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This Day In History - June 29, 1955
    #7108353 - 06/29/07 06:27 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

June 29, 1955

R. Gordon Wasson participated in a “mushroom velada” led by the Mexican curandera Maria Sabina, confirming the previously-debated existence of psychoactive mushrooms.

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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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: veggie]
    #7108371 - 06/29/07 06:33 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Sounds like  a pretty good life to me.  :laugh:


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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: veggie]
    #7109287 - 06/29/07 11:03 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

ahh if it wasint for wasson neither me or anyone else would have a nice grow op going, and would have never been able to expereince this wonderful mycolocal find,


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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: dutchmushroom]
    #7110225 - 06/30/07 05:26 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Its always nice to trip on a full moon to. :wink:

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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: veggie]
    #7110731 - 06/30/07 10:39 AM (16 years, 8 months ago)

there is a recording floating around of Maria Sabina singing as part of the mushroom valeda. i found it on eMule years ago.

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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: Clean]
    #7111997 - 06/30/07 05:09 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

Can anyone offer more info on Maria Sabina. was she some sort of leader in the re-discovery of shrooms? Any economist is good in my book.


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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: surfsimon]
    #7114911 - 07/01/07 12:20 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sabina

I wouldn't call her a leader in the rediscovery really. More like the link between the old native knowledge of the mushrooms to our modern society's awareness of them. But she was a medecine woman who actually allowed americans to participate in the rituals. She was certainly the leader of those rituals, though.

Economist? I really don't think that has to do his fascination in with mushrooms. Who knows... maybe it does. But if you're into economists, uh, good times?


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Re: This Day In History - June 29, 1955 [Re: Koala Koolio]
    #7115850 - 07/01/07 05:45 PM (16 years, 8 months ago)

what a good day:peace:


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