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Patron Spotlight: Stealthy Spores, Sam Gandy, James W Jesso, ShroomShroom
🕑 Added 2024-03-14 22:37:04 +0000 UTCAmong our community here are a lot of talented people doing interesting things related to the field of psychedelics. As I learn about various projects from patrons I'd like to start sharing things to the rest of our community and if you'd like me to highlight something relevant that you are working on, please let me know about it. Along these lines, I'd also like to point out that the latest patreon APP (for Android or Apple) has a cool new feature for "Community Chat" so all GordoTEK members can share whatever they want with this community, ask questions, post pictures, and help one another out. So far this feature has been very well received and quite active, so I highly encourage everyone to take advantage of this - it also helps ME out when people can quickly get answers to questions directly from our community instead of through private messages directly to me.
Stealthy Spores
"Stealthy Spores" has created a mycology related collectible card game, check out the trailer its great! π he even created a coupon code "Gordo" that gets you 10% off any order:
https://stealthyspores.com/
I was honored to be included in the game and relieved that I wasn't a villain π Speaking of villains, my favorite is:
ππͺπΌ that's GOLD. There are also cards describing mushroom species and cultivars so you can actually learn a thing or two from the game.
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SAM GANDY
Sam is a PhD ecologist & researcher in England. He has published several papers and articles related to the field including
The potential synergistic effects between psychedelic administration and nature contact for the improvement of mental health
and Participation in an indigenous Amazonian-led ayahuasca retreat associated with increases in nature relatedness β a pilot study
Now Sam is working on a new project that I'm hoping our community will participate in (its free and anonymous and may help us better understand the differences between mushroom species)
Please take some time to fill out the anonymous survey ESPECIALLY if you've experienced any non-cubensis psychedelic mushroom (like pan cyans, natalensis, subtropicalis, zapotecorum, liberty caps, etc) :
https://ipz.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a5W81vgOy9VEPMW
This is a first step to see if further research is justified. I hope that eventually carefully controlled double blind comparison studies will be done to see if the reported differences between species are statistically significant or merely unreliable anecdotes shaped perhaps by shared expectations.
"Our goal is to enhance the scientific understanding of these experiences and their potential variations across species"
"Research Objectives: This study seeks to identify patterns and distinctions in the subjective experiences elicited by various psilocybin mushroom species, addressing questions such as: Do different species cause different subjective effects? Do certain effects always co-occur? Are there a set of clusters into which we can group species depending on their effects? And many more! Your input as an experienced user is critical in enabling us to discern these patterns, contributing to a more nuanced understanding in the field of fungal psychopharmacology. This is especially the case for those of you experienced with species that are less frequently used."
"Your Participation: In the following, we will present you with a list of psychoactive mushroom species/varieties and ask you to select those species that you have used at least once in the past 12 months. For each of those species, we will then ask specific questions to capture the qualitative aspects of your typical experience with this species. This includes sensory perceptions, cognitive changes, and emotional responses you associate with each species."
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JAMES W JESSO
James is an author, podcaster and YouTuber who has been doing interviews under "Adventures Through the Mind" for many years with various experts, authors, and thinkers in the field of psychedelics and related matters. I often find myself listening to his interviews while I am driving on long road trips. He has an eclectic mix of guests, sometimes serious scientists and authors, other times not so much, but its always fun to listen to different perspectives and ideas. Sometimes he even has guests with opposing views on at the same time as in The Great Shamanic Debate | James Kent vs. Julian Palmer Check out his content.
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I'm not an affiliate or anything like that, but a patron here runs ShroomShroom, they sell fresh mushrooms, dried mushrooms, powders and tinctures of the (legal) gormet, medicinal variety. They generously sent me a sampling of their tinctures which come in glass dropper bottles:
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Links to all of my TEKs, Videos, Trip music, and frequently asked questions with answers can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/22774475 (everything is made available for FREE, I do not use pay walls, support the work only if you feel like you've benefited from it and you are able to do so). People have told me my work has helped them overcome depression, addictions, PTSD, relationship issues, direction in life, and to have important, meaningful, sometimes life changing mystical experiences. I feel honored and blessed to play a small role in this. That is my reward.
Comments
eTanium
Software engineer brain: I'd love to see the imputed values addressed in the URL as a hash params. Then on page load, search for present params, and auto-fill in the values within the form. This allows sharing of this data with someone that has no clue what to put into these fields. As in, I am trying to get my sister to trust in my dosage calculations, but she doesn't know how long my dried fruits have sat, and in what conditions.
C Wayne
I'm truly glad to be able to support and be apart on any level and I'm learning already so keep up good work. Mad respect for ya.
Paul Armstrong
Cannot express enough gratitude for the amazing effort put forth to enhance the lives of others, a noble cause indeed!
Kitchen Mycology
These cards are great! I can't believe I made it in there with the likes of GordoTEK, PGT, etc! Feels like I sneaked into the backstage party somehow! πβ₯
Sam Gandy
Thank you for the survey study shout out Gordo! Any and all feedback from any well travelled psilonauts regarding their experiences with different species of psilocybin is hugely appreciated...especially with regard to the more commonly used non-Cubensis species such as Pan cyan, P. natalensis, P. cyanescens and P. semilanceata.
Kenny Frost
Gordo is the man with the plan! Much respect for all you do brother!
Mountain Myco
That's awesome sir! Congrats on the card with the kind and true words. You are the man and we all appreciate you.
The Beehive Ashram
That card is epic!! Awesome π€© π€πΌππ€πΌ
Ezra the Psilo-Magician
Does Willy have a card?
GordoTEK
πβ€οΈπ Glad to hear it!
GordoTEK
Nice! Post a pic in the community chat ππ
lulushroom
Thank you Gordo !
MycoOzarks
3 months later, I still read the "life is short" note you wrote every day. At that moment in my life, receiving that was like receiving lightning. I've never been the same ππTY
Tony Hansen
You may not be a villain, but did they have a mad scientist card? Thank you brother, I always look forward to getting a moment after work when I see that you posted for the day, some good stuff for me to check out! I've been so damn busy, I need to send you a link to some photos and some feedback from your very kind and generous gift of the spores you sent in November; it was an awesome experience and I just crushed it! I'm still working on this damn project that should have been done 3 months ago, it'll be done next week, Famous Last words, and then I'll have a few weeks off between projects.
Alex E.
Thank you for sharing Gordo π
Justin Soltysik
Thanks Gordo π
CoCo
The Bob Ross of psychedelics! Thanks Gordo for creating this awesome community where we can learn and share all things related to our common passion ππ€π€
Hey Mama
I really enjoy James W Jesso, such a thoughtful interviewer! Nice reminder to tap into his channel again! Thanks for your work on these spotlights theyβre all very interesting indeed.
ArmadilloLizard
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D4
Thank you Gordo!! π€
Mycomojo
Appreciate all you do Gordo! Thanks for the links!
Ivon
Thank you ππ
Q-Zinart
Thank you, sir, for all your non-villainous Time, Experience, and Knowledge
