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Frauds / Re: Keewaydinoquay Margaret Peschel
« Last post by WINative on February 20, 2024, 05:46:18 am »The Margaret Cook Peschel story gets much crazier. This is excepts from the attached pdf about Robert Gordon Wasson who appropriated the psilocybin mushrooms from Maria Sabina a Mazatec Indigenous woman under funding from the CIA which later illegally tested psychedelic drugs on military and prisoners.
https://fungimag.com/winter-2015-articles/V8I4_Wasson_LR.pdf
In 1957, Wall Street banker Gordon Wasson wrote a feature article for Life magazine about eating psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Mexico, thus inaugurating a global interest in magic mushrooms, so-called.
Because of his devotion to entheogens and also because he was known to have rather loose purse strings, he attracted acolytes not only among ordinary folks in search of a high, but also among scholars. Enter a woman from northern Michigan named Margaret Peschel. (AKA Keewaydioquay)
In 1976, Gordon visited her on Garden Island in Lake Michigan, where she had been living a hermitlike existence. The next year he visited her again. This time she gave him several dried Amanita muscaria to eat.
Probably due to his wealth, Wasson had a certain amount of clout at Harvard University, and in 1978 he helped Kee get a book entitled Puhpowee for the People published under the auspices of Harvard’s Botanical Museum. She published a second book called Muskwedo about mushrooms.
In 1978, she claimed to have eaten this mighty mushroom for shamanic purposes for the past fifty years, which, if true, means that she would have begun eating it at age nine.
Wasson got Kee a gig at a 1978 conference on psychoactive drugs in San Francisco, where she told a rapt audience that the sacred quality of A. muscaria.
https://fungimag.com/winter-2015-articles/V8I4_Wasson_LR.pdf
In 1957, Wall Street banker Gordon Wasson wrote a feature article for Life magazine about eating psilocybin-containing mushrooms in Mexico, thus inaugurating a global interest in magic mushrooms, so-called.
Because of his devotion to entheogens and also because he was known to have rather loose purse strings, he attracted acolytes not only among ordinary folks in search of a high, but also among scholars. Enter a woman from northern Michigan named Margaret Peschel. (AKA Keewaydioquay)
In 1976, Gordon visited her on Garden Island in Lake Michigan, where she had been living a hermitlike existence. The next year he visited her again. This time she gave him several dried Amanita muscaria to eat.
Probably due to his wealth, Wasson had a certain amount of clout at Harvard University, and in 1978 he helped Kee get a book entitled Puhpowee for the People published under the auspices of Harvard’s Botanical Museum. She published a second book called Muskwedo about mushrooms.
In 1978, she claimed to have eaten this mighty mushroom for shamanic purposes for the past fifty years, which, if true, means that she would have begun eating it at age nine.
Wasson got Kee a gig at a 1978 conference on psychoactive drugs in San Francisco, where she told a rapt audience that the sacred quality of A. muscaria.