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Anyone know of Maria Sabina? Priestess of the Mushrooms
    #14417109 - 05/07/11 10:51 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

To get you a basic Idea of who she is:

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María Sabina (1894 - November 23, 1985) was a Mazatec curandera who lived her entire life in a modest dwelling in the Sierra Mazateca of southern Mexico[citation needed]. Her practice was based on the use of the various species of native psilocybe mushrooms.[citation needed][1]
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    1 Her life
    2 Chants
    3 Cultural impact
    4 Notes
    5 References
    6 External links

[edit] Her life

María Sabina was the first contemporary Mexican curandera, defined as a native shaman, to allow Westerners to participate in the healing vigil that became known as the velada,[2][3] where all participants partake of the psilocybin mushroom as a sacrament to open the gates of the mind. The velada is seen as a purification and as a communion with the sacred[citation needed].

In 1955, the US banker and ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson visited María Sabina's hometown of Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, and participated in a velada with her. He also brought spores of the fungus, which he identified as Psilocybe mexicana, to Paris. The fungus was cultivated in Europe and its active ingredient was duplicated as the chemical psilocybin in the laboratory by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1958.

US youth began seeking out María Sabina and the "holy children" as early as 1962, and in the years that followed, thousands of counterculture mushroom seekers, scientists, and others arrived in the Sierra Mazateca, and many met her.[4] By 1967 more than 70 people from the US, Canada, and Western Europe were renting cabins in neighboring villages. Many of them went there directly after reading the May 13, 1957 Life Magazine article written by Wasson about his experiences.

Sabina cultivated relationships with several of them, including Wasson, who became something of a friend[citation needed]. Many 1960s celebrities visited María Sabina, including rock stars such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Jagger gave Sabina a pair of golden earrings from France, depicted in this article and many other photos.[citation needed].

While she was initially hospitable to the truth seekers thronging to her, their lack of respect for the sacred and traditional purposes caused María Sabina to remark:

    "Before Wasson, nobody took the children simply to find God. They were always taken to cure the sick[citation needed]."

Many of the travelers were penniless, and they contributed little to the local economy, especially when they learned to find the mushrooms on their own[citation needed].

Late in life, María Sabina became bitter about her many misfortunes, and how others had profited from her name[citation needed]. Nevertheless, late in her life she confided to Joan Halifax that the dissemination of the knowledge of the sacred mushroom was her fate, that it was pre-ordained by God that she met Wasson. She also felt that the ceremony of the velada had been desecrated and irremediably polluted by the hedonistic use of the mushrooms:

    "From the moment the foreigners arrived, the 'holy children' lost their purity. They lost their force, they ruined them. Henceforth they will no longer work. There is no remedy for it[citation needed]."

[edit] Chants

Álvaro Estrada, a fellow Mazatec, recorded her life and work and translated her chants. Estrada's American brother-in-law, Henry Munn, translated many of the chants from Spanish to English, and wrote about the significance of her language. According to Munn, María Sabina brilliantly used themes common to Mazatec and Mesoamerican spiritual traditions, but at the same time was a unique talent, a masterful oral poet and craftsperson with a profound literary and personal charisma[citation needed].

It is sung in a shamanic trance in which, as she recounted, the "saint children" speak through her:

    Because I can swim in the immense
    Because I can swim in all forms
    Because I am the launch woman
    Because I am the sacred opposum
    Because I am the Lord opposum
    I am the woman Book that is beneath the water, says
    I am the woman of the populous town, says
    I am the shepherdess who is beneath the water, says
    I am the woman who shepherds the immense, says
    I am a shepherdess and I come with my shepherd, says
    Because everything has its origin
    And I come going from place to place from the origin..
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Sabina


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Re: Anyone know of Maria Sabina? Priestess of the Mushrooms [Re: Swwert]
    #14417130 - 05/07/11 10:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I knew who she was but not that much about her, thanks for posting


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Re: Anyone know of Maria Sabina? Priestess of the Mushrooms [Re: Greenvalley]
    #14417242 - 05/07/11 11:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

There is a lot about her in this book I have by Ralph Metzner called 'Sacred Mushroom of Visions'

I guess that as more and more white westerners came to her parts to experience the mushrooms, her healing power became weaker and weaker, as the mushroom became more of a thrillseeker's adventure.


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Re: Anyone know of Maria Sabina? Priestess of the Mushrooms [Re: drr]
    #14417299 - 05/07/11 11:22 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

How tragic and sad


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