Word: mushroomer
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...miracle an external event occurring in the real, objective world? Or is it a sort of hallucination, an event of the imagination? During the '60s, that hallucinatory decade, the writer Carlos Castaneda sought illumination with his teacher Don Juan through the use of peyote, Jimson-weed and mushroom dust. Drug miracles: Castaneda found himself having conversations with a bilingual coyote and looking at a 100-ft.-tall gnat with spiky, tufted hair and drooling jaws...
...Mount Weather since 1968 is Bernard ("Bud") Gallagher. A former Air Force bomber pilot who was shot down over Denmark and held captive by Germany's dreaded Gestapo during World War II, Gallagher flew through the mushroom clouds of 12 nuclear tests in 1952 and 1953 to record radiation levels. He later went to the White House, serving in the Office of Emergency Preparedness. Now 69, Gallagher is described as a superpatriot and a student of such dire scenarios as the postattack consequences of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare. Says Becton: "He's a solid citizen...
...perhaps you'll find yourself in an herbalist's lair, a shop like the one run by Ron Teeguarden in Venice, Calif., crammed full of respectable-looking people seeking Astragalus, said by the Chinese to strengthen the immune system, or the prized Reishi mushroom, purported to help counter the effects of chemotherapy. Teeguarden, 44, who spent years in Asia studying herbalism, offers private counseling for $35 a session to clients who include John McEnroe and Lisa Bonet. And while you're in the neighborhood of California, you may even wander over to one of several Ayurvedic centers, where therapists ! will...
...Cream of mushroom soup...
...hours, they got their answer. Nearby Mount Pinatubo, after sleeping quietly for more than 600 years, suddenly erupted in a series of explosions that shot plumes of steam and ash as much as 30 km (20 miles) into the sky. Debris rained down on surrounding villages, and a giant mushroom cloud was visible 100 km (60 miles) away in Manila...