The famous shaman It was even more popular with the visit of great personalities, among writers, journalists, academics and even rock stars, the first foreigner to meet María Sabina was Robert Gordon Wasson.
He has been the pioneer writer in the study of ethnobotany and specialized in ethnomycology who came to Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca in Mexico to have an encounter with the Mazatec healer from this place.
Few could believe that a JP Morgan Chase vice president banker was in Mexico to meet with the famous Mexican shaman, but it has been the June 29 and 30, 1955 when the native of Montana, the United States was in front of María Sabina.
the mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson participated in the famous mushroom ceremonya moment that would start a series of international visits in Oaxaca, from Albert Hofmann to The Beatles, had the same experience with La Niña de Huautla.
The sociologist and editor of Pajamasurf Juan Pablo Carrillo Hernández assures that this character opened the door in Mexico and specifically in oaxaca to tourism in search of mushrooms, a key moment in the psychedelic revolution from the 60s.
It could be said that the second foreigner registered as visiting María Sabina is the photographer who accompanied Robert Gordon Wasson on his trips to Mexico, his name is Allan Richardson, from England, United Kingdom.
Although the American’s visit undoubtedly contributed to putting the name of María Sabina on the history of the psychedelic mushroomsthe reality is that the shaman and healer did not like receiving visitors at all.
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Although it is assured that between the two characters there was a friendship It was María Sabina herself who declared that she had to accept your visit almost by force, since he was accompanied by a local authority, the officer named Cayetano Mendoza.
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