Maria Sabina
María Sabina (* probably 1894 in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca / Mexico ; † November 23, 1985 ) was a Mazatec shaman .
Sabina was the curandera (i.e. healing priestess , shaman), from whose hand R. Gordon Wasson and his photographer Alan Richardson the hallucinogenic and entheogenic bald head mushroom Psilocybe caerulescens var. Mazatecorum for the first time on the night of June 29th to 30th, 1955 received during a shamanic session. From then until her death, she passed on her knowledge of the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms to those interested.
In the fall of 1962 she led a Velada (in the house of the Mazatec interpreter Dona Herlinda in Huautla de Jiménez) with R. Gordon Wasson , among others ,Albert Hofmann and his wife, with whom she first used synthetic psilocybin in the form of pills with 5 mg each. Maria Sabina herself took a total of six pills, while Wasson only received two and Ms. Hofmann only one. After the nightly ceremony, she confirmed that the pills had the same effect as the mushrooms.
Web links
- Literature by and about María Sabina in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sabina, María |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican shaman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jiménez, Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1985 |