The Sacred Mushroom Teonanacatl - Part 2


Strange to say, the reports in the old chronicles about the use of magic mushrooms remained unnoticed during the following centuries, probably because they were considered products of the imagination of a superstitious age.

All traces of the existence of "sacred mushrooms" were in danger of becoming obliterated once and for all, when, in 1915, an Americanbotanist of repute, Dr. W. E. Safford, in an address before the Botanical Society in Washi... read more

The Sacred Mushroom Teonanacatl - Part 1

Late in 1956 a notice in the daily paper caught my interest. Among some Indians in southern Mexico, American researchers had discovered mushrooms that were eaten in religious ceremonies and that produced an inebriated condition accompanied by hallucinations.
Since, outside of the mescaline cactus found also in Mexico, no other drug was known at the time that, like LSD, produced hallucinations, I would have liked to establish contact with these res... read more