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Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a beautiful princess named Luna. Luna was not your typical princess, for she held the ancient pagan traditions close to her heart. She was known as the pagan princess of the realm. Every year, when the harvest moon would rise in the sky, Luna would gather together her people to celebrate the bountiful harvest and give thanks to the gods and goddesses for their blessings. The harvest moon was a symbol of abundance and fertility, and Luna believed that honoring it would bring prosperity to her kingdom. During the pagan princess harvest moon celebration, the entire kingdom would come alive with vibrant colors and joyful festivities.

During the pagan princess harvest moon celebration, the entire kingdom would come alive with vibrant colors and joyful festivities. The streets would be lined with stalls selling fresh produce from the harvest, handmade crafts, and delicious treats. People would dress in traditional pagan attire, adorned with flowers and leaves to honor the earth and its beauty.

Hackers, Mason Jars, and the Psychedelic Science of DIY Shrooms

The history of home cultivation methods of Psilocybe is more connected to early internet culture than you'd think.

It began with a Mason jar. It was wide-mouthed and translucent, good for air flow and the visual inspection of radial growth. The year was 1975 and Dennis McKenna, then a starry-eyed 25-year-old, was on a mission to grow magic mushrooms. An article in the academic journal Mycologia by a researcher who had grown button mushrooms for genetic analysis had given him the idea to use the household item as a vessel. It was small scale, affordable, reusable, and inconspicuous, plus he could buy it at any grocery store. He filled it with rye grain for a substrate, sterilized it, and inoculated the rye with spores he’d brought back from Ecuador and germinated on agar. And then he hoped for the best. It was a weighty undertaking; these spores were from mushrooms that had revealed cosmic truths to Dennis and his brother, Terence. Dennis wrote in his memoir some 40 years later, “We wanted a steady supply so we could easily revisit those dimensions; more importantly we wanted others to have their own experiences as a way of testing ours.”

Whether driven by trans-dimensional communications, the scientific method, or both, the brothers got their wish, and then some. Making use of Dennis’s undergraduate lab skills, and with help from Terence’s girlfriend, Kat Harrison, they formulated and then published in 1976 (under pseudonyms) the first reliable instructions for the controlled production of psilocybin mushrooms in Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide. From that first manual, a new domestic practice was born, one that adapts modern lab skills to populist, albeit psychedelic, applications. The directions were tailored to one species in particular, the most potent and easiest to cultivate: Psilocybe cubensis. P. cubensis (or cubensis, for short) soon became the model species—and the Mason jar the standard vessel—for magic mushroom cultivation.

The evolution of these home cultivation methods is a story of user-generated, iterative design, the kind that has become familiar in the internet age. Today, Google “How to grow magic mushrooms,” and you’ll find countless books, YouTube videos, websites, online courses, and free PDFs. Whereas the instructions in Psilocybin were meticulous and complicated, today’s methods are simplified to the point of being nearly fool-proof. As psilocybin moves farther out of the margins and into the mainstream towards mass market commodification, the story of Psilocybe cultivation reminds us that these mushrooms have been an object of scientific and technological experimentation for over half a century. This little-known history is entangled with the early internet in both its cultural values and practical sensibility. Though the criminalization of psilocybin pushed them underground, cultivators came together online, united by a collective fascination for mushrooms, a shared love of tinkering and hacking, and the drive to share their knowledge and know-how freely.

For most of its history, mycology has been overlooked and understudied, relegated to the shadows of botany and microbiology. Mushroom cultivation has been around in China since at least the 7th century but it didn’t develop in Europe until hundreds of years later. In the 20th century, a new scientific understanding of fungi gave rise to a high-yield industry, but mycology and mushroom cultivation remained an obscure niche. It was a revelation to both mycologists and the psychedelic-curious when, in 1957, an article in Life magazine described the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms among Mazatec people in Southern Mexico. But until the publication of the McKennas manual, psilocybin-producing species were a rare, seasonal, and wild-foraged delicacy among hippies. In the wake of Psilocybin, and with the growing interest in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms, a handful of manuals opened up the craft of cultivation in the ’80s and ’90s. The first of these manuals, Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton’s The Mushroom Cultivator (1983), became a veritable bible for a new generation of aspiring mushroom farmers.

The overarching focus of these manuals was how to avoid contamination. Although mushrooms are often associated with dirt and rot, they require a sterile environment for cultivation. In the wild, a single mushroom can drop between one to thirty billion spores per day, but faced with countless microbial competitors and widely varying environments, very few of these spores actually germinate. When they do, they grow into individual threads of mycelium, which then explore their environment, mate, and form an enmeshed network. Eventually they produce fruit bodies (mushrooms) and start the process over again. But the cultivator is working with only a tiny fraction of this living material, so the goal is to eliminate the random chance involved. Instead of launching trillions of spores, cultivators get rid of the competition: They sterilize a fine-tuned growing environment and then introduce the spores they want to grow. The problem is that microbial contaminants are everywhere—they live on our skin and eyelashes, nestle in the folds of our clothing, and float through the air on dust particles. Every interaction over the open vessel risks contamination. One wrong move and the batch is bad.

Taken altogether, these practices are called “sterile technique”—the bane and the pride of every serious mushroom cultivator. Good sterile technique can mean the difference between a pound of fresh mushrooms and jars full of green mold. Specialized tools can help, but they’re generally expensive and bulky.

I know, I know, a few cities and the State of Oregon have decriminalized some psychedelics, but decriminalization does not create any kind of legal, regulated market. And yes, Oregon will eventually have a regulated market but not until at least 2023. And, of course, there are a few companies who are paving the way with research under FDA auspices, but that doesn’t create a legal market either. So today, selling psilocybin just isn’t legal.

As the pagan princess, Luna would lead the procession through the city, carrying a golden chalice filled with the finest harvest wine. She would make offerings to the gods and goddesses at the sacred altar, praying for a fruitful year ahead. The people would chant and sing ancient pagan songs, filling the air with a sense of unity and reverence. Once the rituals were complete, the celebration would continue into the night with feasting, dancing, and storytelling. The entire kingdom would come together to share in the joy and abundance of the harvest. There would be bonfires lit all around, symbolizing the warmth and light that the harvest moon brought to their lives. Under the luminous glow of the harvest moon, Luna would dance with her people, twirling and spinning in a graceful dance of gratitude. It was said that her dance had the power to bless the land and ensure a prosperous future for the kingdom. The pagan princess harvest moon celebration was a time of deep connection with nature and the divine. It reminded the people of their roots and the importance of living in harmony with the earth. Luna, with her unwavering devotion to her pagan traditions, served as an inspiration to her people and a symbol of hope for a better world. As the harvest moon set below the horizon, the people would bid farewell to another year of abundance and welcome the colder months with open hearts. They knew that with the pagan princess leading the way, their kingdom would continue to thrive and prosper, guided by the cycles of the moon and the wisdom of their ancient pagan traditions..

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