I sent Hamilton Morris 16 x 250 mg capsules of our Church of the Sacred Synthesis’s sacrament in May of 2022 for testing almost a year before the Promega/Usona Fungi Fiction article came out, after he had already been hired and provided equity shares by Compass Pathways, and offered him sacrament for analytical testing which he agreed to and personal bioassay which he declined not being a willing psychonaut.
Hamilton told me on an hour and a half long phone call three months ago in April of 2024 that he was the source of the Promega/Usona samples and that he also sent those church sacrament samples to all the other labs who tested our sacrament like Kykeon Analytics Laboratory.
Hamilton said that he sent Promega/Usona two samples that were initially blinded to them. One sample was regular psilocybin mushrooms that Hamilton provided and the other sample was our sacrament according to Hamilton.
The defamatory Fungi Fiction article claims that our sacramental mushrooms came from an anonymous church member when in fact they came directly from Hamilton Morris without the Church’s permission nor approval nor knowledge nor chain of custody for their authenticity or preservation.
We sent Hamilton another round of our sacrament in November of 2022 grown by a different grower. These were two 5 grams bags of two different strains of our sacrament: White Golden Teachers and Penis Envy psilocybin mushrooms fed 5-meo-dmt to the substrate.
Ben Moore and I upon receipt of the sacrament from our grower immediately successfully bioassayed the medicine along with other church members experiencing the telltale 5ht1a effect, without any 5ht2a effects. We then removed 5 grams from each bag and sent them to Hamilton.
Both times Hamilton used methanol only to attempt to extract the psilomethoxin and then analyze it using Mass Spectrometry. The first time he claims to have found only trace amounts of psilocin and tryptamine, finding no psilomethoxin nor psilomethoxin pro-drug psilomethoxcybin.
The second time he claims to have found only ketamine and no psilocin or psilocybin nor psilomethoxin nor psilomethoxin pro-drug psilomethoxcybin.
Hamilton tested only one of the either White Golden Teachers or Penis Envy sacrament samples and never tested the other. He never shared any of either samples with any third party for testing to successfully replicate, corroborate and validate his results.
When Hamilton spoke with me he repeatedly told me that I should be suspicious of his corporate ties and that he was already working with Promega/Usona’s Alexander Sherwood on psilomethoxin and on psilomethoxin pro-drug psilomethoxcybin.
The screen shots of our entire conversation are below.
Ian Benouis 