Diane Conn Darling is a freelance writer, editor, ritualist, and long-time psychonaut. She is the former editor of Green Egg, The Green Man, and PanGaia magazines and lives in Northern California. She can be reached via e-mail at: [email protected]
ALSO BY RALPH METZNER
Green Psychology: Transforming Our Relationship to the Earth
Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca (Editor)
The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience
The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe
Opening to Inner Light: The Transformation of Human Nature and Consciousness
Through the Gateway of the Heart: Accounts of Experiences with MDMA and other Empathogenic Substances (Editor)
Maps of Consciousness: I Ching, Tantra, Tarot, Alchemy, Astrology, Actualism
The Ecstatic Adventure: Reports of Chemical Explorations of the Inner World
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert)
About the Author
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., helped found the Harvard Psilocybin Project in 1960 and is now a psychotherapist and professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the author of many books, including The Psychedelic Experience (with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert), Maps of Consciousness, Opening to Inner Light, and The Well of Remembrance. He lives in Sonoma, California.
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Copyright © 2004, 2005 Ralph Metzner
Originally published in 2004 by Four Trees Press, a division of Green Earth Foundation, under the title Teonanácatl: Sacred Mushroom of Visions
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Teonanácatl
Sacred mushroom of visions : teonanácatl : a sourcebook on the psilocybin mushroom / edited by Ralph Metzner with Diane Conn Darling.
p. cm.
Originally published: Teonanácatl. El Verano, CA : Four Trees Press, c2004.
ebook ISBN 978-1-5947-7628-1
print ISBN 1-59477-044-1
1. Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic. 2. Mycology. 3. Shamanism. 4. Mushroom culture. I. Metzner, Ralph. II. Darling, Diane. III. Title.
BF209.H36T46 2006
154.4—dc22
2005013502
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