We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of the much anticipated

website by the team at Psilver Linings To Long White Clouds; New Zealand's most comprehensive psychoactive-fungi foraging harm reduction website - finally here after 3 years of development with community input!

With over 40 pages of harm reduction information, this much-needed community resource allows us to go a little deeper with advice than the level that social media platforms currently restrict us to.

Discover species descriptions, captivating photo albums, and the latest harm reduction info on foraging and dosing psychoactive fungi in NZ.

About Psilver Linings:

Psilver Linings is New Zealand's most informative and educational, harm reduction site created to help local foragers educate themselves better, and to safely identify psychoactive mushroom species in NZ.

On their website, you will find the definitive record of NZ Psilocybes.

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They take pride in having the most extensive and thorough database of psychoactive mushroom species currently confirmed in NZ, including amazing albums filled with stunning pictures to go with each species showing the diverse variation in phenotype of each species and varied habitats that each are found in, along with information on look-alike species that are often found cohabiting alongside active mushrooms in NZ.

The Psilver Linings organisation aims to reduce the harm caused by misidentification and misuse of psychoactive mushrooms, by way of delivering the most up-to-date and current knowledge available, concerning psychoactive mushroom species in New Zealand.

Endeavouring to do their best to stay abreast of new findings in the mycological world, concerning active species in NZ, and delivering this information as soon as such findings arise to their attention.

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Their secondary aim is to help gain awareness around the benefits of Psilocybin/Psilocin, and its medicinal/therapeutic uses, and keep up to date on current studies that are taking place worldwide, along with their findings, to help break the stigma attached to these compounds.

This is so that the people in need of these treatments the most, might someday be able to gain access to these miraculous medicines provided to us by Mother Nature, in a safe and regulated manner. 

A word from Beau Ewen at Psilver Linings:

I started my journey with magical fungi 25 years ago. It's been a rollercoaster of a journey where I've been privy to many different kinds of usage and ideologies from different circles.

It took some time for me but I eventually found healing within, with the help of certain tools.

I'm a big advocate for plant and fungi medicine as powerful tools, but I'm an even bigger advocate of introspection, retrospective processing, shadow work, sitting with our feelings and facing the hardships that we turn from the hardest, front on, with communication and openness.

I'm an even BIGGER advocate for harm reduction which is where most of my work in the community is done these days.

3 years ago a group of like-minded individuals started the Psilver Linings to Long White Clouds Facebook group with an intent of spreading awareness of the benefits of fungi medicine, but, with a primary focus on harm reduction,

From our Previous Newsletter:

An Arden University student in New Zealand is completing a masters is conducting a research study you should look into if you currently or have micro or macro-dosed in the past.

A note from Natalie:

'Kia ora, my name is Natalie, and I am a kiwi who is doing research for the completion of a MSc Psychology through Arden University in the UK. I am interested in the knowledge that those who have past/historical experience of self-medicating with psilocybin for any type of mental distress under the umbrella term of depression have through personal experience.

I am currently looking for participants for a study investigating changes in subjective wellbeing and quality of life for those self-medicating with psilocybin in an Aotearoa New Zealand community sample. Participants need to have a past/historical experience of self-medicating with psilocybin for any type of mental distress under the umbrella term of depression. 

As many of you will be aware, there is a growing amount of research being conducted in the scientific community that there may be a relationship between psilocybin use and symptoms associated with depression. This study is open to New Zealand residents over the age of 18. The study should take approximately 15-20m to complete. 

Your contribution to this research is greatly appreciated and will provide information that is intended to help in the understanding of an underground movement that has arisen from a necessity for alternative solutions to symptoms of depression.

Data collected will contribute to the limited amount of information on self-medicating with psilocybin for depression within the community in Aotearoa.

All participants will remain anonymous. 

Happy to answer any questions '

These types of studies are crucial steps forward in progressing towards clinical trials. Please get involved!

Click button below to go to the experiment or if you have any questions, contact Natalie at natalieesmith7@gmail.com

Additionally, we were also so excited to share with you a beautiful and long awaited article by Feilidh Dwyer at the NZ Drug Foundation which has just been released on their website and to us!

A Psychedelic Renaissance? 'Blue Honey' and what's next for psilocybin in Aotearoa: Inspired by their own experiences with psilocybin's "healing and transformative effects," Zach and Michaela wrote the book to share knowledge, provide a non-judgmental space for similar stories, and challenge negative perceptions of psilocybin as dangerous. They use the abbreviation 'MCP,' short for mushrooms containing psilocybin, to counter what they see as stigmatising associations with terms like 'magic mushrooms.'