The Mazatec Shamans are known for their ritual use of psilocybin mushrooms, psychoactive morning glory seeds, and Salvia divinorum. María Sabina was one of the best known of the Mazatec Shamans.[1] Her healing psilocybin mushroom ceremonies, called veladas, contributed to the popularization of indigenous Mexican ritual use of entheogenic mushrooms among westerners.[2]
In their rituals, Mazatec shamans use fresh Salvia divinorum leaves. Ritual use traditionally involves being in a quiet place after ingestion of the leaf—the Mazatec shamans say that "La Maria (S. divinorum) speaks with a quiet voice."[3]
There is little information concerning the Mazatec people generally before the arrival of the Spanish and less concerning their spiritual practices.
Several researchers[who?] have commented on the difficulty in obtaining information, as the Mazatec shamans tend to be secretive and protective of their practices.
^Wasson, R Gordon (1970-09-26). "Drugs: The Sacred Mushroom". The New York Times. p. 29.
^"Wasson and the Psychedelic Revolution". 2019-06-01. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
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recorded in print by Jean Basset Johnson in 1939 while he was studying Mazatecshamanism. He later documented its use and reported its effects through personal...
seeds. María Sabina was one of the best known of the MazatecShamans. Julieta Casimiro, a Mazatec Healer, has gained international recognition as a member...
mushrooms likely to have been used by the Aztecs and is currently used by Mazatecshamans for its entheogenic properties. The taste and smell of Psilocybe caerulescens...
shamans use ayahuasca (yagé), a hallucinogenic brew, for this purpose. Mazatecshamans have a long and continuous tradition of religious use of Salvia divinorum...
used by the shamanic hunter-gatherer cultures of the Great Plains region. Other plants with ritual significance in North American shamanism are the hallucinogenic...
mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wasson was one of the first Westerners to participate in a Mazatec ceremony and to describe...
named after the Mazatec people, who are indigenous to the area. Notable figures from the area include María Sabina Magdalena García, a shaman and poet. Its...
and swallow the leaves of fresh salvia to enter into a shamanic state of consciousness. The Mazatec use the plant in both divination and healing ceremonies...
cyanopus, and C. smithii. Conocybe siligineoides was used for shamanic purposes by the Mazatecs of Oaxaca. Conocybe filaris is a common lawn mushroom that...
used by South American healers in shamanic healing ceremonies. Similarly, ingestion of morning glory seeds by Mazatec tribes to "commune with their gods"...
form as the morning star, Venus, he is also depicted as a harpy eagle. In Mazatec legends, the astrologer deity Tlahuizcalpanteuctli, who is also represented...
often have to be repeated. However, in heavily tonal languages such as Mazatec and Yoruba, a large amount of information is conveyed through pitch even...
has a long continuing tradition of use as an entheogen by indigenous Mazatecshamans, who use it to facilitate visionary states of consciousness during...
"Drug Addictions, Hallucinogens and Shamanism: the View from Anthropology". Drug Addictions, Hallucinogens and Shamanism. Townsend Letter for Doctors and...
hallucinogenic mushrooms, including P. cubensis. Isauro Nava Garcia, a Mazatec man, provided guidance to Heim while Heim conducted his field and culture...
on 2012-11-22. DeKorne, Jim (2011). Psychedelic shamanism: the cultivation, preparation, and shamanic use of psychotropic plants (Rev. ed.). Berkeley...
"naturopathy" from John Scheel. Maria Sabina – Mexican healer, mystic leader of Mazatec people, curandero specializing in the native psilocybe mushrooms. Caroline...
as the ancient and entheogenic use of psilocybe mushrooms by the native Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico or the use of the ayahuasca brew in the Amazon...
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good and bad omen days; a religious complex based on a combination of shamanism and natural deities, and a shared system of symbols Language: a linguistic...
medicine)--interface between traditional and modern medicine among the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 121 (3): 383–399. doi:10...
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