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This Mexican Medicine Woman Hipped America to Magic Mushrooms, with the Help of a Bank Executive

By Ahmed Kabil — 2017

María Sabina was well-respected in the village as a healer and shaman. She’d been consuming psilocybin mushrooms regularly since she was seven years old, and had performed the velada mushroom ceremony for over 30 years before Wasson arrived.

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Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro

The following is a version of an interview I held over several days in September 2006 with my mother, Doña Julia Julieta Casimiro, one of the most distinguished representatives of the traditions of the thousand-year-old Mazatec culture, which is centered in the northern mountains of the state of...

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Jesuita Natalia Pineda Casimiro
2007
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The Mystical Experience of Shamanism

Susan Mokelke tells of her venture into shamanism and how she helps to heal others.

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Susan Mokelke
2008
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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

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Stephanie Marohn
2014
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