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. W
Psilocybe caerulescens var. caerulescens. Wasson ingested this species on June 29, 1955. The experience became the basis for his 1957 essay.
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Mazatec
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The Mazatec are an Indigenous people of Mexico who inhabit the Sierra Mazateca in the state of Oaxaca and some communities in the adjacent states of Puebla and Veracruz.
Mazatec girls performing a dance in Huautla de Jimenez