About Me
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Andy Letcher
- A writer and a folk musician, Andy has a D.Phil in Ecology from Oxford University and a PhD in the Study of Religion from Winchester University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed 'Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom' and has published a range of articles and academic papers on subjects as diverse as psychedelics, paganism, bardism, environmental protest, fairies, shamanism and evolution. A modern day troubadour, he is the ex-frontman of Telling the Bees.
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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta... -
News that the psilly season is officially underway (with early reports that this might prove to be a bumper year) means it's a good time... -
Owing to the vagaries of genetics I have rather limited options for playing with pogonotrophy. My facial hair grows naturally into the d'... -
Some people hate the bagpipes. Fair enough. But when they tell me this I remind them that in all probability it's the Great Highland B... -
At last I'm able to give you a bit more information about my new musical project, Wod , about which I've been a bit hesitant to say ... -
There were outbreaks of wodulation in Glastonbury last weekend as Wod supported the fabulously funky Green Angels for a French and Breton b... -
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that my name, and my face, are attached to a new tarot deck, the English Magic Tarot . The Fo...
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Shroom: ten years on
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
Popular Posts
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One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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News that the psilly season is officially underway (with early reports that this might prove to be a bumper year) means it's a good time...
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The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that my name, and my face, are attached to a new tarot deck, the English Magic Tarot . The Fo...
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At Breaking Convention I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a panel on 'the future of psychedelic music', hosted admir...
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Some people hate the bagpipes. Fair enough. But when they tell me this I remind them that in all probability it's the Great Highland B...
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I'm just embarking on a new piece of research about the Liberty Cap, Psilocybe semilanceata . I hope it will be published next year. How... -
In 1993, when I was still a whippersnapper in my twenties, I managed to get myself invited to the Secret McKenna Workshop , organised by the...
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