Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.

All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

Who shall it be if not us? Yes.

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So I thought we might try something a little different

with this solo show, and that's

to go over a ritual procedure, I guess, or a structure that may be useful to some of you sort of based on a bit of experience and I wasn't sure where I was going to put this because I needed

to kind of co-hear it into a sequence for myself anyway and I wasn't sure where it was going to go and I said actually I'll just do it as a solo show.

Might be useful for people so it's a we're talking about a ritual procedure for

approaching the mushroom as you know what I think she is a vastly ancient

alien intelligence exploring the cosmos by interacting with various nervous systems

along the way.

But the show isn't just about mushrooms.

You can also think of it as an framework for a sort of, I don't know, animist extra dimensional

diplomacy if you will.

But we should probably get the legal stuff out of the way first, which is,

this episode goes out to the handful of listeners that live in jurisdictions where Silasibin is legal only.

Good, so that's that done and I guess I want to break it down into sections.

So the first section is sort of the before and then we'll move

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