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 veggie
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 This Day In History - May 13, 1957
#8395160 - 05/13/08 12:37 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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 May 13, 1957
Gordon Wasson published an article about psychoactive mushrooms in Life Magazine, the first popular media coverage of their existence
R. Gordon Wasson was an international banker, amateur mycologist, and author. He was born in Montana, raised in New Jersey, and served as a radio operator in the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. After the war Wasson studied at the Columbia School of Journalism and the London School of Economics.
Wasson taught English and worked as a journalist for various magazines before, in 1926, marrying Valentina Pavlovna Guercken, a Russian-born pediatrician. Valentina's Russian upbringing included a comfort with wild mushrooms in contrast to Wasson's innate fear and repulsion. They explored the issue and together coined the terms "mycophobe" and "mycophile".
This interest in mushrooms led Wasson to Mexico in 1953 where he sought evidence of hallucinogenic mushrooms and their use by native people. He eventually met Maria Sabina, a Mazatec curandera who initiated Wasson into the experience of psilocybin mushrooms. He wrote up his experience in a famous article in Life Magazine in 1957. Wasson is also credited with having collected the first herbarium sample of Salvia divinorum in 1962 during his travels in Mexico.
SEEKING THE MAGIC MUSHROOM
(May 13, 1957 Life Magazine article)
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 andrewss
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Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: veggie]
#8395238 - 05/13/08 01:19 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Thats pretty cool... pretty interesting time in history.
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Gordy
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 Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: andrewss]
#8395317 - 05/13/08 02:03 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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good day to trip
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mebesideme
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Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: Gordy]
#8395428 - 05/13/08 03:14 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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Ever seen Altered States? thought that was loosely based on this fellow. I know that was a total fiction movie.
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Gordy
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Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: mebesideme]
#8395434 - 05/13/08 03:21 AM (3 months, 16 days ago) |
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meb, that the one w/ the guy who eats mushrooms, goes in the iso chamber and comes out a monster?
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JusListen
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Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: Gordy]
#8395824 - 05/13/08 08:58 AM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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hah yeah, in altered states, the harvard teacher was using the sensory deprivation tank, to well, regress his psyche..
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: This Day In History - May 13, 1957 [Re: veggie]
#8396136 - 05/13/08 10:33 AM (3 months, 15 days ago) |
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Thanks Gordon - you opened the floodgates of western consciousness to sacred and visionary plants and drugs!
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