* Foreword and first chapter from The Road to Eleusis R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck

The American banker and amateur ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson proposed that the fly agaric was in fact the soma of the ancient Rig Veda texts of India ; since its introduction in 1968 this theory has gained both followers and detractors in anthropological literature.

* The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries by R. Gordon Wasson, Dr. Albert Hoffman ( the inventor of LSD ) and Prof. Carl Ruck

A number of ethnomycologists such as R. Gordon Wasson, John Marco Allegro, and Terence McKenna, have suggested that most characteristics of manna are similar to that of Psilocybe cubensis mushrooms, notorious breeding grounds for insects, which decompose rapidly.

A number of proposals were made, including one in 1968 by the American banker R. Gordon Wasson, an amateur ethnomycologist, who asserted that soma was an inebriant, and suggested fly-agaric mushroom, Amanita muscaria, as the likely candidate.

R. Gordon Wasson recounted the details of these deaths, noting the likelihood of Amanita poisoning.

In 1957, R. Gordon Wasson, the vice president of J. P. Morgan, published an article in Life extolling the virtues of magic mushrooms.

In 1955, Valentina and R. Gordon Wasson became the first Westerners to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony.

Many of the animated shorts were created by cartoonists who later became more prominent, including Bob Boyle, Thomas R. Fitzgerald, Bill Burnett, Jaime Diaz, Greg Emison, John Eng, John Fountain, Antoine Guilbaud, Butch Hartman, Larry Huber, Steve Marmel, Zac Moncrief, Ken Kessel, Alex Kirwan, Seth MacFarlane, Carlos Ramos, Rob Renzetti, C. Miles Thompson, Byron Vaughns, Pat Ventura, Vincent Waller and David Wasson.

However, in 1955, Valentina and R. Gordon Wasson became the first Westerners to actively participate in an indigenous mushroom ceremony.

The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson.

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# Wasson, Ruck, Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.

* 1948 – Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul-General assassinated in Jerusalem.

On 23 May 1948 Thomas C. Wasson, US Consul and member of the UN Truce Commission was assassinated in Jerusalem.

On April 15, 1948, the American Consul in Jerusalem, Thomas C. Wasson, reported that an " American correspondent eye witnessed removal from trucks large quantities of arms and ammuntion and speculated whether for escort or other purpose.

In May 1948 the US Consul, Thomas C. Wasson, was assassinated outside the YMCA building.

It has been suggested by Wasson, Schultes, and Hofmann that

Together, Wasson and botanist Roger Heim collected and identified various species of family Strophariaceae and genus Psilocybe, while Albert Hofmann, using material grown by Heim from specimens collected by the Wassons, identified the chemical structure of the active compounds, psilocybin and psilocin.

Hofmann and Wasson were also among the first Westerners to collect specimens of the Mazatec hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, though these specimens were later deemed not suitable for rigorous scientific study or taxonomic classification.

On the 1962 expedition organized by R. Gordon Wasson to see Maria Sabina, Hofmann came along and brought a bottle of psilocybin pills.

" Of course ," Wasson recalls of the encounter, " Albert Hofmann is so conservative he always gives too little a dose, and it didn't have any effect.

* The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, with R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann and Blaise Daniel Staples ( 1978, ISBN 978-1-55643-752-6 )

Even D. A. Wasson, who compared The Emancipation Of Massachusetts to the lifting of a fog from ancient landscapes, was also forced to admit the methodological deficiencies of the author.

The current faces of Maybelline are Turlington, Julia Stegner, Christy Turlington, Jessica White, Erin Wasson, Kemp Muhl, Emily DiDonato, Lisalla Montenegro, and Shu Pei.

Wasson and his co-author, Wendy Doniger O ' Flaherty, drew parallels between Vedic descriptions and reports of Siberian uses of the fly-agaric in shamanic ritual.

In India, Wasson identified Psilocybe cubenis as " easily identified and gathered, and are effective ", and went so far as to hypothesize, " the possible role of Stropharia cubensis Psilocybe cubensis growing in the dung of cattle in the lives of the lower orders remains to this day wholly unexplored.

It refers to ' twigs ' according to Dieter Taillieu, ' stalk ' according to Robert Wasson, ' fibre ' or ' flesh ' according to Ilya Gershevitch, ' sprouts ' according to Lawrence Heyworth Mills.

Ghost Story, starring Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Craig Wasson, was filmed in part at Stetson University and the Holiday House.

From A Survey of Hancock County, Maine: By Samuel Wasson, Pub.