…a mysterious, intoxicant soma. Nobody knows what soma is, but much scholarly ink and blood has been shed on the question. And Gordon Wassen argued that it had to be amanita masala and made a case which impressed some people and not others. The most…

…a complete inventory of the world's people, languages, technologies, belief systems that characterizes anthropology. But there it is. In 1953, Gordon Wassen returns from the village of Huatla de Jimenez and the Sierra Mazateca. And he has the body of Eros,…

…in Siberia, in the Amur river, the Yakut shamans and a couple of other tribes have utilized this for a long, long time. Gordon Wassen wrote a book in which he tried to suggest that amanita muscaria may have been the basis of the vedic hallucinogen soma.…

…was lost to the entire planet, except for some tribes in the mexican mountains for several millennia, until Valentina and Gordon Wassen went in the early 1950s and found these mushrooms and brought them out. And then Albert Hoffman, who had earlier…