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Peter Gorman's adventures are recorded in this quasi-memoir "Magic Mushrooms of India" and other fantasy stories. Gorman is best known for his work in Amazon. In the past thirty years, he has spent most of his time there searching for rare plants and contacting the shaman. The shaman has exposed him to ayahuasca and other strange things. Hallucinogens.

Gorman first wrote articles about Peru in "High Times" when he was a staff writer and editor in the 1980s and 1990s. (We met there in the late 1980s.) Several of these stories first appeared in "High Times"-he visited India to find mushrooms and bhang, and visited Morocco on the kif trail.

You must know who Gorman is to understand how he got here. I suggest starting with the "New York" chapter in the book, reading to the end, and then reading the first half.

The story of Gorman in New York is very interesting-during a swimming competition and a big argument in Greenwich Village, his pants fell off. Gorman grew up in a large Irish-American family that included artists and police officers. He went to Woodstock, but it was not a pleasant one, so he only used a few words to describe the experience.

The two gringos in the Katama hash area are almost narcotics signs, but Gorman somehow managed to penetrate into the tightly protected area. 

In the hilarious title story, Gorman ate a dozen mushrooms because his marijuana guide took him to a tourist trap, and they ended up in the jungle. "We were walking on a shrubbery trail strewn with paper and beer cans, less than 50 feet from the tropical rain forest nearly 9,000 feet away, but he did not go in," wrote Gorman, a guide on the Kodaikanal Pillar . "I didn't speak any more and rushed into the shallows despite his protests. I filled my lungs, ran through the dense bushes, stuck my clothes and hair to the vines and branches, and rolled onto the clumps of trees. On the root, stopped at the foot of the mountain. A small temple without ropes to investigate cracks."

Gorman and a photographer barely survived a trip to the Rif Mountains in Morocco, where most of the world's hash is grown and manufactured. The two gringos in the Katama area are almost narcotics signs, but Gorman somehow managed to infiltrate the tightly protected area. They come out on the skin of their teeth.

Although these stories are somewhat outdated, they are still good reads. The last three chapters on Peru bring readers more up-to-date information. In the early 1990s, Gorman began to travel to Amazon regularly, when he was living in New York. He met his wife Chepa there, and raised her two children and one child in New York before they moved to Texas separately and eventually divorced. For the past two decades, Gorman has led ayahuasca tours in Iquitos and beyond. This book does not tell about his many bites and skin infections (his ayahuasca story is told in "Ayahuasca in My Blood"), although he did recount in detail the jungle feast he once supervised (Gore Man is also a chef). This is like the story of Fitzcarraldo.

When the well-stocked ship was parked by the truck in the middle of the Amazon River, Gorman jumped in. "Of course, no one likes to jump into the Amazon River. We spend time trying to come up with other solutions," he admitted. "No, finally Hector and I took off their pants and shoes and climbed to the river. I put my hands on the top of the aluminum boat hull and held life tightly."

Peter Gorman, 71, is the author of three fascinating books and the theme of the 2019 documentary "More Joy Less Pain," which is a long one. And strange travel. 

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