Register for Course | SFSU Class Search | 1 Credit | CRN 5953
Fall Semester 2026
WHEN: 12:00pm-1:40pm Fridays
WHERE: Health & Social Sciences (HSS) Building, Room 349
Grow your own entheogenic mushrooms and plants. Perform extractions and isolate natural products. Study mycology, botany, and ethnopharmacology.
Conduct research and build practical skills in your discipline.
Collaborate with experienced students, scholars, and scientists.
Several guest lectures from experts and optional field trips.
Humans symbiose with plants, animals, and fungi; some produce Entheogenic compounds
that invoke subjectively mystical visions and experiences.
This course will teach you how to grow entheogenic organisms.
Hands-on activities with live specimens. Students will develop procedures for
entheogen care and propagation. Students will perform extraction procedures
to isolate natural products. Procedures will be documented and released to the public.
Some topics covered:
Entheogens: Ayahuasca, Shrooms, Peyote, Salvia, Iboga, Morning Glory, San Pedro, Weed, Sonoran Desert Toad
Compounds: Salvinorin A, Ibogaine, LSA, Psilocybin, THC, Mescaline, DMT
Class is open to all people. We are a public exploratory research group.
| Meeting Schedule: Procedures & Lecture Notes |
|---|
| I Poisons & Potions |
| 08/28 Nightshades: Tobacco, Morning Glory, Datura, Potato |
| 09/04 Amanita muscaria & Terpenes: Coffea + Cannabis |
| 09/18 β-carbolines & MAOI: Peganum harmala + Iboga |
| 09/25 DMT I: Ayahuasca & Allies |
| II Oaxacatober |
| 10/02 LSA: Morning Glory & Ergot |
| 10/09 DMT II: Mimosa hostillis |
| 10/16 DMT III: Mushrooms |
| 10/23 WTF: Salvia divinorum |
| III Endangered to Synthetic |
| 10/30 DMT IV: More Tryptamines + Toads |
| 11/06 Mescaline: San Pedro & Peyote |
| 11/13 Shulgin's Phenethylamines |
| 11/20 Kratom, Kava, Kanna, Khat, Kola, Coca |
| 11/27 Indigenous People's Week |
| 12/04 Penultimate Procedures |
| 12/11 Grand Finale |