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Today in psychedelic history (01/24)
    #17600725 - 01/24/13 05:14 AM (11 years, 6 days ago)

  • 1961:  The One Step Beyond episode "The Sacred Mushroom" aires




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The Sacred Mushroom

A January 1961 episode, "The Sacred Mushroom", deals with the discovery of mind-altering drugs. Newland traveled to Mexico where he met with a local shaman who was an initiate in ritual use of magic mushrooms. The then-unknown mushrooms were purportedly able to increase the user's psychic powers. On camera, Newland ingested several mushrooms and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast. This was the only episode of the entire series to have a relatively reality-based "documentary" tone, rather than the scripted docudramas that made up all other episodes. Although the subject matter (the enhancement of psychic powers) was in line with the rest of the series, this episode was somewhat controversial and was omitted from the syndication package; it has been seen only rarely since its original broadcast. However, according to Newland, it was the most popular episode of the series.


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Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond: Season 3, Episode 18
The Sacred Mushroom (24 Jan. 1961)

Storyline

Newland and his associates visit a remote Mexican village to determine if eating a rare mushroom can enhance one's extrasensory perception capacities.


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  • 1968:  Owsley Stanley is arrested for sale of LSD again




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Stanley Charged in LSD Sale

  Augustus Owsley Stanley III, and an associate were indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury yesterday on charges of selling $3,500 worth of LSD to an undercover agent.
  Stanley, who was arrested last December in Orinda with $11 million worth of LSD. was indicted on one count of selling LSD to a narcotics agent Jan. 24 in Los Angeles.
  His associate, Jessie L. Clifton, 2Q, was indicted on three counts of selling LSD and one count of possession of LSD for sale in connection with the same incident at the Los Angeles International Airport.
  Stanley, 33, is free on bond and is expected to surrender Monday. Clifton is in custody.
  Stanley is scheduled for arraignment Feb. 23 in the Orinda case. Before LSD was put into the dangerous drug category by the California legislature, Stanley was reputed to have become a millionaire manufacturing the "acid". Us purity became a hippie legend.


(Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) 22 Feb 1968, Thu Page 17)




Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 34, the self-styled "king of LSD," Tuesday was acquitted of selling 500 capsules of the psychedelic drug to an undercover agent. Superior Judge Paul W. Egley, after a five-day non jury trial, ruled that there was insufficient evidence connecting Stanley with the sale Jan. 24 at International Airport.
Stanley, reputedly one of the largest manufacturers of LSD in the United States, was arrested along with Jessie L. Clifton, 21, just after arriving from San Francisco where both lived.
Clifton, who actually sold the drug to the officer, previously pleaded guilty to one count of possession and three counts of sale of LSD. He was placed on three years' probation and sentenced to four months in county jail.
The prosecution alleged that the sale was made after Clifton received an affirmative signal from Stanley. However, Clifton was called as a defense witness and testified that he had no connection with Stanley.


(The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) 18 Dec 1968, Wed Page 44)















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #17600786 - 01/24/13 05:59 AM (11 years, 6 days ago)

Here's the episode in full.  Early televised psychedelia.  Half a decade before these drugs would be demonized and associated with the counter culture. 





















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 2
    #17601315 - 01/24/13 09:26 AM (11 years, 5 days ago)

Awesome post!


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Harri] * 2
    #19466168 - 01/24/14 05:39 AM (10 years, 6 days ago)

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"This fungus, is for now known only as X" 

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‘One Step Beyond’ TV host takes magic mushroom trip on American TV in 1961
07.05.2012
02:13 pm

From 1959 to 1961, John Newland directed and narrated the TV show One Step Beyond, which explored the “world of the unknown.”

In this rather amazing episode, Newland travels to Mexico to eat magic mushrooms. This show aired less than a year after Timothy Leary had traveled to Cuernavaca and had his first experiences with psilocybin, making Newland, along with Leary, one of the handful of high profile pioneers of psychedelia and one of the first public figures to praise psilocybin’s mind expanding properties.

That this open-minded episode of One Step Beyond ever entered the homes of unsuspecting Americans is certainly some kind of landmark in the history of psychedelia.

Journalist and book author John Kenneth Muir interviewed John Newland in 1999 (shortly before Newland took a step into the beyond) and discussed the infamous mushroom eating episode of One Step Beyond .

    MUIR: Okay, you know I’ve got to question you about the episode called “The Sacred Mushroom.”  This remains one of the most notorious episodes in network TV history, because you are seen on camera literally sampling mushrooms with hallucinogenic properties in a California laboratory.  In your own words from the beginning of the show, “the story featured no actors, no script.”  Basically, it was a travelogue to Mexico to experiment with these mushrooms. What was going on with that story?

    NEWLAND: That was our most popular episode.  It was a spooky trip.  We landed in a tiny airstrip in Mexico near a mission.  From there, it was a donkey trip of four days to reach the village [Oaxaca]. It was a dangerous journey, but we got phenomenal footage.

    MUIR: That portion of the episode involved Dr. Barbara Brown (a neuro-pharmacologist), David Grey (A Hawaiin spiritual leader), Dr. Jeffrey Smith (a philosophy professor from Stanford) and Dr. Andrija Puharch sampling a mushroom called “X,” given to them by a local with doctor called a brujo.  The peyote was supposed to enhance psychic abilities, and it was pretty damn unusual to see people getting high on TV in 1961, wasn’t it?

    NEWLAND: Alcoa told us that the show was so bizarre, that we don’t dare put it on the air.

    MUIR: So how did you salvage the episode?

    NEWLAND: Well, Puharich asked me to take the mushroom, and I was game, so we took a camera crew and drove to Palo Alto and Puharich’s laboratory.  Once there, I had three cameras rolling the whole time, and I told the cameramen to just keep shooting until we ran out of film.  We decided to shoot and shoot and shoot and see what happened.

    MUIR: Did you feel anything strange when you sampled the mushroom?

    NEWLAND: I felt light-headed…and a sense of well being…the stuff was distilled.  It was very powerful, but not poisonous, so I didn’t have any trepidations.

    MUIR: Were there after-effects?”

    NEWLAND: I had flashbacks and hallucinatory moments for about a month.

    MUIR: But nothing psychic or paranormal happened?

    NEWLAND: No. Not a grain.

    MUIR: I guess I should ask you then, have you ever had a psychic or paranormal experience?

    NEWLAND: I’ve not had a single experience.  I’d like to have one, and if I were offered one, I’d certainly jump at it instantly.

    MUIR: Going back to “The Sacred Mushroom,” your involvement with Puharich in the lab saved the show for broadcast.

    NEWLAND: Alcoa saw it and considered my testimony “proof enough,” to air the show.  As I said, it became our most popular episode.”


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan]
    #21170875 - 01/24/15 12:16 PM (9 years, 5 days ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan]
    #22818480 - 01/24/16 11:07 AM (8 years, 5 days ago)

55th anniversary of the "Sacred Mushroom" episode of One Step Beyond today.















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    #24035182 - 01/24/17 05:33 AM (7 years, 5 days ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #24035521 - 01/24/17 09:35 AM (7 years, 4 days ago)

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Gold.

I love these historical posts, great work man..Great way to learn the rich psychedelic history which so many people have no idea about...


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: 1Love1]
    #24937931 - 01/24/18 05:36 AM (6 years, 5 days ago)

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I love these historical posts, great work man..Great way to learn the rich psychedelic history which so many people have no idea about...




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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #24938775 - 01/24/18 01:27 PM (6 years, 4 days ago)

Crazy to see things from this perspective...thanks leary!


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: thizzlemaniac]
    #25764708 - 01/24/19 05:36 AM (5 years, 5 days ago)

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #26450018 - 01/24/20 01:19 PM (4 years, 4 days ago)

So "x" is Psilocybe Mexicana, right?


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: InfiniteDreams] * 1
    #26450701 - 01/24/20 07:55 PM (4 years, 4 days ago)

That One Step Beyond documentary initially has the look and feel of the original Twilight Zone.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (01/24) [Re: Nature Boy]
    #27166950 - 01/24/21 09:50 AM (3 years, 3 days ago)

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InfiniteDreams said:
So "x" is Psilocybe Mexicana, right?




They went to Mexico, but I don't know if they ever revealed, or knew, what the mushroom species was.




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That One Step Beyond documentary initially has the look and feel of the original Twilight Zone.




Apparently One Step Beyond actually came out almost a year before The Twilight Zone. But anyway, today is the 60th anniversary of the "Sacred Mushroom" episode!









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55th anniversary of Owsley Stanley being busted for selling $3,500 worth of LSD to an undercover agent.







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