenty minutes, discard water, then do whatever you want with them.

This was very interesting , Subbed , Liked and shared , Thank You :) QC

It’s definitely possible there’s so many different mushrooms and plants we just haven’t discovered yet.

My friend and myself found then one year, turned to mush after we picked them (15yrs old). Found them about 5yrs later - checked every year! I think your spot on!

Your passion for amanita muscaria is interesting! I would love to send you photos of the ones I found last year that were absolutely incredible in size. The biggest was close to 30cm in diameter.

Around here, in the east of France, I go to mushrooms every year and I find Amanites Muscaria every year... I had never heard of a 7-year cycle...

It would be interesting to see a graph of the seven year cycle of each type of mushroom and see how they coincide with each other. Are they all on the same seven year cycle, or they out of phase?

I love when you go outside and forage on cam it’s super helpful

Yes I have noticed many plants and mushrooms growing more abundantly in different cycles not enough to know what years they will or recorded them but for sure

In Europe, we call scabrestalk an orange birch bolete. It the vicinity to birch trees that gives them the name here. I am in Scotland where we get the regular coloured brown birch bolete these a wee bit more southerly … I can see a ton of birches around you too which brings me to think I might be right. I personally first look for the environment, ec trees or type of fields before I look for any mushrooms. Nice videos mate, thanks :)

In my experience, the blue staining Boletes tended to be very bitter making them unpalatable. Never have I heard of a psychedelic Bolete whatsoever.

Thats so weird. At 2005 I had a real psychedelic trip after eating in a chinese restaurant. I knew that it was real as I had eaten magic mushrooms and LSD before.

Amanita Muscaria is historically understood to distort ones perspective and feeling of "time". Siberians would take it before a long journey and even though they would sometimes travel far, when they got to their destination, they felt as though they teleported there. As though no time had passed. It apparently doesnt have any other notable effect from what ive been able to find

2 words for you: boletus manicus. It´s the name ascribed by Heim. probably a complex of species in my opinion. Several species macroscopically indistinguishable.