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For anyone interested in this story and more you should check out Michael Pollan’s book How To Change Your Mind. It goes into quite a bit of depth on how this
by shartshooter 7y ago
For anyone interested in this story and more you should check out Michael Pollan’s book How To Change Your Mind.
It goes into quite a bit of depth on how this story came to be, the motivations, impact to culture as well as the impact to the indigenous tribe(primarily a single woman) that allowed LIFE magazine to cover this ritual.
Beyond psilocybin he covers the history of LSD, DMT and some more obscure psychedelics I hadn’t heard of.
If you have no knowledge or experience with psychedelics but want to understand why they became popularized and then demonized I recommend the book highly.
- roymurdock 7y agoSeconding this recommendation. Pollan talks about this exact article in the book, and how Eva Mendez came to sorely regret ever letting Wasson and Richardson partake in the ceremony and publish accounts of the experience. Most incredible to me is that Pollan, late 50s with a dim view of drugs and especially psychedelics, experiments with various different drugs in order to explore and describe their effects for the audience. Great author who does his research and great book.