Robert Gordon Wasson
Robert gordon wasson 1898 1986 worked as an assistant director of public relations at jp.
Robert gordon wasson. Gordon wasson and maria sabina. A big bank in america. In the course of cia funded 5 research wasson made contributions to the fields of ethnobotany botany and anthropology.
They explored the issue together and in 1955 wasson travelled to mexico where he sought evidence of hallucinogenic mushrooms and their use by native people. His wife valentinas russian upbringing included a comfort with wild mushrooms in contrast to wassons innate fear and repulsion. December 26 1986 88 immediate family.
These he made with his wife valentina pavlovna guercken. Robert gordon wasson was an international banker amateur mycologist and author. A pioneer of the ethnomycology.
One of the first was an american robert gordon wasson an economist by profession best known for his studies in ethnobotany the interaction between humans and plants. Wasson md a new york pediatrician has spent the last four summers in remote mountains of 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 roge. Husband of valentina wasson. At the same time he is also considered to be the founder of the psychedelic revolution which started in the west during the second half of the last century.
Robert gordon wasson september 22 1898 december 23 1986 was an american author ethnomycologist and vice president for public relations at jp. Gordon wasson author businessperson scientist in addition to being a legendary mushroom expert robert gordon wasson was an author and vice president for public relations at jp morgan company. 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.
Persephones quest to view this image. View persephones quest entheogens and the origins of religion by robert gordon wasson stella kramrisch from rels 300 at san francisco state university. P reparing for ceremony at which author chewed hallucinogenic mushrooms and had visions curandera eva mendez ceremonially turns fungus in the smoke of burning aromatic leaves.