Maria sabina biography

María Sabina was a Mazatec poet and sabia, or “one who knows”. She lived a modest life in an Oaxacan village in southern Mexico and dedicated much of her life to healing others through sacred psilocybin mushroom ceremonies.

She accidentally became famous after conducting one of the sacred ceremonies for a foreigner named Robert Gordon Wasson. He wrote an article about her and her sacred practice, majorly influencing the1960s psychedelic counterculture in America.

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But before being ‘discovered’ by the Western world, María Sabina had her own complex life and local influence that had been neglected by media outlets during that time. Her image and identity, along with the sacred practice of mushroom rituals, have been exploited and commodified over the years, leaving only a shallow rendition of who she was and what she stood for.

As we move past the exoticized lens of María Sabina and explore the deeper layers of her life, we fi