Psymposia's video: The Church of Psilomethoxin and its Sacrament: In the Founders Own Words

On April 12, Samuel Williamson and Alexander Sherwood published a preprint analysis on ChemRxiv titled, "Fungi Fiction: Analytical Investigation into the Church Of Psilomethoxin's Alleged Novel Compound Using UPLC-HRMS." Upon analyzing a sample of what the Church was selling as sacrament, the researchers concluded that their results “strongly indicate that the material distributed by the Church of Psilomethoxin does not contain the novel compound psilomethoxin (or 5-MeO-psilocybin) as claimed.” The paper concludes by stating that the Church’s “claims of producing a novel compound, psilomethoxin, by incorporating 5-MeO-DMT into the substrate of cultivated Psilocybe mushrooms are more akin to ‘fungi fiction’ than reality,” asserting, “our analysis revealed that the material distributed by the Church primarily contains known tryptamines, specifically psilocybin and psilocin, with a trace amount of baeocystin.” In other words, the Church appears to be sending plain old cubensis mushrooms through the mail—at a markup of $50-$250/oz compared to the street prices reported by Erowid.