Shroomies: How Mushrooms Cracked My Heart Open-and What They Can Teach Us About Healing

An in-depth exploration of psilocybin and its resurgence, use, impact, and potential. Once upon a time, John Biggs thought mushrooms were for hippies and ravers.Now he calls them medicine. In Shroomies: Our Search for Happiness Through Modern Mycology, tech journalist and unapologetic skeptic John Biggs trades Silicon Valley for psilocybin.What begins as a personal experiment to escape depression becomes a sweeping exploration of the psychedelic renaissance-how mushrooms are transforming minds, mending trauma, and redefining what it means to be human. From underground retreats in Brooklyn to cutting-edge neuroscience labs and legal mushroom clinics, Biggs chronicles a cultural revolution in real time.Along the way, he meets grieving widows, veterans with PTSD, and burnt-out tech founders-all drawn to a strange little fungus promising something antidepressants can’t deliver: meaning. Smart, funny, and unexpectedly moving, Shroomies bridges memoir and reportage with a cynic’s wit and a s