I’ll remove those two pesky methyl groups as soon as I remember again after I’ve forgotten about it this time. Thanks!

EDIT: Fixed.

I think there is a mistake. The third compound you present and label as 5HT (serotonin) is not serotonin but 5-HO-DMT, bufotenin. In order for it to be serotonin you need at the N on the chain to remove the two methyls and substitute them with nitrogens. 5HT is 5-hydroxy-tryptamine not 5-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine.

Truth is, I have no idea what I want to do – I’ll just see what happens and take any opportunities as they come!

Also, please send a copy of that paper when it’s finished. Perhaps I’ll sum it up here for those less scientifically minded…

I have a paper coming out on a new compound obtained from a liquid culture of Psilocybe samuiensis Guzmán, Bandala and Allen, called, Psilosamuiensin A, a sesquiterpenoid metabolite of Psilocybe samuiensis. This is a paper of which I am one of nine authors who conducted this research.

john

What name should I use for the authorship on your article. IF it is your real name, then email it to me at mjshroomer1@yahoo.com,

Otherwise it would go under Unsigned, but when I do that, that is usually reserved for news articles or editorials where an author is unknown.

The bibliography has more than 2800 references, 1800 annotations, 9,000 cross-references and more than 1,000 photo images including first pages of hundreds of published papers.

Your real name would legitimize your work as scholarly. But most people cannot afford to buy the bibliography so no one would really know who you are, except unless someone referenced the paper in their works, but then they would not know it was you under your screen name.

By the way, I read your Salvia paper, but not all of it.

I wanted to mention that most Mazatecs eat about 14 pairs of leaves. Albert Hofmann ate such leaves in a ceremony conducted by Maria Sabina’s daughters while his wife Anita and R. Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina ate mushrooms.

Hofmann reported feelings of sexuality in the dances performed in the ritual by Maria’s daughters.

You should read my magazine article at my site on Kratom and shrooms in Thailand.

I hope to see more pages form you on your site. I bookmarked it.

John

and have a shroomy day.

Are you going for a masters in entheogenic drug pharmacology, or in Economic Botany as did Richard Evans Schultes?

Thanks a lot – that means a lot coming from yourself. Also, thanks for your corrections! Although there are some mistakes, I’m glad you didn’t pick up on anything pharmacology related – I’m sure that wouldn’t look too great considering this was delivered to a neuropharmacology class.

Please feel free to do whatever you like with the article if you think people might find it at all useful. :^)

There are exactly, right now, 200 known species of psilocybian fungi worldwide.

And Wasson latter changed his opinion to include that Teonanacatl implied wondrous mushroom of Meat of the Gods.

Today, no living Indian group in Mexico in modern times know or refer to any sacred mushroom as Teonanacatl.

That was a word used in the Nahuatl language to describe any of the sacred mushrooms and not a single known species.

Again, if yo have time, read some of my published literature at my site in the articles section.

http://www.mushroomjohn.org/articles.htm

I will be putting your article liested in my CD-ROM “Teonanáncatl: A Bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi.”

Thanks for sharing and have a shroomy day.

btw, there are more than 14,800 images at my site related to shrooms.

During my 11 years on the internet, several dozens of people asked for use of photos and information for supposed school projects and presentations onthe internet and i must congratulate you as the first person who has presented such a paper.

I will also post this at you post at entheogen.com
Best regards,

John W. Allen