“I even saw four deer grazing”: online-offline entanglements in the psilocybin pluriverse
June 17, 2026 Michał Wanke, Paweł Matuszewski, Piotr Siuda
An analysis of approximately 3,000 posts from a Polish online drug forum (mid-2000s–2023) shows that after 2020, discussions about psilocybin mushrooms shifted from immersive, metaphysical narratives toward predictive, scientifically informed, and risk-managed practices. Forum users increasingly integrated digital tools like mapping and smartphone verification with environmental field observations, reflecting online-offline entanglements and more-than-human relations of foraging. The forum functions as an apparatus within a psychedelic pluriverse, where different versions of psilocybin coexist, negotiate legitimacy, and sustain themselves. The study demonstrates how digital platforms and embodied ecological practices jointly shape contemporary psychedelic practices, highlighting their relational, contingent, and ethically informed character.