[7], In 1958, the French mycologist Roger Heim brought psilocybin tablets to Mara Sabina and the first velada using the active principle of the mushrooms rather than the raw mushrooms themselves took place. In 1962, R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann went to Mexico to visit her. They also brought a bottle of psilocybin pills. [citation needed] Academics note that before Wasson's account, there was "little to no evidence" of the medicinal properties of the psilocybin mushrooms in western scientific literature, thus confirming the pivotal role that Sabina and the Mazatec community had in all Western uses of the mushrooms. The process of the velada is roughly formulated as follows: 1.) They don't ever use them forrecreation or to 'find god.' However Angelo has a kind and caring, positive vibe and throughout my whole ceremony, knew when to adjust the setting and the energy to keep things positive and flowing. Once the story was told in Life Magazine, it quickly escaped the borders of Mexico and became part of the great debate on who we are and where we came from. With lots of love and respect.
