Munn, Henry

Munn, Henry. "The Mushrooms of Language." In Shamanism and Hallucinogens. Edited by Michael Harner. London Oxford Univ. Press, 1973. 

Munn, Henry (1973). "The mushrooms of lan-guage," in Hamer, ed.. Hallucinogens and Shamanism, Oxford University Press, London, p. 88. 

HENRY MUNN has investigated the use of hallucinogenic plants among the Conibo Indians of eastern Pern and the Mazatec Indians of the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Although not a professional anthropologist, he has resided for extended periods of time among the Mazatecs and is married to the niece of the shaman and shamaness referred to in this essay. 

One of the most interesting papers published on mushrooms is Henry Munn s in Hallucinogens and Shamanism. Married to a niece of the shamans he writes about, Munn reports that the Indians hear the mushrooms say things and theorizes that psilocybin affects some verbalization and speech centers of the brain. Auditory hallucinations induced by these mushrooms occur both externally and internally (with "hearing, as we normally think of it, and with inner voices ). Munn emphasizes the "ecstatic language given voice through the shamans ... 

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