By Rosalind Watts, Sam Gandy, Alex Evans — 2019
Psychedelics offer a sense of expansive connectedness, just like astronauts have felt looking back to Earth from space.
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María Sabina was well-respected in the village as a healer and shaman. She’d been consuming psilocybin mushrooms regularly since she was seven years old, and had performed the velada mushroom ceremony for over 30 years before Wasson arrived.
In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.