Maria Sabina
Maria Sabina was a shaman/mystic from the Mazatec village of Huautla de Jimenez, in the Sierra Madre Oriental, of the Oaxaca state of Mexico.[1] She used psilocybin mushrooms to induce connection and host Veladas, or night vigils.
List of Mystics
Mystics > Agehananda Bharati, Alan Watts, Bernard of Clairvaux, Emanuel Swedenborg, Howard Thurman, Ibn al-'Arabi, Julian of Norwich, Maria Sabina, Martin Prechtel, Michael Harner, Oscar Ichazo, Romain Rolland, Shihäb al-Din al-Suhrawardi, Thomas Merton
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Shaman in an ancient mushroom cult.
Mushrooms visualized as little male or female beings, elves, duendes, tricksters.[2]
"It was not only the gold and natural riches of Anahuac, the culture and art of Mesoamerica that astonished the Spanish priests and conquistadors who arrived in this land in the sixteenth century: the native medicines (comprising a "marvellous collection" of hallucinogenic plants) were also the objects of attention, study, and condemnation."[3] Hallucinogenic practices were seen as "demoniacal" and the practice was forced underground in most cases, but survived in Huautla, in Sierra Mazatec.
Mushrooms have the power to cure, and also give "the mystical force that creates the elevated, esoteric language of the shaman." [4]
Seen as Teonanacatl - Flesh of the Gods.
Footnotes
- ↑ Wasson, R. Gordon, George Cowan, Florence Cowan, and Willard Rhodes. Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Flo. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 23.
- ↑ Estrada, Alvaro. Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants. Translated by Henry Munn. Santa Barbara, California: Ross-Erikson, 1981. p. 23.
