María Sabina - La Curandera

María Sabina was a mexican Curandera (spanish for "healer" or "shaman"), known to be the first one to allow westerners to participate in mushroom healing rituals. In 1955, the US ethnomycologist and banker R. Gordon Wasson visited María Sabina's hometown and participated in a healing with her. He collected spores of the fungus, which he identified as Psilocybe mexicana, and took them to Paris. The fungus was cultivated in Europe and its primary psychoactive ingredient, psilocybin, was isolated in the laboratory by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in 1958. This is the card #01 in The Shamans series of Fractal Trading Cards.