{"id":981,"date":"2008-02-07T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2011-04-17T19:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T01:48:02","slug":"shroom-the-book-shrooms-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Shroom the Book, Shrooms the Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still on the entheogenic theme …<\/p>\n

Andy Letcher, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, lent his expertise to a horror film<\/a> in this YouTube video:<\/p>\n

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I liked his book<\/a>, so I suppose that publicity for it is a Good Thing.<\/p>\n

Actually, Shrooms — now on DVD<\/a>\"\"<\/em> appears to fall in the category of exploitation film<\/a>, in the fine tradition of Reefer Madness<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still on the entheogenic theme … Andy Letcher, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, lent his expertise to a horror film in this YouTube video: I liked his book, so I suppose that publicity for it is a Good Thing. Actually, Shrooms — now on DVD appears to fall in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,36],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entheogens","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":691,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=691","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":0},"title":"A Cultural History of Magic Mushrooms","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Andy Letcher's Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom is also on my to-buy list.Much stranger than the fictions it has inspired, the world of the magic mushroom is a place where shamans and hippies rub shoulders with psychiatrists, poets and international bankers.The magic mushroom was only rediscovered fifty\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"entheogens\"","block_context":{"text":"entheogens","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=entheogens"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=chascli-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0060828285","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2564,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2564","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":1},"title":"Occultism and Mushrooms","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Not necessarily psychotropic mushrooms. To learn more about them, read Andy Letcher's Shroom or the works of Paul Stamets, Dale Pendell, etc. These are metaphorical mushrooms\u2014or mushrooms as metaphor\u2014from an article by Wouter Hanegraaff on the German scholar of esotericism Will-Erich Peuckert (1895-1969): To me, [Peuckert's] book [Pansophie] breathed\u00a0 an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"occultism\"","block_context":{"text":"occultism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=occultism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7436,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7436","url_meta":{"origin":981,"position":2},"title":"Bemushroomed in the Deep Woods","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"M. and I have been hitting the deep woods one day a week as part of the annual Mushroom Hunt. Yesterday was an odd one. Actually, the previous hunt, six days earlier, was even stranger. First, I had a full-blown hallucination of a nice Boletus edulis (king bolete, steinpilz, etc.)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Colorado\"","block_context":{"text":"Colorado","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=colorado"},"img":{"alt_text":"mushroomjar.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mushroomjar.jpg-300x261.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}