The Shroom Shamaness

Maria Sabina

Maria Sabina’s ancient ancestors originally called shrooms the “flesh of the gods”, but after the Spanish Catholic conquest of the Aztec Empire, their beliefs were syncretized so Maria called shrooms “God’s flesh”. However, she liked to refer to them as the “holy children”. It all began one day in 1902 when she was sitting under a tree with her sister and they happened to notice a bunch of magic mushrooms…