Review: 'Sacred Mushroom of Visions - Teonanacatl'

Originally published in 2004 'Sacred Mushroom of Visions: Teonanacatl' is a relatively comprehensive sourcebook on the psilocybin mushroom. The book is edited by Ralph Metzner, who's history with the psychedelic movement dates back to the Harvard Psilocybin Project. It contains contributions from a wide range of individuals and contains elements of science, theory, history and experiential accounts of the psilocybin experience.

The name Teonanacatl comes from the Nahuatl language of the Aztec people; usually translated as "God's flesh", R. Gordon Wasson, the banker who brought the ritual use of psilocybin to the notice of the West, believed it more correctly translated as "wonderous mushroom." This sets the thrust of the book, which largely takes the view of an entheogenic discourse about the psychedelic...