…that the end of that repression came in a very odd way when in 1953, I guess it was Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina in the village of Huatla de Jimenez in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca discovered the psilocybin mushroom cult. It was as if erosion,…

…of the 20th century. Century. Over the first half of it, we'll say. And then in 1953, because that's when Gordon and Valentina Wasen discovered the mushroom. Or earlier, if you want to date it, to Hoffman's discoveries in Switzerland, or the german work…

…The inquisition were able to push this thing into the mountains of Oaxaca so that it only survived in a few villages until Valentina and Gordon Wasson went in the 1950s and found it there. And I. The metaphor I like for that, another metaphor. You see,…

…that the end of that repression came in a very odd way when in 1953 I guess it was Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina in the village of Huatla de Jimenez in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca discovered the psilocybin mushroom cult. It was as if Eros,…

…there's certainly enough of that in the history of psychedelics. Just as an example, the reason Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina went to Mexico was because Robert Graves told them that they should do that, that there was something in Mexico having…

…that would be the year zero of the second Strafariad. That when the Abraham and Sarah of the new order, Gordon and Valentina Wason discover the mushrooms in the mountains of Mexico. And then, of course, in the seventies, the brothers propagate the method…

…knowledge of psilocybin 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,…