were it not for one intrepid ethnomycologist, it’s quite possible the “little saints” would be hiding out still. That’s what the Mazatec witch Maria Sabina called them. In 1955 she let Gordon Wasson have a taste of the psilocybin mushrooms that dealt the beatific vision in no uncertain terms. Wasson instantly believed he’d cracked the code of the “Ancient Mysteries.” And in 1957 he let the whole world in on a prehistoric secret that would have sent the Spanish missionaries into cardiac arrest. By 1959 the Protestant missionaries among the Mazatecs had heard about Wasson’s discovery. And they
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