Do you think several negative interpretations and/or several positive interpretations would help avoid this? It's a great example, but you should do a control test where you didn't eat the mushrooms, to make sure they're not interfering. :P By the way, aren't there thousands of psilocybin mushrooms that look very dfiferent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psilocybin_mushroomsAfter finding that one, we would turn around and go back where we just were and see them everywhere.
In a given region, there won't be thousands of species. And, within genera or even families, they'll look pretty similar. In the Northwest, it's so wet there are probably a couple dozens species at least. From what I've heard though, all psilocybin mushrooms will bruise blue-ish, due to the psilocybin presence. Of course, never eat anything you aren't 100% sure on. Even then, a small amount to check first would be very advisable.
I was just reading this in an article about mushroom explosion in the Vancouver area about a year ago: The BC Drug and Poison Control Information Centre received about 400 calls about exposure to wild mushrooms over the last two years. Most cases of serious illness were due to adults or teenagers eating poisonous mushrooms, either mistakenly harvested or used to try to “get high”.And the so-called “magic mushroom” (Psilocybe semilanceata) is frequently mistaken for its look-alike Galerina autumnalis, which is highly toxic and can be lethal if ingested.
As for mushrooms: The ones we were looking for were very delicate with little brown tips. I imagine eating the mushroom made it possible to see more everywhere, and how could we not? It was the strangest thing. The picture above is from a University of British Columbia article about how these psilocybes used to be all over campus in the 70s. Where are they now? |“Through the late ’60s and early ’80s, there was a lot of interest in [magic mushrooms], and they grew very abundantly on campus,” said Kroeger. “On campus, we have a couple thousand species. The ones that would be desirable for food might be one dozen or two dozen, the ones that are psychoactive might be four or five species.”Do you think several negative interpretations and/or several positive interpretations would help avoid this?
Negative interpretations are easy. Mix up all those negs with at least one positive for greater cognitive complexity.