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1 giorno fa · The fact that perspectives on mushrooms can vary across cultures—and indeed profoundly so—was first systematically described by Valentina Pavlovna and R. Gordon Wasson. On their honeymoon trip to the Catskill Mountains in 1927, the Russian-born pediatrician and the US-American banker discovered their diametrically opposed attitudes toward mushrooms.
4 giorni fa · It was during this time that R. Gordon Wasson, a pioneering mycologist, traveled to Mexico and participated in a traditional Mazatec mushroom ceremony. He published his experiences in a 1957 Life magazine article, which sparked curiosity in the Western world.
4 giorni fa · This passage, from The Road to Eleusis, by R. Gordon Wasson, sums up that type of experience: It permits you to see, more clearly than our mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other places of existence, even to know God.
5 giorni fa · This paper aims to observe, contextualize, and analyze the multifaceted religious fungal foundations of Moscow Conceptualism within the context of Slavic and European esoteric mythological praxis. By unveiling the thematic basis of their transgressive spiritual endeavors, this study seeks to enhance our comprehension of this artistic and literary movement in the Western world. Besides ...
2 giorni fa · Psilocybin (/ ˌ s aɪ l ə ˈ s aɪ b ɪ n / sy-lə-SY-bin, / ˌ s ɪ l-/) is a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound produced by more than 200 species of fungi.The most potent are members of genus Psilocybe, such as P. azurescens, P. semilanceata, and P. cyanescens, but psilocybin has also been isolated from approximately a dozen other genera.
2 giorni fa · r. Gordon Wasson , banquero neoyorquino, dio a conocer estos hongos a Occidente en los años ’50 tras su experiencia con la curandera mazateca María Sabina . Su artículo en la revista Life despertó una oleada de interés que transformó el tranquilo pueblo de Huautla, en el estado de Oaxaca, en una meca para lxs buscadores de hongos, para consternación de las comunidades locales.
3 giorni fa · The famed Mazatec healer, Maria Sabina, unintentionally brought these practices to the attention of the Western world during a ritualistic mushroom ceremony attended by R. Gordon Wasson, an American mycologist, in the 1950s. However, the 1970s saw a clampdown on psychedelic substances, including mushrooms.
