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Netflix Documentary 'Fantastic Fungi' Explores the Many Magical Properties of Mushrooms

By Ariana Bindman — 2021

Fungi have been around for billions of years, setting the stage for humanity by supporting, carrying and converting life. But for complex political reasons, these organisms are still shrouded in mystery.

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Drugs: The Sacred Mushroom

Not long ago The New York Times carried a dispatch from Mexico telling about the descent of hippies on Huautla de Jimenez in quest of the “sacred mushrooms.” With the dispatch appeared a photo of a priestess of the rite, Maria Sabina.

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R. Gordon Wasson
1970
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On María Sabina, One of Mexico’s Greatest Poets

Long before 1960s counter-culture, an indigenous Mexican healer was creating extraordinary poetry under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms.

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Chloe Aridjis
2015
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This Mexican Medicine Woman Hipped America to Magic Mushrooms, with the Help of a Bank Executive

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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Ahmed Kabil
2017
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