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History & Pioneers
Discover the rich history of magic mushrooms, from ancient cave paintings to the modern psychedelic renaissance. Meet the pioneers — like María Sabina, R. Gordon Wasson, and Albert Hofmann — who changed the world. Explore the key moments that shaped our understanding of psilocybin.
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The Hofmann psilocybin isolation is one of those moments in science that looks small on paper but reshaped a whole century of human curiosity. Specifically, in early 1958, a Swiss chemist at the Sandoz laboratories in…
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On a hillside in Lafayette, California, behind a rambling old farmhouse surrounded by almond trees, stood a tiny wooden shed. Inside that shed — no bigger than a walk-in closet — Alexander Sasha Shulgin quietly rewrote…
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John W. Allen: The Ethnomycologist Who Brought the World’s Most Famous Cubensis Strains to the West
March 23, 2026
Working with a Cambodian, Koh Samui, or Pink Buffalo spore print? You're holding living history. One man collected, preserved and shared most of these genetics with the world. His name is John W. Allen – better known as…
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Gabor Maté: The Doctor Who Changed How We Think About Trauma and Psychedelics (2026 Update)
March 23, 2026
Gabor Maté: The Doctor Who Changed How We Think About Trauma and Psychedelics (2026 Update) Few voices in modern medicine have been as clear, or as challenging, as Gabor Maté's. As a physician who spent over a decade on…
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In the 1960s, two Harvard professors changed how the Western world thinks about consciousness. Timothy Leary and Ram Dass — then known as Richard Alpert — started as academic colleagues. They ended up as icons of the…
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Rick Doblin and MAPS: The Man Who Never Gave Up on Psychedelic Therapy (2026 Update)
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Michael Mosley's Psilocybin Brain Effects on BBC TV
March 23, 2026
In 2011, BBC presenter and doctor Michael Mosley volunteered for a clinical trial that measured the psilocybin brain effects in real time. The resulting footage — broadcast as part of the BBC documentary Horizon: The…
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R. Gordon Wasson was a New York banker. In 1955, he sat in a candlelit hut in the mountains of Mexico and ate magic mushrooms with a Mazatec healer. Two years later, he told the world about it. Nothing in mushroom…
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Albert Hofmann — Father of LSD and Pioneer of Psilocybin
September 12, 2023
Albert Hofmann is a name that echoes through the history of science — and through the minds of everyone who has ever felt curious about consciousness. Born on January 11, 1906, in Baden, Switzerland, this quiet,…
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Terence McKenna: The Godfather of Psychedelic Culture
April 6, 2023
Writer, lecturer, ethnobotanist, psychonaut, mystic — Terence McKenna remains one of the most influential figures in the history of psychedelic culture. He spent his life advocating for the exploration of altered states…
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