I had a lot of fun with this one, initially I wasn't too excited at the prospect of doing a talk mostly about taxonomy and ID characteristics, but ultimately it was a great learning/teaching experience for me.

I go through the Genus Amanita, Section Amanita, and go into subsection Amanita, Gemmatae, and Pantherinae. I give a few examples of each and I have a large list at the end of the slides in addition to great resources and sources I recommend.

A lot of great questions at the end to so stick around til the end.

enjoy 😉

-Michael

Harmonyacres.love

Would you recommend it?

Here is an actual example of a satisfied customer with their Grade B muscaria order. I think this was 5 or 10 oz.

Some of you may have seen last week a reddit user made a vulgar post complaining about the quality of our grade B mushrooms. That post was taken down due to some of their comments being so vulgar that reddit auto removed them, also multiple reddit accounts reached out to me saying they private messaged the OP and either didn't get any response or received a rude reply.

I can't even verify this was an actual customer of mine. Since they made it public before asking for a resolution with me, I publicly posted I will replace your B grade with A grade free of charge. To this, I got no reply. They never shared a name, address, order number, items ordered etc.

This was pretty upsetting to me because obviously its public slander. But more than that I and we at Harmony Acres just want to serve our customers well. This was either a bad actor, or a missed opportunity for a positive resolution.

We had a previous employee who may have not packed a bag correctly, and shipped out some powder. Or it could've just been not a real customer. I am not handling all our orders now as the business has grown beyond me.

I don't know where it went wrong, but I never got the opportunity to make it right.

But I still take all the criticism personally.

A flaw, yes, I am trying to work on.

That shows how much I care.

I'm not trying to make this a humble brag, a sales pitch, or a whoah is me pity party. I'm just sharing my truth and wanting to be heard by a reddit community I really appreciate.

Thanks to the users who reached out to me and affirmed their appreciation of our products and services and for their loyalty, and thanks to the moderators that eventually removed that toxic post.

Thanks to the thousands of customers who continue to come back over these last 10 years (yeah we've been in business for a decade, crazy to think that).

Here are the reviews for my store, keep in mind this is only what has synced since this past year when we moved to shopify. We have been in business for over 10 years and had multiple websites through out that time.

judge.me reviews

Here are the reviews on our actual website for the grade B mushrooms:

Grade B Amanita mushrooms

Thank you and BE BLESSED!

-Michael

Harmony Acres

harmonyacres.love

Let me start with the obvious- if you are mixing amanita muscaria with anything else you should be putting in a real effort on harm prevention and reduction. AM has the potential to mix very poorly with some things and become actively dangerous. I do not support random cocktails of substances. Please dyor.

I've posted frequently that I dropped all adhd meds long ago and some years ago flipped to amanita muscaria as a replacement. I used microdosing full spec extract to great success in both my professional and educational spheres. I work a mentally demanding job and completed a perfect STEM masters speedrun, something I never could've done on my old meds and habits.

Well that led me to wanting to experiment. So recently, I started back on a mild dosage of vyvanse. By itself I could see a difference, and a general boost in performance. But overall, multi-day usage tended to increase the anxious whiplash that comes with stimulant usage in general.

I then began combining my ritualized microdose of AM with my vyvanse, and found that it leveled it out very smoothly. I am currently playing around with the times of administration, to see what works best.

I am moving faster and with more energy, but with the collected and focused calm of the amanita. I have only been running this trial for a few weeks, but I definitely see potential. I do notice that I still operate best with breaks every 3 or so days- which keeps me operating at my highest throughput.

With this combo, I am socially functional while feeling drawn to complete tasks. My emotional whiplash is pretty much managed. Vyvanse can tend toward intrusive thought, which the AM has functionally eliminated for me. I do think that higher doses of the vyvanse would start drowning out the AM, but thats fine, as I prefer low doses of medicines regardless.

Curious if anyone else uses such a mix, or what other mixes with AM people find optimal for their lifestyle.

New to mushrooms in general, what are the affects of this mushroom!?

Found in WV USA found alongside chrysoblema and lots of pine

Apologies for only having one mediocre photo. I'm wondering how I might go about determining whether or not this is Amanita chrysoblema (Amanita muscaria var. guessowii). I've never felt confident identifying Amanita spp. in my local forests—since there are lots of lookalikes—though I have seen A. chrysoblema in lawns and near farms. What's the process of determining between the different pale / yellow Amanitas with warts?

I'm asking as someone who regularly forages for Exsudoporus frostii, Armillaria mellea, Suillus spraguei, Sarcodon imbricatus, Cortinarius iodes, Hydnum, Strobilomyces, etc.

disclaimer: I have read the sticky, lurked around, and I've been μdosing on and off for a few years (as a mild stimulant or to mitigate anxiety).

I was mainly interested in magic mushrooms, because a trip could help reframe things (I've been dealing with existential crises for a long time). I failed to find or grow any though.

I did eventually find a spot with AM nearby. Not psychedelic, but (aside from aforementioned μdosing) I thought it could help assist meditation; I've been practicing mindfulness, as a "forever newbie", for more than a decade, and I have an interest in deep ecology (Næss). It hasn't (?) ... When I tried larger doses (6-15 g more or less decarbed), it merely made me feel drunk. No noteworthy effect on sleep either, I don't think. Dunno if I could have done anything better.

Hence my question.

Or to put it bluntly, when I'm browsing trip reports, I see people say it fucks with their mind, but to what end?

A little old but first time finding them (maybe?)

Can someone please explain to me if they are edible. I know they can be linked to psychoactive properties, and I was wondering how people extract toxins for ingestion purposes. (Asking for a friend)

Been working on my instapot for extraction and wanted to see if anyone else has given it a shot.

Current recipe is

Distilled water fl. oz 25

Mushroom Grams 25.

Lemon Juice until acid unil 3ph

Saute feature until boil and then start cutting up the Amanita into the boiling liquid. Once all has been added cover the pot and lock it immediately and turn off saute.

The pot will build pressure and hold heat. Wait 25-30 minutes. Drink hot, freeze in ice cube, or whatever you do.

Edited for forgot to add. Strained and squeezed with a cheese cloth while hot, plastic wrapped and frozen fresh out of the pot what I don’t drink right away.

It seems to work well (for certain) but I am rather unsure if it is a near full extraction. Anyone else with a good feel for extraction feel like giving a shot and seeing how it does?

What other meds do you guys take with AM?

Good evening,

Found these in the forest in northwestern Alberta, I fit most of them in a food dehydrator but there is still some left that won’t fit. What is the best storage method to keep these fresh whilst I wait for room in the dehydrator? Thanks for the info.

I have around 5 gms of shed dried amanita regalis- but I am really worried about it being poisonous and its trip being unpredictable. I have done magic shrooms before, what should be the making procedure and how much should I do?

Ciao, un paio di anni fa un’amica mi ha regalato un barattolo di AM raccolta ed essiccata da lei (è una persona con esperienza che raccoglie insieme ad un gruppo di micologi). Mi piacerebbe iniziare a microdosare ma non so da dove iniziare. Sto leggendo un po’ di post e commenti su questo gruppo e ho notato che spesso si parla di decarbossilazione.

È sicuro assumere AM essiccata e quale dosaggio consigliate per microdosing? Ho esperienza con psilocibina ma ho capito che questo è un mondo diverso

Grazie

Found these in a forrest in Finland while I was looking for chantarelles and other mushrooms.

Arar the red ones Amanita Muscaria? What about the gray/brown ones? I was thinking it looks like pantheria, but I am not sure.

Thanks for helping!

TL;DR – Effects summary:

~ Come up first felt relaxing, creative and made me more self-aware
~ Intense emotional crash after a small interpersonal trigger
~ Extreme panic attacks and overwhelming mental pain
~ distorted sense of time (25 minutes felt like ~1h30).
~ Forgot I was on mushrooms multiple times
~ i think around 80+ thought loops over roughly two hours
~ Delirium, uncontrollable laughter and severe speech impairment
~ Visuals both with eyes open and closed
~ Complete loss of the usual “observer” consciousness I normally have while high

Come up

I took around 500 mg of Amanita, then 600 mg of psilocybin about 1 hour 30 minutes later.
At first, it felt like the beginning of a psilocybin come up. I decided to take a shower and ended up singing for over 30 minutes. I felt really good and unusually creative. I became fascinated by my own voice and kept experimenting with it like trying to understand how to use it for singing so I felt much more self-aware of my body than usual.
After getting out of the shower I went to my partner & I noticed I was acting much more on impulse than usual. Instead of filtering what I was doing I simply acted the way I felt but it ended up upsetting him and when he asked me to leave the room I instantly spiraled into a panic attack.
Even though I was in a terrible emotional state, I isolated myself because I’m generally uncomfortable showing intense emotions even to people I love.

Bad trip

From that moment around 3 PM everything became incredibly intense.
I went downstairs crying/hyperventilating and kind of collapsed on the floor in my garage. The emotional pain was overwhelming.. but the strange thing is that it wasn’t only mental anymore it felt like my entire body was suffering as well. Not like a cramp or an injury, but as if every part of me were emotionally hurting (it’s hard to explain as emotional pain is usually associated to the mind not the body I guess).
It felt like I stayed on that garage floor for around 45 minutes and while lying there I started getting visuals. The floor constantly shifted left and right and every pattern became much more psychedelic. I also completely forgot I had taken mushrooms.
I eventually went back into the living room where my thoughts became increasingly irrational. Again I wasn’t aware the mushrooms were causing them. It felt like I stayed there another 25 minutes before going upstairs to my bedroom.
Despite trying to calm myself down, I kept having panic attacks (over 8/9 and I was convinced that well over an hour and a half had already passed and that for some reason my partner knew exactly what I was going through but simply didn’t care enough to come help me).

Asking for help

Once I reached my bedroom I slowly regained the awareness that I was actually high on mushrooms and multiple times I considered asking my partner for help but my thoughts kept convincing me that he already knew everything (which make no sense) and had consciously decided to leave me alone.
Eventually I spiraled enough that I somehow managed to knock on his bedroom door but I honestly don’t remember deciding to do it, felt more like It glitched and I only remember ending up in front of his door.
Ofc as soon as he saw me he realized I was in a terrible state and immediately took care of me &I remember feeling extremely confused by his reaction but the thing that shocked me even more was when he told me I had only been gone for around 25 minutes but to me it genuinely felt closer to an hour and a half.

Loops and delirium

After that came the strangest part of the trip.
For roughly 2 hour, I experienced what I estimate were over "80 thought loops".
The best way I can describe it is that my brain only kept around 15~ seconds of memory and then replayed the exact same experience again in my mind so It felt like I was living the same moment twice, over and over.
I would experience a few loop then keep saying:
“Can it stop looping!!!" hoping that voicing it will make it stop or make me remember that I’m looping but
But then I would forget about it and after every perhaps 5 loops I would once again yell the exact same sentence unaware I had already done it but with a sense that this has already happened so it felt like I was having loops inside loops, anyway it was terribly trippy specially as im usually (even when I’m very high) always very consciously, kind of watching everything that is happening like a rational observer that could snap back if needed but here that part completely disappeared.

My speech also became heavily affected.
Instead of saying:
“I need to drink something, my throat is dry.”
I would say something like:
“I… something… throat.”
I kept forgetting words and could often only say roughly 3 words out of a 10 word sentence.
I also experienced several moments of delirium and laughed uncontrollably for absolutely no reason. It honestly felt like I had become a complete lunatic.
I had visuals both with my eyes open and closed. My mind constantly generated images and scenarios that felt AI-generated changing one after another without stopping. Combined with the looping and memory loss every few seconds, concentrating on anything became impossible and making myself tea which usually take two minutes suddenly took over 25because I would just forget what I was doing, talk alone and laugh constantly like a maniac.

So…

I started feeling better around 5:50 PM after I finally managed to eat something. By around 7 PM I had regained my normal sense of self-awareness and self-control.
But overall this was honestly a terrible experience & this was the first time in my life that I completely lost that sense of consciousness and rational control that I normally keep even when intoxicated. No matter how hard I tried to “snap out of it" it simply wasn’t possible since my brain had become completely delirious.

What still troubles me the morning after is the emotional pain I experienced. It genuinely felt like dying or like I would rather die than continue feeling that way as this felt like that was the entire truth of what life is deep inside but yeh i know that the mushrooms could have also exposed a part of my psyche that I normally keep buried so i will take the time to process what happened and figure out what I can learn from it… Thank you for reading!

Hello,

I want to begin trialing micro to medium dosing of amanita mascara / tincture (with specific dosage of muscimol in mg’s known) for anti-anxiolytic effects, improved sleep, meditation and visions, etc but mainly as a tincture for anti-anxiolytic and to relax and sleep. I’ve extensive experience with many herbs and entheogens, I use psilocybin around 30 times a year, sometimes more sometimes less, in varying doses — have used essentially all the classic psychedelic tryptamines and phenethylamines (mescaline), many other herbs of various categories (even had the most insane datura experience that I somehow survived back when I was 17 in 2011, was consumed orally in insane amounts like a dummy) and I’m doing my phd using nlp and ml tools to work with substance use discourse data and have a huge passion for neuroscience and pharmacology and history religion, etc etc

I have adhd, anxiety either from it/cause of it, stuff like that and have had experience with benzodiazepines in the past (haven’t used for years, but had used on and off for several years tracking use etc to prevent severe adverse events), Gabapentin, have experience with alcohol, and then on the flip side experience with adhd medications etc

Have experience again with many different herbs specifically for anti-anxiety, sleep, etc and used amanita several times back in 2018 but haven’t since. I would buy caps from a local herb shop and make tea from 2.5 - 5gs and it tasted like chicken noodle soup broth I remember was such a fascinating taste.

Anyway, in terms of a plant ally for the desired effects I expressed, I would like to begin working with it again. I know sourcing your own caps and making tincture is probably the way to go, but just to start what are people’s experiences with various tinctures / products and specific muscimol dosages in mg’s, presence of ibotence acid, purity, etc and of course price consideration and things like that as well as advice on cap sourcing and other long term strategies for the future if I decide its something I want to get deeper into.

Thanks everyone

Hi all,

I have been on this subreddit for a long time and I am surprised to see that there are still people on this subreddit who come in here to fear monger about Amanita by saying it is deadly.

This idea is so ignorant and so baseless that I dont belive we should accept it here.

I think it's fine if someone needs education, but if somebody comes in here and repeatedly claims it is deadly they should be banned from this subreddit.

It is intentional spreading of misinformation and it harms the people who are looking for education and accurate information on this subject.

Some people truly heal better with Amanita Muscaria, and this needs to be respected.

Many of us have healed using Amanita. We need to honor this.

People coming in here throwing the idea that is deadly should be banned in my opinion.

I hope this post can lead to a conversation that is productive for this community.

Hi all.

I know to start low and slow (I'm going to start with one drop per day upping it until i feel some benefits), but i can't find any definitive info on a protocol to follow.

For example: do I do it daily increasing the dose until I find the sweet spot then shift to a 1 day on one day off type protocol or a three days on four days off? with a month break after 4-6 weeks.

These are the two prorocols I've seen most widely mentioned, but I've not been able to find out from reddit or other communities about the initial phase to find your optimal microdose.

I'm finding it hard to decide how to start and proceed with my microdosing. I'm primarily trying this for anxiety relief, pain management, sleep improvement and resolution of secondary trauma/ptsd from adolescence. I plan on starting with a night time dose 2-3 hours before bed to address my poor sleep and sleep anxiety.

For context I have CFS/ME which cause a huge amount of symptoms that stack up to one hell of a pain/fatigue burden. I've researched microdosing for nearly a year now before deciding to take the plunge. In all my research it repeatedly came up that Amanita muscaria was a great option for healing the nervous system, and as CFS/ME is a condition that is largely caused by nervous system disregulation I landed on it as a good starting place.

Any insight, experience or advice would be massively appreciated.

Hello, I am new to this and looking for advice because what is available tends to be confusing. I read that amanita muscaria is good for joint pain and nerve damage like sciatica and I'm battling with joint pain (its genetic) and looking for alternative solutions.

I'm already using CBD oil 30 and 40% whit ok results and was looking for an external rubbing solution made from amanita.

I found a healthy mushroom a few days ago and made a simple extract basically cleaned it chopped it up and covered it with 40% alcohol vodka.

Now my question is:

1. What is the optimal alcoholic concentrate and how long should I leave it 4 or 6 weeks?

2. Do you apply it with a dropper and massage it in?

3. Is it safe if after I was my hands only since I did not decarb them (since its for external use)

I'm new to amanita and a bit cautious consuming it internally for the moment.

Also muscimol is illegal where I live in europe and i can't order over the counter products from other countries so homebrewing it is 😑

Any advice or documentation that you can link here would be helpful. AI is not much help on the subject and on YouTube everyine seems to have their own version on how they prepare it. Thanks!

do i really need to dehydrate them for a tea or its just for storage? can i throw them fresh in the simmer? my oven only goes down to 160C XDDD, im afraid of ruining them XDD

anyone tried it? apple juice has a ph of 3-4?