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San Pedro Preparation...and my understanding of how to do it correctly - San Pedro Preparation |
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Written by Mjshroomer
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Tuesday, 21 December 2004 |
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Page 1 of 12 Especially in a manner as close to as possible, the way the Indians of Ecuador and Peru prepare it. Only with a few slight modifications of employment...
Well I had two methods, one on paper and the other on film.
Editors for Psychedelic Illuminations conducted the filmed version. Those were lost when the publisher and his wife went through a violent divorce and the photos got trashed, along with many new articles.
And I wrote it all down somewhere and I finally found the text.
Now. Here is my story on the preparation of this cactus.
Years ago in the early 1970s I became friends with the employees of a plant shop in the Seattle University District.
What was really cool is that I found out that the owner of this plant shop was also the author, as well as the editor of several fine books on “How to grow the Finest Marijuana Indoors under Halides.” And How to Grow Pot Hydroponically.” They also published “How to Identify and Grow Psilocybe Mushrooms,” by Jule Stevens and Rich Gee.
And one of the employees and I went to the Seattle arboretum in 1975 and were playing Frisbee when I dropped the Frisbee to the ground at the Woodlawn Park section of the Seattle Arboretum.
As I bent down to pick up the Frisbee I noticed some interesting mushrooms in the field in which we were playing.
I then lifted one shroom out of the ground and realized it was Psilocybe semilanceata.
Well let me tell you guys. That really blew my mind.
I showed my friend this shroom and he mentioned to me that I since I showed an interest in these special mushrooms, maybe I would be interested in trying a San Pedro Cactus, which he told me, contained mescaline.
At that time in the early to middle 1970s, I learned that this cactus was from Peru and Ecuador and was used ritualistically in ceremonies similar to those associated with the ritualistic use of Peyotl. I soon read a few papers and learn that the natives of these countries prepared their cacti as a drink that they knew as Chimora.
The native peoples of Peru who used this cactus for medicinal purposes would sliced, dice and chop up the sliced star shaped pieces and then boiled the material for hour after hour to get the alkaloids to mix in with the water. Sometimes the cooking preparation took from 8-24 hours. After that the drink would be passed through a cloth and the liquid collected in clay drinking vessels which enabled the Indians to partake of the sacred juice for a most rewarding experience.
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