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Paul Stamets: Psilocybin Mushrooms & The Mycology of Consciousness

By Paul Stamets — 2017

Paul Stamets Psilocybin Mushrooms and The Mycology of Consciousness

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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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Maria Sabina: Selections (Volume 2)

A shaman and visionary―not a poet in any ordinary sense―María Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jiménez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful reminder of how poetry can arise in a context...

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Maria Sabina
2003
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