Mushroom Season
Jan 2014 · Random House
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'Mushroom Season' is a ramble through magic mushrooms, mountains and metaphysics. After heavy sanctions relegated their use to a spell in the stoner wilderness, are psilocybin mushrooms about to help reframe important social and philosophical debates about our minds, and ourselves?
Where do they grow? What do they do to our brains? And why are they eschewed by the bourgois? Nina Lyon introduces us to Liberty Caps and Fly Agarics, the characters she encountered as a student tripper and the differences between home-grown hallucinogens and Mexican export.
Among the anecdotes and observations are chemical facts, etymological revelations and philosophical speculation. Why are mushrooms subject to social stigma? What are the good effects they might have on us? And how does illegalisation damage a culture of free-thinking and experiment? Taking apart the teenage clichés and middle-class prejudice associated with the drug, Nina Lyon provides a wonderfully entertaining history of the magic mushroom.
Where do they grow? What do they do to our brains? And why are they eschewed by the bourgois? Nina Lyon introduces us to Liberty Caps and Fly Agarics, the characters she encountered as a student tripper and the differences between home-grown hallucinogens and Mexican export.
Among the anecdotes and observations are chemical facts, etymological revelations and philosophical speculation. Why are mushrooms subject to social stigma? What are the good effects they might have on us? And how does illegalisation damage a culture of free-thinking and experiment? Taking apart the teenage clichés and middle-class prejudice associated with the drug, Nina Lyon provides a wonderfully entertaining history of the magic mushroom.
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4.3
37 reviews
Rob Campbell
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8 November 2015
This is a short essay, not a book. It's well written and echoes the apparently changing attitudes to psychedelics, but doesn't delve too deep. The science is a little ropey in places, but there is none of the craziness present in a lot of other writers on this topic.
Matthew Hill
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21 December 2015
A no nonsense peek behind the stage. It is always a pleasant surprise to find someone I think I would enjoy talking with. Ms Lyon's observations reflect my meager experience in these matters with little refraction. Time weighted these adventures have been by far the most influential factors in shaping the critter I call me. Thanks Nina!
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Travis M Thomas
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23 June 2019
I was completely nourished with written facts and fiction and intriguing information, about psilocybin mushrooms.
About the author
Nina Lyon grew up in London, was educated at UCL, and spent her formative years going to lots of raves and thinking too much about them. She has worked in a therapeutic community, has helped run a philosophy festival and lives up a hill near Hay-on-Wye with her two children. She is a PhD student at Cardiff University and writes about nonsense and metaphysics.
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