Seeking the Magic Mushroom
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title:
Seeking the Magic Mushroom
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"Seeking the Magic Mushroom" is a 1957 photo essay by amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wasson was one of the first Westerners to participate in a Mazatec ceremony and to describe the psychoactive effects of the Psilocybe species. The essay contains photographs by Allan Richardson and illustrations of several mushroom species of Psilocybe collected and identified by French botanist Roge
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1957 photo essay by R. Gordon Wasson
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeking_the_Magic_Mushroom
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2023-12-16T07:10:27Z
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