Wasson, Gordon

An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine. Draws parallels between Vedic beliefs and Judeo-Christian sects, showing the existence of a mushroom cult that crossed cultural boundaries. Contends that the famed philosophers stone of the alchemist was a metaphor for the mushroom. Confirms and extends Robert Gordon Wasson s hypothesis of the role of the fly agaric... [Pg.437]

Wasson, R. Gordon, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. P. Ruck. 1998. The Road to Eleusis Unveiling the Secrets of the Mysteries. Los Angeles William Dailey Rare Books. [Pg.251]

Wasson, R. Gordon. Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality. New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. [Pg.175]

Gordon Wasson speculated that Salvia divinorum was the pipilzintzintli, the "Noble Prince" mentioned in Aztec codices. One problem with this identification is that pipilzintzintli was said to have both male and female varieties while our ska Pastora is, botanically speaking, perfect. The Aztecs were skilled botanists and surely knew the difference between male flowers and female... [Pg.167]

Sacred Mushroom Seeker Essays forR. Gordon Wasson. Edited by T.J. RIEDLINGER, pp 115-127. Portland. OR. [Pg.242]

Riedlinger, TJ. (Ed). (1990). The Sacred Mushroom Seeker Essays for R. Gordon Wasson. Portland, OR. [Pg.243]

All plant material used in this study was propagated from the clone originally brought into the USA by R. Gordon Wasson in 1962. [Pg.248]

R. Gordon Wasson became atec Indians of Oaxaca as a... [Pg.276]

Gordon Wasson and Alber living plant to Dr. Epling i fl monograph of the Salvia sul... [Pg.276]

A New Mexican Psychotropic Drug from the Mint Family by R. Gordon Wasson"... [Pg.278]

Gordon Wasson in Mexico (195s) o by Allan B. Richardson. Courtesy Wasson Collection. [Pg.281]

Ayautla, Sierra Mazateca (1962 Photo by R. Gordon Wasson. Courtesy Wasso... [Pg.304]

R. Gordon Wasson, with whom I had maintained friendly relations since the investigations of the Mexican magic mushrooms, invited my wife and me to take part in an expedition to Mexico in the fall of 1962. The purpose of the journey was to search for another Mexican magic plant, Wasson had learned on his travels in the mountains of southern Mexico that the expressed juice of the leaves of a plant, which were called hojas de la Pastora or hojas de Maria Pastora, in Mazatec ska Pastora or ska Maria Pastora (leaves of the... [Pg.305]

Participation in this ceremony was the climax of our expedition. It brought confirmation that the hojas de la Pastora were used by the Indians for the same purpose and in the same ceremonial milieu as teonanacatl, the sacred mushrooms. Now we also had authentic plant material, not only sufficient for botanical identification, but also for the planned chemical analysis. The inebriated state that Gordon Wasson and my wife had experienced with the hojas had been shallow and only of short duration, yet it had exhibited a distinctly hallucinogenic character. [Pg.313]

So far in this book I have mainly described my scientific work and matters relating to my professional activity. But this work, by its very nature, had repercussions on my own life and personality, not least because it brought me into contact with interesting and important contemporaries. I have already mentioned some of them-Timothy Leary, Rudolf Gelpke, Gordon Wasson. Now, in... [Pg.319]

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