Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats - Stamets on truffles as a natural product
The long-awaited new book by mycologist Paul Stamets will be published in June 2025: Psilocybin Mushrooms in Their Natural Habitats. A richly illustrated guide that shows how psilocybin-containing mushrooms and truffles are found in the wild, and how their effects stem from Mother Nature's overall picture.
Personal message
For Hans, founder of Microdosing XP, this book is more than a publication. He received a personally signed copy from Stamets himself, with a message that is significant:
For Hans,
Thank you for your leadership, sacrifice and support.
- Paul
A short gesture, but with great significance.
Stamets' view: truffles are more than psilocybin
In the book, Stamets emphasises what Microdosing XP has been propagating for years: truffles are a natural product. Not a synthetic capsule with one active ingredient, but a complex interplay of psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin, norbaeocystin and other bioactive compounds.
He convincingly shows that truffles derive their power from the entourage effect, the way all these substances together affect the body and mind. This is a fundamental difference from how the pharmaceutical industry usually works, where they focus on one isolated active substance.
More than just truffles
Stamets also links his insights to other medicinal fungi, such as Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus). This mushroom contains unique compounds such as hericenones and erinacins, which, among other things, stimulate neurogenesis and contribute to cognitive health. Combined with microdosing truffles, Lion's Mane is often used in protocols such as the Stamets Stack, an approach that prioritises natural synergy.
Hans and Paul: shared mission, different paths
The personal dedication to Hans in the book is no accident. It is the result of years of connection and a shared mission: to make natural awareness tools accessible to a wide audience with integrity.
Hans does this through Microdosing XP, with education, guidance and a strong emphasis on safety, set and setting. Paul does this globally, with his unique combination of scientific knowledge and love of fungi.
What binds them together is more than just the active ingredient psilocybin, as the pharmaceutical industry approaches it. Their shared mission revolves around recognising the entire natural system, and the healing power of connection - not isolation.
Truffles as a natural product
Instead of reducing truffles to a psychedelic trip or a single active ingredient, Stamets and Hans show them for what they really are: living organisms that arise from interaction with soil, climate and ecosystem. Their effects are biological, emotional and spiritual - always in context.
Microdosing with truffles is not a quick fix, but a subtle process. A way of realigning yourself with your environment, your rhythm and your consciousness. It is precisely in that nuance that their potential lies.
A tangible gesture
The moment Hans receives the book is telling. A parcel from the US. A personal message. A friendship confirmed in ink. It shows that true recognition does not shout, but whispers, with impact.
For Hans, it is confirmation that his work matters. That truffles, if approached with respect, can help people find themselves again. And that even on a global level, people like Stamets see, support and appreciate that work.
Where can you buy our truffles?
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Small in size. Big in impact. This is how awareness works from the inside out.
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