• Robert Gordon Wasson (September 22, 1898 – December 23, 1986) was an American author, ethnomycologist, and a Vice President for Public Relations at J...
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    key participant in the CIA MK-ULTRA mind-control program. In 1957, R. Gordon Wasson, the vice president of J.P. Morgan, published an article in Life magazine...
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    María Sabina's interactions with the Western world, starting with R. Gordon Wasson, have been described, from an indigenous perspective, as "a story of...
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    mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wasson was one of the...
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  • London University in 1927, one year after she married her husband R. Gordon Wasson, a banker. She worked as a pediatrician, publishing research on sinusitis...
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    Council on Foreign Relations in January 1947, international banker R. Gordon Wasson suggested that he share his views in an article for Foreign Affairs...
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    Valentina Pavlovna Wasson and M. R. Gordon Wasson". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 242: 965, 968. Heim R, Wasson G (1956). "Les champignons...
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    "thorn-apple". Ethnobotanical and ethnomycological scholars such as R. Gordon Wasson, Carl Ruck and Clark Heinrich write that the mythological apple is...
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    Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Richard Evans Schultes, Jonathan Ott and R. Gordon Wasson). The term is derived from two words of Ancient Greek, ἔνθεος (éntheos)...
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    book of the series contains identifications of five plant entheogens. R. Gordon Wasson, Richard Evans Schultes, and Albert Hofmann have suggested that the...
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    multiple people Gordon Waller (1945–2009), Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, one half of the duo Peter and Gordon R. Gordon Wasson (1898–1986), American...
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    like Christian Rätsch, Jochen Gartz, and the late ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson. He translated Albert Hofmann's 1979 book LSD: My Problem Child (LSD:...
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    Carl A.P. Ruck, Jeremy Bigwood, Danny Staples, Jonathan Ott, and R. Gordon Wasson proposed the term "entheogen" to describe the religious or spiritual...
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    N-Dimethyltryptamine Psychedelic experience Peyote song Reuben Snake R. Gordon Wasson Terry, M. (2017). "Lophophora williamsii". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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  • psilocybin mushrooms and ego death. Interviewees include María Sabina, R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, William Richards, Paul Stamets and...
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  • experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". R. Gordon Wasson had a funded expedition in 1956 by the CIA's MK-Ultra subproject 58...
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  • conversation between a patient (Albert Hofmann), a nurse and a doctor (R. Gordon Wasson), which occurs after the event in "Rosetta Stoned". The song generally...
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  • proposals were made, including one in 1968 by the American banker R. Gordon Wasson, an amateur ethnomycologist, who asserted that soma was an inebriant...
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  • Guardian, Gottlieb was known as "the CIA's chief poison-maker". In 1955, R. Gordon Wasson decided to participate in a sacred Indian ceremony that was held in...
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    2009-02-13. Wasson, R. Gordon (1980). The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill. pp. 43–44. ISBN 978-0-07-068443-0. Wasson, Soma, p....
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  • Staples translated the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and contributed with R. Gordon Wasson, Jonathan Ott and Ruck to the chapter in which the term "entheogen"...
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    Heim in 1956 based on material collected by American ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson in Paso de Cortés, on the slopes of Popocatépetl mountain in Mexico...
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    Pavlovna Wasson and R. Gordon Wasson became the first known European Americans to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony. The Wassons did...
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    Disappointing Career of Major James R. Wasson" (PDF). Army History (Winter-Spring 2004). U. S. Army Center of Military History. Gordon, Leonard. (1965). "Japan's...
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    Life magazine published "Seeking the Magic Mushroom", an article by R. Gordon Wasson about the use of psilocybin mushrooms in religious rites of the indigenous...
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    : 16  American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson and his wife Valentina P. Wasson, a physician, studied the ritual use of psychoactive...
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  • "; Wasson, R. Gordon. . 1974. (Bk. Rev.). Economic Botany vol. 28(3):245–246. A review of Carlos Castaneda's "Tales of Power."; Wasson, R. Gordon. 1977a...
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  • experience enlightenment. In May 1957, the banker and ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson published an article in the Life, Seeking the Magic Mushroom, describing...
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  • Secret of the Mysteries, co-authored by Ruck with Albert Hofmann and R. Gordon Wasson, makes a case that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion...
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    version of the carbine rifle was known to be subject to this problem. R. Gordon Wasson, later the head of public relations for J.P. Morgan & Co., argued that...
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