I had published all my work in four papers by 1969. And I am never interested in making money by exploiting or restricting others. This is unusual, especially after I rejoined the psychedelic movement only about six years ago when the field was filled with ‘goldrush’ entrepreneurs, especially one group was first a non-probit organization getting free advice and services from well-known experts but then went for-profit and got most of the typical moneyed investors. They are all sticking to synthetic psychedelics and seem not to be aware of the vicious cycle (VC) of synthetic drug therapy that I have been talking about for years.
During most of my long independent career I have not dealt with psychedelics. And I was only employed fulltime for less than six years by two companies. I came back to magic mushrooms after retirement because I reactivated my membership in LinkedIn to try to promote my book, My Life & Rollercoaster Career, self-published in 2018 (CreateSpace/Amazon), which is my memoir and my Newsletter (1996-2004) combined. It did not have anything on psychedelics, except a short description of my PhD research when isolating norbaeocystin and I spilled the concentrated extract ready for crystallization. When back on LinkedIn, I quickly noticed the chatter online about psilocybin and magic mushrooms. I promptly forgot my book. But I found out one key thing that prompted me to eventually form my PBN Naturals Worldwide Consortium. Incidentally, norbaeocystin is the closest analog to serotonin and psilocybin. After it is dephosphorylated, it becomes 4-hydroxytryptamine, a nonidentical twin of 5-hydroxytryptamine (=serotonin). Since serotonin is a hormone and neurotransmitter present throughout our body, its function as a serotonin substitute has never been studied.
I grew my fungal mycelium in different vessels, flasks of different sizes on shakers and eventually in a home-make 5-gallon Carboy fermenter with aeration. The mycelia all grew into little pellets up to maybe 0.5 cm in diameter. I collected the little pellets by screening or filtering them through a sieve or coarse filter, rinsing them with distilled water and freeze-drying them. Then, I’d do my isolation of their psychedelic compounds. All the time I was working with growing and extracting the fungal mycelia, I never realized my process would produce a truly clean and natural mycelia containing PBN with NO synthetic contaminants from toxic fossil fuels, or new unknown chemicals from biotech conversions that would require isolation and extraction from synthetic brand-new chemicals with which we have no history of interactions.