Friday, 27 February 2009

SEEKING THE MAGIC MUSHROOM

A New York banker goes to Mexico's mountains to participate in the age-old rituals of Indians who chew strange growths that produce visions

By R. GORDON WASSON

PREPARING FOR CEREMONY at which author chewed hallucinogenic mushrooms and had visions, Curandera Eva Mendez ceremonially turns fungus in the smoke of burning aromatic leaves.

GORDON WASSON

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