…pseudonym for John Mann. He died before I ever had the opportunity to interview him. There is Rich G., who is Richard Gutierrez, the discoverer and arguably inventor of the penis envy mushroom. There is Tariq Peterson, another man of mystery who wrote one…

…was maybe involved, McKenna was involved, and then there was one other person named Rich G., a pseudonym for a mysterious mycologist named Richard Gutierrez. It was clear what I had to do. I had to find Rich G, and I had to ask him personally where…

…genetic manipulation that otherwise would have been impossible. And that's a story. I looked everywhere for Rich G. I called every Richard Gutierrez in Seattle. Couldn't find him. And if I did, I doubt he would have talked to me. I never stopped. Every…

…time I encountered somebody who might know something about mushrooms, any elder in the mushroom community, I would say, do you know Richard Gutierrez? And if they did, they would often say, sorry, he's not going to talk to you. but I didn't give up. In…

…arrived at Pipe Place, I said that I was interested in the history of the penis envy strain and I wanted to speak with Richard Gutierrez. The person working at the counter gave me a knowing look and they said they couldn't help me. I asked if I could…

…at the counter gave me a knowing look and they said they couldn't help me. I asked if I could leave a note for Richard Gutierrez. They said they couldn't stop me, and so I did. Apparently, he came in moments after I had left, but he never called me.…

…nothing about penis envy, but it was clear. That was it. The first images of penis envy published in a book by Richard Gutierrez. He was clearly the creator. In his 1976 book, he described selling an Amazon Cubensis strain. This is supposedly derived from…

…People keep improving it, and I love that. But I yearned to understand the origins of the penis envy, and I knew that Richard Gutierrez was the only person who could tell me where it came from. finally i met someone who knew him a family member and…

…God, that believe in the supernatural. These two belief systems seem incompatible to me, but clearly that's not the case. Richard Gutierrez is a prime example. He's somebody who has all sorts of supernatural beliefs, remote viewing, He has telekinesis. He…

…lab at the University of Washington, studying yeast replication with Leland Hartwell. And believe it or not, the research that Richard Gutierrez was doing with Hartwell truly was the basis of a Nobel Prize because this was research that was used to…

…helper. He was bright, enthusiastic, and a wonderful person to have in the lab. I didn't tell Dr. Hartwell that Richard Gutierrez invented one of the most notorious strains of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, one that looks like a penis, but I would like…

…even a mushroom with a urinary meatus. A penis envy strain with a penis hole. Astonishing. I had fantasies. I imagined Gutierrez working in the darkness for years. breeding strain after strain, burning the ones that didn't look sufficiently like a penis.…

…but apparently it doesn't need to be, because he was tremendously successful using this technique. I think it was my fascination with Gutierrez that led me to the Pollock story and so many other interesting stories in my career. And so I feel very close…