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Psilocybin Mushrooms

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Aug 1960

Timothy Leary first ingests psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

"I ate seven of the sacred mushrooms of Mexico and discovered that beauty, revelation, sensuality, the cellular history of the past, God, the Devil--all lie inside my body, outside my mind."

References
Leary T. High Priest. Ronin Pub, 1995.

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