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psilocybin
psilocybin
(sle-sbn, sle-) noun
A
hallucinogenic compound,
C13H18(20)N2O3P2, obtained from the
mushroom Psilocybe
mexicana.
[New Latin Psilocybe,
genus name (Greek psilos, bare + Greek kub, head) + -IN.]
"Well, I'm not wedded to any of this. I just simply state the
facts, and the facts are that, not
DMT
so much, which is pretty common in many plants and animals, but
psilocybin. Psilocybin is 4-phosphoryloxy-NN-dimethyltryptamine.
This is slightly technical, but it is the only 4-phosphorylated
indole on this planet. That's strange because the way biology
works is if you have a molecule useful in a biological system,
then in other biological systems you will get that same molecule
or tiny variants; methylated or o-methylated. So here is
psilocybin with the only hydrolation in the 4 position on the
planet. Well now, they search for extraterrestrial life with
radio telescopes waiting for a signal. Fine. Another way would
be to search the biological inventory of this planet for
something that looks like it did not evolve from the main,
broad
flow of animal
and plant
evolution.
And if you do that, this 4-phosphorylated indole is sticking up
there like a sore thumb. I'd like to see a paper about how many
of these kinds of chemical
anomalies are known to exist on this
earth in life. And what's the explanation for this? I've never
seen anybody discuss this kind of thing. And yet to my mind the
psilocybin molecule is as artificial as a
Coke bottle. As it
appears in nature. If you'll just inventory nature you'd pick
this molecule up and say, 'Well what is this!'"
-
Terence McKenna
interview in
_The Resonance
Project_ #3 (1993)
- track _#4. 4-Indolol,
3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl], Phosphate Ester: (Psilocybin)_
26:51 by
Coil off
of
_Time Machines:
4 Tones to Facilitate Travel Through
Time_ CD
-
604
track _Trouble (
Hallucinogen's
Psyllocibin Remix)_ MP3
by
Beast off of _Trantrance
8_
compilation
- desert/stoner/psychedelic rock track
_Fields Of Psilocybin_ MP3
by Nebula off of _To The Center_ 12" (red splatter vinyl) on
Sub Pop #493 (1999)/(2018)
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