HezFinally got around to #MichaelPollan's excellent #HowToChangeYourMind series on Netflix (w/obvs interest in the #psilocybin ep.) it's gratifying to see footage of the #MariaSabina documentary I posted here yesterday, as well as images of books & articles from #TheWassons that I've had open on my desktop for weeks. Knowing how much researchers were desperate for studies to continue after it was halted in the 70s, it feels good to be playing even a small part in bringing it back. #WorkJournal
Sad to hear life was never easy & ended in poverty for Maria Sabina, following a nasty backlash from her village which saw so much rapid cultural change from the influx of psilocybin-curious outsiders (many of them hippies who squatted there) because she risked sharing the secrets of the divine mushroom w/ #RGWasson, but it sounds like she's a beloved icon today, and her great-grandson Anselmo García Martínez seems to be carrying on the #curandero tradition according to the #Mazatec ancestors.