No one had ever heard of psilocybin mushrooms until Gordon Wasson reported his mind-blowing experience with Maria Sabina in the Sierra Mazateca of Mexico. In 1957 he wrote that the fungi images were “more real to me than anything I had ever seen with my own eyes.” In language eerily similar to Bruno’s nine blind men, “inebriated with that which they saw so plainly” under the influence of Circe’s drugs, Wasson added, “I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view.” Incredibly both Bruno and Wasson compared these experiences to the Greek Mysteries.
