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Maria Sabina and Her Mushroom Velada (Ethno-mycological studies)

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This is among the finest--from the perspectives of production qualities, scholarship, and content--of publications documenting indigenous healing ceremonies which employ psychoactive sacraments. The publisher's box contains a 9 x 12 inch clothbound book, 4 cassette tapes recording the ceremony in a separate folio clothbound box, and folio-sized softbound musical score. The hardbound book is 282 pp bound in tan cloth with a red Mazatec embroidery design, and is primarily a tri-lingual (Mazatec, Spanish, and English) transcription of the ceremony. It also includes General Index, Analytical Index, Notes on the Mazatec Language (George M Cowan), Musicological Notes on the Ceremony (Willard Rhodes). The set is rare, especially in good condition, and of interest to collectors and libraries. Transcriptions, commentaries, and CDs of Maria Sabina's work are available at moderate prices in publications with ordinary production qualities.

Bret Blosser

Very authentic, very true, and very rare from what I gather. Strangely I found this book at a bookstore where I got it for the price of its weight !!!!!!!!!11 Dream on, if u do manage to get your hands on it. You'll certainly like.... worth not one but numerous reads !

"Maria Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy