Part I — The Mushroom
The organism before the myth, and the problems of identity that follow it.
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The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas
Volume I · Psilocybin — The Mushroom, the Molecule & the Mind
A nine-volume audit of the psychedelic literature by Richard L. Pope. It asks one question of every claim: what has actually been demonstrated? Not what has been repeated most often, not what seems plausible because a mechanism can be named, and not what must be false simply because the claim is extraordinary.
Volume I is published as a fixed-layout EPUB ebook, £7.99. The download link is sent by email after checkout. Volume II: LSD and Volume III: DMT are also published, £7.99 each. Volumes I to III are published; Volume IV: Ayahuasca is in production; Volumes V to IX are planned.
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The governing principle
Evidence belongs first to the thing actually studied
A purified molecule does not automatically speak for a mushroom. A selected trial population does not automatically speak for everyone. A receptor does not automatically become an experience, and an experience does not automatically become an ontology. Where a claim moves between those levels, the Atlas asks what earned the transfer.
Scepticism can overreach too. Uncertainty is not evidence of impossibility, and familiarity does not exempt an ordinary explanation from evidence. The aim is neither belief nor debunking: possibilities may enter the room, and then they must show their papers.
The same framework used in The Fungal Evidence Atlas — maturity, direction, replication, claim gap and transfer confidence — carries into this series.
The series
Nine volumes
The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas is canonically a nine-volume series. Volumes I to III are published; Volume IV: Ayahuasca is in production; Volumes V to IX are planned.
Volume I · Published · Ebook available
Psilocybin / Psilocin
The Mushroom, the Molecule & the Mind
Volume II · Published · Ebook available
LSD
Volume III · Published · Ebook available
DMT
Volume IV · In production
Ayahuasca
Volume V · Planned
Mescaline
Volume VI · Planned
MDMA
Volume VII · Planned
Ketamine / Esketamine
Volume VIII · Planned
Ibogaine
Volume IX · Planned
At the Edges of the Psychedelic Map
5-MeO-DMT, Salvia divinorum and salvinorin A, selected research compounds and newer analogues
Volume order reflects the series structure, not a publication schedule. Dates are announced only when confirmed.
Volume I structure
How the psilocybin volume is built
Seven parts, twenty-six chapters, and a closing account of the claims that survived.
Part II — The Molecule
From mushroom to molecule, what else the mushroom contains, and what happens when evidence changes containers.
Part III — The Human Story
Use before the laboratory, discovery and appropriation, and the long silence that followed.
Part IV — The Mind and the Brain
Why there is no single trip, what returns across accounts, and where receptor talk stops explaining experience.
Part V — Does It Work?
When psilocybin actually works, depression on trial, and the therapy inside the drug trial.
Part VI — What Can Go Wrong?
Safety for whom, and the missing denominator behind reassuring harm figures.
Part VII — What Survives?
The experiments worth doing, and the claims that survived the audit.
The author
Richard L. Pope
Author of The Fungal Evidence Atlas and The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas, published by The Spore Patch Ltd. No academic affiliations, qualifications, awards or endorsements are claimed, and none should be inferred.
The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas, Volume I: Psilocybin. First edition, 2026. Published in the United Kingdom by The Spore Patch Ltd as a fixed-layout EPUB ebook. Text copyright Richard L. Pope.
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- Title
- The Psychedelic Evidence Atlas — Volume I: Psilocybin
- Subtitle
- Psilocybin — The Mushroom, the Molecule & the Mind
- Publisher
- The Spore Patch Ltd
- Edition
- First edition, 2026
- Format
- Fixed-layout EPUB ebook
- Price
- £7.99
- File size
- Approximately 77 MB
- Source edition
- 484-page publication master
- Contents
- Cover plus 460 retained interior screens
- ISBN
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- Delivery
- Download link delivered by email after checkout
This volume is an evidence audit. It is not medical, psychological or legal advice, and nothing in it encourages the obtaining, possession or use of any controlled substance.