Buster_Brown said:

Sad:

"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."

As the community was besieged by Westerners wanting to experience the mushroom induced hallucinations, Sabina attracted attention by the Mexican police who thought that she sold drugs to the foreigners. The unwanted attention completely altered the social dynamics of the Mazatec community and threatened to terminate the Mazatec custom. The community blamed Sabina, and she was ostracized in the community and had her house burned down. Sabina later regretted having introduced Wasson to the practice, but Wasson contended that his only intention was to contribute to the sum of human knowledge.[7] [8][9]

Late in life, María Sabina became bitter about her many misfortunes, and how others had profited from her name.[10] 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."

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That's life Maria, deal with it, you're not special. .

You'd think, considering all the people here that say shrooms give you precognition and all that shit that an expert like her would have seen it coming.

Icelander said:

Because she said it.

Seems to me she was laboring under the same likely mistaken impression that many psychedelic users of today are.

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