Month: July 2026

Posted on

July 4, 2026, post.  To me, it’s common sense to continue to speak out against our nonchalance regarding the vicious cycle (VC) of our drug therapy using toxic synthetic drugs.  Most Americans don’t see the harm and ramifications of this VC (drug therapy), even though I have described it many times over decades.  It has been monetized and is a fountain of gold for drug makers and their interdependent associates (incl. insurance agents, crooked politicians, & advertisers), but a major cause of the poor health  and shortened lifespan of Americans.   

The only way to remove the greed element from this VC is to make a few key changes to our no-longer democratic system.  Limit Congressional members’ terms to maximal 6 years for congressmen and 12 years for senators, with  no special perks or free healthcare for themselves unless fellow citizens are included.  Members of Congress (of both parties) have been too cozy with moneyed groups that breed corruption when they stay in Congress for too long.  Some, like the head of the executive branch and his family, have been openly doing personal business with our money resources, hugely benefiting themselves and ignoring the welfare of most Americans.   The way it is now, too many congressmen and senators are themselves too corrupt to speak out, hence letting the other branch(es) continue to do their dirty work to enrich themselves.

I believe if we have limited terms for congressmen and senators, there will no longer be tax-free income for billionaires, nor further money-making openly by government officials and their families using our government resources to enrich themselves. That may start us on the correct path to a real democratic society more like that of the Scandinavians and Canadians.   We have arrived at our current nondemocratic status (like a banana republic in bygone days) only within the recent decade or two.  In my opinion, when our Congress has no term limits, it is  prone to be corrupted by money and power.    If not for this main reason, I don’t understand why we let narcissistic or selfish people control our nation’s finances, unless most of our Congress members are corrupt and have inch-thick skin, as they are now?  I feel sorry for our grandchildren’s generation and theirs.

Posted on

July 2, 2026, post.  I doubt I would have discovered the psilocybin analogs if I had not used TLC for my analytical work.    Just consider the fact that it has been almost 60 years since I got my PhD from Michigan, no one has succeeded in growing Psilocybe baeocystis or any other psychedelic mushroom and produced mycelia that contained psilocybin and its analog(s). 

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.