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Subject: very interesting brewing technique

I met a local man here named Donald Teeter who

wrote a book on his discovery of an amazing and easy
way to cultivate Soma mycelium (a. muscaria) in a
wooden or ceramic bowl.

He just puts a dried bit of muscaria in the bowl with

some sterile grape juice and brown rice.

The mycelieum then invades the walls of the pot!

So now he has a perpetual living Grail that whenever

he puts sterile grape juice in it, in 12-24 hours it
is transformed into POWERFUL amanita wine! And its
much gentler than the dry mushroom, really a distinct
experience, as I can now vouch for.

His book on it is self published, little known...

the 'beaker culture' people were probably doing just

this 5,000 years ago....

a. muscaria cannot be cultivated to fruiting body by

any known means, but its mycelium is hardy and easy as
bread mold to grow....

one of Don's pots has been alive now for 7 years....

Extra notes:

lumar: the amanita mycelium has a distinct look and smell

lumar: and requires little in the way of sterile technique
lumar: the chapters in 'sacred secret' go over this

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m: cool, i'm just making sure.. so there's no risk of dangerous molds?

lumar: its so antibiotic that it will keep milk sweet for 48 hours
lumar: its pretty hard to mistake mold for mycelium
lumar: and mold never stays white
lumar: mycelium will stay white unless exposed to sun

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m: how does a completed bowl look like?

lumar: then it silvers
lumar: it has silvery white fuzz all over it
lumar: and smells like apple cider
lumar: read the book . its really throuroigh and don has been doing this 20 years
lumar: if you clean the pot beforehand with boiling water and boil the grape juice no problms
lumar: you have to be really careful to find rice or grain with no anti fungal added
lumar: no rye at all either
m: ya rye would be bad.
lumar: dont seal it off either the bowl needs air - i jjust put clean paper towels over it
m: ya that's what Don was mentionning in his book.
lumar: the mycelia is visible inside 12 hours

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lumar: it grows really really fast

lumar: i used boiled applejuice this time and parakeet pellets
lumar: this worked better than grape juice and wheat berries
m: oh ya?
m: so you think you can carry this over the border?
m: and they won't mind?
lumar: i dont need too, all i need is powdered dry mushroom to start again
lumar: this one is for someone here, a gift
lumar: but if i cleaned the bowl out after a few weeks, and the mycelium invaded the coconut shell, it
would look clean and empty
lumar: until food was added then the m. will come out of the walls and regrow

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m: will there be a time when you don't need to sterilize the food? and it won't grow pennicilin?
lumar: i am not sure of that, but when it grows to where it has used up all the food, then one dries it out,
then grinds, then soaks in grape juice for 48 hours
lumar: the filtrate from this is supposed to grow in new sterile food back into mycelium
lumar: and taking a small part of the undried mycelium into the new food too...
lumar: at least i know i have no weird mold
lumar: it would grow on the control food
lumar: and it wouldn't grow the same way twice
lumar: its identical
lumar: always appears on the third day
lumar: it doesn't like light at all
m: cool. Mold and fungus are such strange entities.
m: just like mogwais

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lumar: so i tacked on a paper towel over it

lumar: and i only lift it a little bit to peel
lumar: peek
lumar: keep the flies out too
lumar: used thumbtacks
lumar: light damages it and weakens it and turns it silvery white

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m: and then i'll email you the results.

lumar: i put Bragg's aminos in the food
lumar: put
m: no way really?
lumar: yeah, its hard to find foods for it that dont have anti fungals in it
lumar: no
lumar: any preserveratives will kill the mycelieum
m: good point.
m: ya anything that's got sodium in it.
lumar: sodium isnt a problem
lumar: bht is
lumar: most grains have bht
m: what's bht?
lumar: butylayed hydroxy toluene
lumar: lated
lumar: its in everything including most hippie health food grains
lumar: so i am using parakeet vegetable pellets and braggs aminos
lumar: parakeet's die from anti fungals
lumar: only certified organic rice is free of preservatives
lumar: and sometimes not even then
lumar: anyway, the bird food and aminos works really well, along with apple juice for moisture
lumar: i boil it all together

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