Cedar Falls Mycology Podcast

Episode #9 Growing Wood Loving Psilocybes Featuring Jack Cyan

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt from Cedar Falls Mycology, Welcome to the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us... but what we can do  for the fungi.   We also  have  Jack Cyan here via zoom joimig us from Oregon.   Jack Cyan is really kind of the quintessential Johnny Appleseed character of the pschedlelic mushroom world atleast around the PNW.  Jack runs the wood lovers united FB, This page has 18,000 followers.  and is dedicated to distributing information on growing wood loving mushrooms specifically from the genus Psilocybe. In this episode, we’re going to discuss this fascinating topic

Episode #8 Mushrooms and Witchcraft, "Mushroom Magick" Book review featuring Shawn Engle

All right, good people. Welcome to episode eight.   Today we’re gonna talk about the book, Mushroom Magik, thats Magik with a ‘k” written by Shawn Engel.  We have Shawn  here on the show and we are going to ask her some questions...
 
But first I’d like to start by telling everyone the book we are discussing is called “ Mushroom Magik” this name does not refer  to medicinal mushrooms in a traditional sense, or psychedelic mushrooms. We are talking about mushrooms being used in magic for conjuring and spell casting.  Mushrooms have a long history of being associated with witchcraft and magic. On this episode we’re gonna talk about that relationship between,  the fungi, the witchcraft, and the magik....
 
This book is divided into three main sections. First, it has an introduction to 22 different mushrooms that are useful in magic, and then there’s kind of a journey around the globe exploring Ethnomycology through the folklore of a lot of different countries. You know, usually when you look into folklore, and , ethnomycology, you get overwhelmed with a lot of stuff from Central America, Russia and Asia . This book covers those regions but also includes historical accounts from Madagascar, the Congo... Malaysia places you might not normally have heard anything about mushrooms from.   The third part of the book gets into some step by step magik spells that involve mushrooms.
Sounds interesting, right?

Episode #7 Checking in with the DMA featuring Daniel Silberstein

Welcome to the  podcast where we ask ourselves not what the fungi can do for us but what we can do  for the fungi. I am super excited to have Daniel Silberstein joining us for this episode.  Danny is one of the founders of Developments in Mycelium Applications otherwise known as DMA. DMA is a virtual course covering the vast potential of fungi-based solutions and entrepreneurship from experts in the Mycelia  realm.    Dani is based in Spain; but DMA is a global collaborative project.

Episode #6 Checking In Down Under, featuring Caine Barlow

Greetings everyone. This is Tim Leavitt  from Cedar Falls Mycology,   I am super excited to have Caine Barlow joining us for this episode.  Caine Barlow is an Australian mycologist.   He is a fungi educator, an ethnobotanist, an independent researcher, and a Science Writer based in Melbourne.   He regularly gives  lectures on mycology as well as fungi conservation, and  he teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. You can find him on the Internet as “Guerrilla Mycology”
On this episode we are going to discuss the fascinating topic of Australian Enthnomycology and entheogenesis.   

Episode #5 Having A Good Trip with Eugenia Bone

In this episode, I’m going to do a quick book review on Eugenia’s newest book.  "Have a Good Trip" and then we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  tripping on psychedelic mushrooms. 
Some of you may know Eugenia as one of the stars in the movie Fantastic Fungi.  She is also responsible for creating the Fantastic Fungi Cookbook that goes along with the movie.   She also wrote the book Mycophilia but today we are going to talk  about her newest book  “Have a Good Trip, Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience”
 
 

Episode #4 Interview With A Truffle Huntress, Featuring Dawn Meiklejohn

 In this episode, I'm going to give a mycological introduction to truffles. Then we'll get into some questions with Dawn about truffle hunting, truffle cooking, and then we'll get into some theoretical mycology questions.

Episode # 3 Discussion of Pychedelic Therapy

In this episode, we're going to discuss the fascinating topic of  psychedelic therapy.
 
We will start with some of the questions we can answer...like the legal status of psychedelic therapy... and then we are going ask a few questions that can not be answered.  As was mentioned in the intro to episode 1,  one of the recurring themes on this show is theoretical mycology  by that we mean mycology questions that can not really be answered beyond the point of speculation or opinion

Episode #2 A Brief History Of Psychedelic Mushrooms

Listeners are introduced to the historical mycozooistic relationship that exists between humans and magic mushrooms.

Episode #1 An Introduction To Mushrooms and Mycozooism

This first episode introduces listeners to the recurring themes on our show, theoretical mycology, mushrooms and mycozooism.