Was mostly impossible to find it for decades, this Maria Sabina's shamanic songs now has been re-published in CD format. Please Check MJ's interesting comment, & we are not yet sure if this CD edition could be Bootleg or not. (N+)

P.S. 30th Sep/2003: UPDATED NEWS.
Finaly confirmed that This is private version & Bootleg CD.
We can NOT take any responsabilty even if this information is not reliable.however, this shamanic songs are worth to listen always. And also I haerd from many people that after this Records came out (1956), M.sabina had lost muchshamanic power .
Wel, I am not Castanedian but believe so lots stay in Mistery ... (N+)


Maria Sabina And The Boy Who Received The Now Famous Velada
Recorded By Dr. Gordon Wasson Himself in 1958

" MARIA SABINA" AND HER MAZATEC Mushroom Velada
Published January 8, 1975
Now Available On CD!

" HERE IS A SHAMANIC PERFORMANCE COMPLETE. DR WASSON, A PIONEER IN THE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF MUSHROOMS IN RELIGIOUS RITUAL, GIVES US A TRANSCRIPTION OF AN AUTHENTIC "CONSULTATION" OF THE SACRED MUSHROOM, IN SOUND...."

Only 250 copies were made of the record set. Out of these, only 175 were ever put up for sale.....$250.00 each! I am about to get a limited number (100 each serialized, and listed price $125.00) of the original tracks, re-digitally mastered on a 3 CD set!

That is the full 3 hour and 5 minute recording. The Musical Score and photographs are included. Now, this very important part of mushroom history will live forever, exactly as it was recorded (somewhat over modulated in the beginning) by Dr. Wasson, even though they have both now passed on. A collector's item for sure.

To insure you get this one of a kind 3 CD set, send $50.00 to:
FMRC, POB 18105, Pensacola, FL 32523 U.S.A.
Overseas and Out Of Country $65.00.
CD's should be in hand and ready for shipping OCT 2003.
Stephen L. Peele, Curator FMRC

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posted Mjshroomer September 26, 2003 12:29 PM
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The original(1956) and the two 1975 editions were actually translated by Florence Cowan and Dr. Willard Rhodes, and one had commentaries by Eunice Pike, one of the two missionaries (the other Florence Cowan) who also helpped in the translations and her and Florence Pike lived amongst the Mazatec for many years. they were Radcliff bible scholars who translated the Mazatec into text and then into Spanish and the Spanish into English for R. Gordon and Valentina Wasson. Some of which had a little nahuautl which is the language of the Mazatec.
So I am wondering which editions of this great record do you have?
Here are the three copies, the first one produced one in 1956 which was the first record set and then the two in the 1975 period (A CASSETTE SET WITH THE PICTURES and text included).

Here are their references from my bibliography of Entheogenic Fungi.

Sabina, Marìa. 1959. (Record). Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico. Recorded by R. Gordon and Valentina Wasson with commentaries by Eunice Pike and Sarah C. Godschinsky. Record # Fr.8975.
Folkway Records. 121 W. 47th Street. New York #36, New YorK.
Maria Sabina. 1975a. (Casettes). María Sabina and her Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Text and cassettes: Recorded by R. Gordon and Valentina Wasson. Harcourt, Brace and Janovich. New York.
Maria Sabina. 1975b. (Casette). María Sabina and her Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Record and book. Recorded by R. Gordon Wasson, Florence Cowan and Willard Rhodes. Pr. cassette by Brace, Janovich and Harcourt. New York. $85.00.

And under the heading of Wasson and Wasson:
" Wasson, R. Gordon and Valentina P. Wasson. 1956. (Record). Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico. Recorded by R. Gordon Wasson, with translations by Eunice V. Pike and Sarah C. Cudschinsky. Folkway Records and Service Corporation, 121 West 47th Street, New York, New York. Record Listing no. Fr8975.
Extracts of a mushroom ceremony recorded in Huautla de Jiménez."
And regarding your statement, "THE OCCASION WAS THE ILLNESS OF A YOUTH. THE MUSHROOM, THROUGH THE MOUTH OF MARIA SABINA, A FEMALE SHAMAN, DECREED THAT THE BOY MUST DIE. HE HEARD THE BAD NEWS AND DIED DAYS LATER."

That boy in the life magazine was her son Aureulio. It was many years later after that recording that the Maria Sabina saw her son murdered and weeks later he was (with a knife or gun), but i do not believe that is on those tapes. That session in Huautla de Jiménez was for a different illness. and the photo from the Life Magazine article of May 13, 1957 proclaims her son Aurelio is lying therere in a state of ecstacy
He died years after those musical chants werets were recorded. not as you quoted above. and he was murdered in Maria Sabina's own home.

How did you(Stephen L. Peele) get permission to promote those CD's?

I have been denied that permission for years and also I am also denied any access to any Harvard Wason Materials from the harvard collections, even though I have a note of permission from RGW. I was actually denied permission by Lisa de Caesares and Masha Wasson Briton herself, whom in the 1980s I had communicted with several times on the telephone from Hawaii.

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