H ave you ever taken psychedelic drugs? The thought of them always terrified me – to lose control of my mind, to confront the subconscious. It’s like looking in our kitchen cupboard. What is in there? Who knows? Best not to find out. No, thank you. Not today.

But about six weeks ago, I was invited to cover a “luxury mushroom retreat” for business executives in British Columbia.

I assume it must be some sort of cooking course, possibly involving foraging. It’s an odd idea, certainly, but business executives and tech bros do all sorts of things on the west coast of America if they think it will give them an edge. They put butter in their coffee, they drink “raw” water from springs, they listen

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