Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna

Scores of psilocybian mushrooms are of special interest nowadays, thanks mainly to the investigations of one couple R. Gordon Wasson and Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. These two individuals were essential to the discovery that the largest natural production of psychedelics occurs in mushrooms. This revelation—quite as serendipitous as Flofmanris discovery of... 

Valentina Pavlovna Wasson, who co-initiated ethnomycology, and was the first white woman to try psilocybian mushrooms. 

By the time of Valentina Pavlovna s death from cancer at the end of 1958, most of the teonandcatl story had been uncovered. Commenting later on their search, Wasson said that even if they had been on the wrong track, theirs "must have been a singular false hypothesis to have produced the results that it has. ... 

Trip 3) Three days later, Wasson s wife Valentina Pavlovna ingested five pairs and their thirteen-year-old daughter Masha took four pairs of the same mushrooms. They swallowed them during the afternoon in sleeping bags in a closed room. This was the first occasion, Wasson remarked,... 

It is instructive to consider some of the comments made by R.G. Wasson s wife Valentina Pavlovna, as they appear in the second report about Mexico s magic mushrooms in 1957,... 

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