“Seeking the Magic Mushroom” was a 1957 photo essay by amateur mycologist Robert Gordon Wasson[1] describing his experience taking psilocybin mushrooms in 1955 during a Mazatec[2] ritual in Oaxaca, Mexico. Wasson was one of the first Westerners to participate in a Mazatec ceremony and to describe the psychoactive effects of the Psilocybe species. Psilocybin mushrooms, often referred to as “magic mushrooms,”