…hallucinogenic shamanism is decadent or, in fact, primary. And maciliad puts the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent and Gordon Watson very rightly I believe contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the…

…cultures and various hallucinogenic substances it came to my attention that in my opinion and I believe in the opinion of Gordon Watson and other scholars Henry Munn comes to mind. He wrote a marvelous essay called the mushrooms of language, that in the…

…was enthroned scientific method was enthroned and the civilization that we know arose around us. But then, in 1953, Valentina and Gordon Watson went to Guadalupe De jimenez in the sierra mazatec of Oaxaca and they discovered this mushroom cult, and it's my…

…quite get the front of the line. But he said: narcotic shamanism is decadent, resort to drugs is decadent. Well then Gordon Watson, who was the discoverer of the mushroom complex, took exactly the opposite position and said: shamanism in the absence of…

…the triumphal chariot of antinomy, valais, Jacques, the invisible college and messengers of deception, the complete works of Gordon Watson, Wells, Herbert George the time machine, whitham, colonel Henry, Explorations of the Upper Amazon Whitehead, Alfred North,…

…relates to a mushroom and mushrooms have a role to play that has not yet been fully re explicated even though people like Gordon Watson and John Allegro and many people have tried to bring it out but the mushroom shamanic complex appears in two forms in…

…of hallucinogens in European History is the Ellison Ian Mysteries and probably you're familiar with. Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very convincingly that the Ellison Ian Mystery…

…the world looking at these shamanic hallucinogenic drug complexes. I mentioned soma in India probably Amanita muscaria in the opinion of Gordon Watson I think that it's more likely that it was a Stropharia and I will talk about the mushrooms when I get…

…overlaid over what I just described is big Surprise a voice a everybody knows this who has to do with this stuff? Gordon Watson Richard Schulte's Albert Hoffman the giants know that this stuff is animate. This is not a drug it's something which is…

…to a mushroom and mushrooms have a role to play that has not yet been fully re explicated even though people like Gordon Watson and John Allegro and many people have tried to bring it out. But the mushroom shamanic complex appears in two forms in…

…role of hallucinogens in European History is the eleusinian mysteries and probably you're familiar with Albert Hoffman Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson wrote a book called the road to elusives in which they argue very very convincingly that the eleusinian mystery…

…the world looking at these shamanic hallucinogenic drug complexes. I mentioned soma in India probably Amanita muscaria in the opinion of Gordon Watson I think that it's more likely that it was a Stropharia and I will talk about the mushrooms when I get…

…as though they were possessed and look to people as the reports began to filter out aha another mushroom cult and Gordon Watson and his people went and made extensive collections and the problem was that the mushrooms a number of species were indicated…

…concerned with flowering plants, not fungi. Collectively we seemed to remember that in the oaxacan mushroom ritual described by Gordon Watson, Mushrooms were always eaten in pairs, with several pairs consumed. We determined to eat six mushrooms each that same…

…to explore presently afforded by societies living throughout the world. There are of course the psilocybin complex discovered by Gordon Watson the magic mushrooms of Central Mexico which may have played a role in the mayan and toltec civilizations, and…

…and put in place archaic options which will restore this balance. And to the good credit of people like dick Schultes and Gordon Watson and Albert Hoffman we have in this century taken into our hands the tools the information and the means to do this.…

…shamanic model for those of us who wander in the prodigal's desert of materialism and through the work of people like Gordon Watson and Richard Evans Schultes and in the 19th century Richard spruce. The tools have been catalogued, the magical plants and I…

…feel like you're strangling. Or Amanita muscaria is a very controversial shamanic plant because some people say it's garbage and Gordon Watson in his last book called it the supreme entheogen of all time. Well, clearly people are talking about different…

…which we have not the faintest inkling. So are there questions or debate in the back, don? Oh yes there's a wonderful story, a Gordon Watson story where he took, I think, 12 grams or anyway a lot in Oaxaca Up on a mountain and he sang all night long…

…To me, it was astonishing that a voice could address you in that state and impart information and dialogue with you. Gordon Watson who discovered the psilocybin mushrooms or who formally brought them to the attention of western science, he also wrote about…

…way deeper into the interior of the new continents that it proposed to put under European sway at last, at last in 1953, Gordon Watson Glimpsed the final illusion. It lay like the body of osiris like the body of eros, lost since the fall of paganism…

…has done psychedelic research, research on consciousness in America, has stood on the shoulders of giants. People like Robert Gordon Watson, the discoverer of the magic mushrooms in Mexico, the man who propounded and founded the field of ethnobotany, people…

…as a matter of fact he is a thinker of extreme breadth and depth. It was he working with Karl Ruck and Gordon Watson, who proposed that it was actually psychoactive ergot alkaloids that lay behind the eleusinian mysteries and thereby rubbed the nose of…

…was again engaged in the investigation of the hallucinogen in the cucurbit. Since then I have worked in collaboration with Gordon Watson, the famous ethnomycologist with whom I have worked in the research of Mexican plants and Carl Röck professor at Boston…

…or two plants can have major experiences. Again this was brought to scientific attention and introduced in international horticulture by Gordon Watson in the early 60s in the early 60s. It hasn't been around very long. It's kind of identified as cannibalism.…

…of these toxins through the animals systems and they would drink a potion that was well yes I mean, I really respect Gordon Watson but in this particular area I think he spread more confusion than light. It is certainly true that Amanita muscaria is a…