Have a Good Trip, Eugenia Bone
Have a Good Trip, Eugenia Bone
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Have a Good Trip
Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience

Author: Eugenia Bone

Narrator: Eugenia Bone

Unabridged: 9 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2024


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

From a much-loved expert and popular science writer comes this straight-from-the-trenches report on how and why folks from all walks of life are using magic mushrooms to enhance their lives.

Interest in psychedelic mushrooms has never been greater – or the science less definitive. Popular science writer and amateur mycologist Eugenia Bone reports on the state of psychedelics today, from microdosing to heroic trips, illustrating how “citizen science” and anecdotal accounts of the mushrooms’ benefits are leading the new wave of scientific inquiry into psilocybin.

With her signature blend of first-person narrative and scientific rigor, Bone breaks down just how the complicated cocktail of psychoactive compounds is thought to interact with our brain chemistry. She explains how mindset and setting can impact a trip – whether therapeutic, spiritual/mystical, or simply pleasure seeking – and vividly evokes the personalities and protocols that populate the tripping scene, from the renegade “’Noccers” of Washington who merrily disperse magic mushroom spores around Seattle, to the indigenous curanderas who conduct traditional ceremonies in remote Mexican villages.

Throughout she shares her journey through the world of mushrooms, cultivating her own stash, grappling with personal challenges, and offering the insights she gleaned from her experiences. For both seasoned trippers and the merely mushroom curious, Have a Good Trip offers a balanced, entertaining, and provocative look at this rapidly evolving cultural phenomenon.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

About Eugenia Bone

Eugenia Bone is a food and nature writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, and the BBC Science Focus. A former president of the NY Mycological Society and the author of Mycophilia, she appeared as an expert in the documentary Fantastic Fungi and has deep ties throughout the mushroom community. Bone is also an award-nominated cookbook author and chef. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on October 05, 2024

Many thanks to Flatiron Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of Eugenia Bone’s great new book Have a Good Trip: Exploring the Magic Mushroom Experience. Bone’s book follows some other more recent books detailing a growing acceptance and use of psychedelics in the general popula......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on January 14, 2025

Pretty much exactly what it’s advertised to be: a lotta info about shrooms! Learned a lot but didn’t feel overloaded......more

Goodreads review by Dan on September 14, 2024

My thanks to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for an advance copy of this book that seeks to instruct people on the proper use of psychedelic mushrooms, and how to look past the hype of what it might hold for the future of mental health, and focus on what it can do today. As a person who has dealt with......more

Goodreads review by Ethan on November 09, 2024

Over the past sixty years there have been waves of interest in magic mushrooms and psychedelic experiences. For most of this period, possession and distribution of such things has been frowned upon by the legal authorities. Many people have claimed to have enjoyed profoundly moving experiences which......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on January 04, 2025

I picked this up after watching mycologist Dr. Gordon Walker do a live read on social media, which resulted in a temporary shadow ban on TikTok. I was curious about how just reading from a book on talking about the neuroscience of a certain chemical during a live could result in disciplinary action.......more


Quotes

"Bone serves up an eye-opening examination of the science and benefits of psilocybin mushrooms . . . The elegant blend of scientific research, stories of individual mushroom users, and Bone’s own experiences with the drug make for a study that’s as eclectic as it is stimulating. This will expand readers’ minds."
Publishers Weekly

“Beautifully composed, Eugenia Bone’s book is a trip in itself.”
—Suzanne Simard, PhD, forest ecologist and author of Finding the Mother Tree

“Eugenia Bone does it again! She takes the reader on a deep dive into the rapidly emerging practice of psilocybin use with a balanced view toward benefits, potential pitfalls, and ever-expanding applications. I unabashedly recommend this book for all those contemplating or currently engaged with psilocybin mushrooms.”
—Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running

“Finally a book that offers more answers than questions about the contemporary relationship between humans and ancient sacred mushrooms. Whether you’re an experienced traveler or new to the journey, Eugenia takes us on a fun and fantastic much-needed trip.”
—Giuliana Furci, founding director of the Fungi Foundation

“Eugenia Bone provides excellent and sage insights on every step of the psychedelic journey, from sourcing mushrooms through to dosing and even integrating the experiences afterward, all illustrated with some excellent trippers’ tales. Everyone from seasoned freaks to the newly psy-curious will find something of interest here.”
—Andy Letcher, PhD, author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and senior lecturer at the University of Exeter

“As someone who has had an uncountable number of glorious trips and also has lost their damn mind, I’ve been waiting for a more balanced articulation of this psychedelic renaissance. With Have a Good Trip’s focus on accuracy over hype or hysteria, we might not only avoid a trip to the psych ward but even make the most out of our experiences.”
—Shane Mauss, comedian and host of the Here We Are podcast

"The sixties were a marvelous opening for those of us who survived tuning in to magic mushrooms, turning on and dropping out for a good chunk of our youth. But there were casualties along the way who never reintegrated. With the current psychedelic renaissance, Eugenia Bone's wise, witty, and scientifically grounded Have a Good Trip is a much-needed analysis of how some people open that illuminating door and not just survive but thrive."
—Art Goodtimes, five-term Green Party county commissioner in Colorado and poet-in-residence of the Telluride Mushroom Festival