…us out of ethnography and anthropology, out of the work of Wasson and Hoffman and earlier, Havelock, Ellis and Weir, Mitchell, Henri Michaud, all the people who worked with psychedelics. At first it was worked with by artists, by literary people, by people…

…us out of ethnography and anthropology, out of the work of Wasson and Hoffman and earlier, Havelock, Ellis and Weir, Mitchell, Henri Michaud, all the people who worked with psychedelics. At first it was worked with by artists, by literary people, by people…

…when I say it but the mushroom speaks. It talks to you. The mazatecans claim this and Gordon Wasson claims it and Andre Michaud said: how is it possible? He said it's absurd. It's absurd that a mushroom should speak. How is it possible? But it does.…

…you might have about what reality is. You certainly have to do that when it begins to speak to you. I mean there was Henri Michaud, a surrealist poet and he was outraged that things could be that zany. He thought it was all you know poses. But no,…

…river who was getting the evergreen review in 1961, 62 63 and they were publishing people like the French Surrealist Henri Michaud they published parts of Terry Southern's book red dirt marijuana, and I just became obsessed with locating these things. My…

…see what I had done is I'd read Huxley, then I'd gone back to havelock Ellis the dance of life and Henri Michaud the miserable miracle and people like that and havelock Ellis talks about ruined buildings of great antiquity drooping with opalescent jewels…