The Huichol would be proud of my foraging techniques, the crows too. In fact, I often feel like a large crow when I'm foraging in the 'golden field' for mushrooms. The secret to successful foraging like this and spotting the elusive liberty cap (magic mushroom) especially after a dew laden night is to get down on one knee. It is a religious event (insofar as you are at one with Nature and your animal body) and this is perhaps where the idea of genuflecting came from: foraging for wild mushrooms. Once you are closer to the grass your eyes can scan the grassline with ease, and it is here where those very eyes will 'lock on' to a cluster. Whilst picking that cluster the eyes are still roving. Soon, you find yourself in that joyful situation of continually picking mushroom after mushroom once the eyes have become accustomed to their new way of looking. These are your crow eyes, eyes that see subtlety within subtlety, eyes that can pick out a two centimetre tall camouflaged liberty cap at fifty feet. These crow eyes can now be added to your jaguar legs and your owl ears, so that soon you will have earned the respect of all the wild. And you feel that buzz of aboriginality.
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