page_title: Seeking the Magic Mushroom
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Seeking the Magic Mushroom / References
caption_attribution_description: Español: Fotografia tomada por Don Juan Peralta.
context_page_description: "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. Wasson was one of the first Westerners to participate in a Mazatec ceremony and to describe the psychoactive effects of the Psilocybe species. The essay contains photographs by Allan Richardson and illustrations of several mushroom species of Psilocybe collected and identified by French botanist Roger Heim, then director of the French National Museum of Natural History. Wasson's essay, written in a first person narrative, appeared in the May 13 issue of Life magazine as part three of the "Great Adventures" series.
  The essay was part of three related works about mushrooms released around the same time period. It was preceded by the limited release of Mushrooms, Russia and History, a two-volume book by Wasson and his wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. The Life magazine essay was followed six days later by "I Ate the Sacred Mushroom", an interview with Valentina in This Week magazine.
context_section_description: Allen, John W. 2002. Mushroom Pioneers.  Psilly Publications.  ISBN 1605294071.
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  Feinberg, Ben. 2009. “A Symbol Of Wisdom And Love? Counter-Cultural Tourism And The Multiple Faces Of María Sabina In Huautla, Oaxaca.” The Politics of Space and Imagery (2009): 93–114.
  Harvard University Herbaria. 2002. R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986) Archives.  Harvard University.
  Harvey, Graham. 2003. Shamanism: A Reader. Routledge. .
  Bone, Eugenia. 2011. Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms. Rodale. ISBN 0-415-25329-2ISBN 1582140995.
  Lee, Martin A. Shlain, Bruce. 1992. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3062-3.
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  Letcher, Andy. 2008. Shroom: A Cultural history of the Magic Mushroom. Harper Collins. ISBN 0060828293.
  Reiedlinger, Thomas J. 1990. The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson.  Dioscorides Press. ISBN 0931146178.
  Reuters. 1970. Hippies Flocking to Mexico for Mushroom 'Trips'. The New York Times (July 22). (subscription required)
  Ruck, Carl. 2010. Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution. Brainwaving. Beckley Foundation.
  Singer, Rolf. 1958. Mycological Investigations on Teonanácatl, the Mexican Hallucinogenic Mushroom. Part I. The History of Teonanácatl, Field Work and Culture Work. Mycologia 50, no. 2 (March–April): 239–261. (subscription required)
  Stafford, Peter. 1993. Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Ronin Publishing. ISBN 0914171518.
  Wasson, R. G. 1957. Seeking the magic mushroom. Life 49, no. 19 (May 13): 100–102, 109–120.
  Stevens, Jay. 1998. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream. Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3587-0.
  Wasson, R. Gordon. 1970. Drugs: The Sacred Mushroom. The New York Times (Sept 26): 29. (subscription required)
  Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna. 1957. I Ate the Sacred Mushroom. This Week. (May 19): 8–10, 36.
  Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna and R. Gordon Wasson. 1957. Mushrooms, Russia and History. Vol II. New York: Pantheon Books. OCLC 319942
  Weiner, Tim. 2002. Huautla Journal; The Place for Trips of the Mind-Bending Kind. The New York Times (May 8).
caption: Maria Sabina
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