Juatla de Jiminez, Mexico, Summer, 1964. Robin Hughes and me in this electricity-free village high in Sierra Mazateca between the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz. We're on our way to the top of the distant mountain, hoping to buy some magic mushrooms from Maria Sabina, a curandera who lived there and whom we'd read about in Life magazine. She was famous for turning-on the Montana-born corporate banker R. Gordon Wasson (J. P. Morgan &Co.) In a curious bit of neo-colonialism, the psciliciben mushrooms were later named Wassonii, celebrating the white ethnobotonist instead of the Indian witch who first introduced him to his "discovery."