…And really, the only person who seemed to have anything close to first-hand knowledge was a mushroom fanatic named John Allen, a.k.a. M.J. Schreumer, a.k.a. Mushroom John. Mushroom John is infamous in the psychedelic mushroom community. He is a graphomaniac…

…you would get a response. What I came to learn was that Mushroom John's eagerness to communicate was genuine. complicated. John Allen actually misled me intentionally by his own admission. And at that time, I was more credulous, less critical, less skeptical…

…before the name had ever been used publicly But even that book was impossible to find. The only known copy was in the possession of John Allen, and he refused to show it to me. I went to John Allen's apartment to plead with him, to ask him to let me…