Sacred Mushrooms and Mental Illness
Quick answer: This article reviews emerging research on psilocybin mushrooms and mental health, including studies suggesting microdosing may help with anxiety, depression, and stress, and the FDA’s “breakthrough therapy” designation for psilocybin in treatment-resistant depression. It stresses that microdosing is a tool rather than a cure, that caution and quality sourcing matter, and that anyone […]
Grow Magic Mushrooms at Home with the Hoodie Tek
Quick answer: The Hoodie Tek is a simple, low-maintenance fruiting method for growing mushrooms at home. You mix colonized grain spawn into a substrate grow bag, let it colonize, add rubber bands near the top, cut a slit to fruit, and harvest. After each flush you tuck the bag’s cut top back in like a […]
Welcome to Psanctuary, America’s First Magic Mushroom Church
Quick answer: Psanctuary is a non-denominational, faith-based church in Kentucky believed to be the first in the U.S. to use psilocybin mushrooms as its sole sacrament. It operates legally as a 508(c)(1)(A) religious organization, relying on religious freedom protections rather than drug-law reform. This post is an interview with founding member Eric Osborne about his […]
The Psychedelic Closet: How to Get Out
Quick answer: The easiest way to talk to family about psychedelics is to connect the topic to something they already care about. This post offers angles for breaking the ice, from your own happiness, mental health, and productivity to food, art and music, investing, environmentalism, sports, and support for war veterans. By acknowledging your family’s […]
Magic Mushrooms and Nature Heal You and the Planet
Quick answer: This post explores why spending time in nature with magic mushrooms is healing for both people and the planet. It argues that psilocybin experiences in natural settings deepen our sense of connection, awe, and ecological responsibility. By dissolving the felt separation between ourselves and the living world, mushrooms can inspire the care and […]
Five principles for community living
Quick answer: This guest post shares five principles that keep community life at Fungi Academy strong and connected: share generously, take responsibility and initiative, keep your shared spaces clean, pause and observe to find your niche, and practice and teach what you know. The thread running through all five is that communities thrive when everyone […]
A place for transformation, creation and self-development
Quick answer: This is a reflective piece about the early days of the Fungi House, the community space behind Fungi Academy. It describes life there as a place for introspection, healing, and creativity, where people from many cultures live together, share meals, and reconnect with nature and each other. Jasper calls it the house of […]
Teotihuacan’t Bring Us Down
Entering Teotihuacan Teotihuacan’s Piramide de la Luna Determined to watch the sunrise atop a pyramid, we parked our beloved Fungibus alongside a fence cloaked in darkness just behind Piramide del Sol at the sacred Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacan. A tornado erupts inside the bus as we bundle up, clothes, backpacks and sleeping bags flying in a flurry of […]
Divine Synchronicity – Survival of the Magical School Bus
Quick answer: This is a personal travel story from the Fungi Academy crew’s 2016 journey by school bus toward Guatemala. When the bus broke down in New Mexico, a series of synchronicities led them to Martin, a mechanic who repaired it for free and caught a dangerous loose bolt. The takeaway: staying in the flow, […]
Growth spurt on the Magical Fungi bus
Quick answer: This is a personal, reflective post from the early days of the Fungi Academy crew’s bus journey from San Francisco toward Guatemala. The author reflects on the community of creators drawn to the magical fungi bus, how the group grows stronger the further south they travel, and the idea that challenges and shadow […]
