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this member of the mushroom family

this fungus is for the moment known only

as x

it was discovered barely weeks ago

growing in a remote rainforest

science has not yet given it a name for

science knows scarcity anything about it

but it is felt that x might have one

remarkable quality

that it stimulates extra sensory

perception

enabling the mind to become telepathic

and clairvoyant now that's a rather

large claim

is it true or false the answer to that

question

took us on a unique and distant journey

we're in mexico thousands of miles from

our hollywood sound stages in a place

called meetla

on the very edge of civilization there

are no actors there's no script

for this psychic report can only be

recorded at the moment it happens

here in the plaza of the kings of

zapotec here in the antiquity of mexico

we begin a search whose ending at this

very moment of filming

we do not know we are searching for

something far

older than these ruins which if found

could hurt an ordinary man infinitely

beyond his five senses

and now the first step beyond the first

step

is a faltering one we wait day after day

for perfect flying weather

for the only way to reach our goal the

inaccessible village of huquila

is by light plain over trackless

mountains has he come back yet

no well keep your fingers crossed

this lovely hacienda at the foot of the

dombach mountains

has been here a little longer than we

have but not much

from here weather permitting our

chartered plane will apply us to a

remote mountain village

to look for of all things a mushroom

but a very strange mushroom indeed

with powers beyond belief and here are

the mushroom hunters

as improbable a group as you will find

anywhere for instance

this is dr barbara brown brilliant

neuropharmacologist

of the university of california at los

angeles

with her is david gray one of the last

kahunas of hawaii a spiritual leader

whose line goes back 900 years

and whose quest for knowledge beyond the

world of materialism

has led him everywhere in the world and

now

here and here with friend

is jeffrey smith a distinguished

professor of philosophy and humanities

at stamford university

and now and mighty important

is our translator williamson a

missionary who has lived among the

people of our remote village

for the last nine years and the only man

in the world

who speaks their language

the pilot says he'll be ready soon john

and last

our forever optimistic doctor andrei

pouharish

who wrote the astounding book the sacred

mushroom dr paharash's book brought us

here in the first place

and in it he explains how the mushroom

seems to

have an incredible effect on the power

of extra sensory perception

incredible is the word we're here for

some very specific purposes we want to

know why these people here in mexico

have kept this right so secret for so

many centuries

but I would say that our prime mission

is to explore and examine the

biochemicals present in these new

mushrooms and find out if they

can be of any benefit in this problem

of mental disease what dr parish hasn't

told you

it is not all as simple as it sounds the

last time he was here

looking for the mushroom a man was shot

and shot at

and another man was uh driven out of his

mind for a while

in english means the pilot said

now

the shadows of our two small planes fall

on rainforests which hide villages

where the 20th century does not exist

and that's the landing strip chopped by

hand out of a mountainside

missionaries can bring the word of god

to this lost world

as we approach the pilot warns us to

grab hold of something and hang on

a certain gust of wind could smash us

against the mountain

or plunge us into the abyss below

at last we are in the village of hukita

slogging through mud

each of us with an odd sense that all

the clocks have stopped ticking

we've brought television cameras to

people who've never even heard of radio

who've never seen a telephone an

electric light have never heard of

aspirin

let alone penicillin but perhaps the

sacred mushroom has given them a

psychic insight far beyond our deepest

explorations

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he breaks up to go about its various

investigations

dr brown and a missionary nurse named

dean duggan go looking for the mushroom

guarded by armed soldiers because in the

past months

shots have been fired machetes have been

flashed

mushroom hunters who came before us have

been murdered

dr puharish and missionary ups and begin

searching the town for a bruho

a priest of the mushroom cult but

everywhere they go

an iron curtain of silence comes

clanging down

amid much shaking of the head and

wagging of the finger everyone

emphatically denies the existence of a

mushroom cult

and it is made very clear that if this

is why we have come to hukila

we are not welcome

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our search seems hopeless until dr

buharis gets an idea that might help us

push open an ancient door

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bill upson sent through the village

announcing that a free medical clinic is

open to one and all

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within minutes the first patient appears

a little chattino indian with a lot of

aches

and a lot of pains

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and then they come in droves all of them

humble

all of them hopefully

all of them grateful finally the mother

of a child whom dr buhari has treated

timidly suggests that she might help

kindness and a bottle of vitamins have

worked a magic of their own

sometime tonight we will have a visitor

thanks to the help of the sick child's

mother secret arrangements are made

and we are guided to this hidden place

to wait but it is almost midnight before

the brujo appears

he has practiced the secret and all but

forbidden rites of the sacred mushroom

for decades rights passed on from father

to son

for perhaps 4 000 years but of course he

has never performed before such an

audience

or a camera our scientists have prepared

test questions to evaluate the brujo's

extrasensory perception

but he insists on one condition to

achieve spiritual

union they also must eat the mushroom

however in the interest of detached

scientific observation

he agrees that dr brown does not have to

take the mushroom

the rights begin

a strangely aromatic root is burned

inhaled

a language unknown anywhere else on this

earth

as our group waits for the mushroom to

take effect bill ups and questions the

brujo

because of the circumstances the sound

is of course far from perfect

i just asked him when we would see

something when something would happen

and he held up his hand to indicate that

he didn't want to talk at this

particular time

and then silence again as we wait

and then oddly enough the first sound we

hear as the chemical in the mushroom

takes effect

is laughter

the brujo has just told of an amusing

moment from bill's childhood in indiana

indiana a place the brujo does not even

know

exists now each of the group tests the

extrasensory powers of the brujo

sometimes he is accurate sometimes he is

not well

right in the eyes the whole rabbit uh

will brighten your eyes huh

ah that's perfect this means

clairvoyance

right the following is one moment when

he is startlingly correct

suddenly he turns to dr brown whom of

course he has never seen or heard of

before

very good no no

you're still sick because you're sick

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without a moment's hesitation he

accurately diagnosed a personal illness

that only dr brown

knows about

our next experience with a brujo and the

sacred mushroom comes quickly

and unexpectedly and this time it has

nothing to do with scientific

investigation

since it is now common knowledge that we

have already witnessed the right

we are allowed to come along to see a

second priesthood work

a man named macedonia who agreed to take

the mushroom and listen to the villagers

problem

he said his bureau was stolen and he

wants to know where to find it

in this village of huquila the theft of

aburo

a man's most important possession his

donkey

is second only to murder he said three

men

are involved macedonia hardly paused a

moment before he named the thieves

gustavo said he was going to take the

three of them to jail tomorrow

but don't macedonia warned him not to go

near the house of juan and pedro

because they would kill him but to look

for it in the house of jose

we go with the villager through a valley

across fields

past other villages to the exact spot

where macedonia said the borough would

be

and here indeed it is its identifying

brand

clearly marked on the borough's flank

now perhaps we can understand

more or less why for four thousand years

and from one civilization to the next

the sacred mushroom has endured we have

been given a practical demonstration

of how it works in the daily lives of

this primitive people

three weeks have passed and we're a long

way from our remote mountain village of

huquila

in mexico we're also a long way from the

secret rites of the sacred mushroom cup

but our search for the truth about the

mushroom

that is the truth as we understand it is

far from over

these men are our technical crew who

have come with me from los angeles

to help us continue our search

we've come to the home and laboratory of

dr andre pujaris

in northern california for me

personally this next step beyond

may be a rather large one

this is part of the laboratory and study

of dr puharish

here among his solid and sound books of

orthodox medicine

there are also other books they are

written in

french and spanish in english here's one

that says

mushrooms russia in history they're

written

in syrian japanese

all the languages of the world and

they're all concerned with one thing

the same thing the riddle of the sacred

mushroom

now when we were in mexico the brujo who

discovered the stolen bureau

might have been coincidence and the

other brujo who told dr barbara brown

about her past illness might have made a

wild guess

but today we should be able to prove the

case for

or against the mushroom the sacred

mushroom

with quite a lot more accuracy what's

that now john are those the uh

those the mushrooms you brought back

from mexico yes andre how many people

have you tested since you've been back

you'll be number 26 about the results

encouraging the average of the group as

a whole and the series is quite small

you understand

uh shows evidence for extra sensory

perception

after taking the mushrooms well i'm

ready

i'm as ready as i'm ever gonna be well

not quite

yet we have to do some control tests

first

to see if you have any esp before you

take the mushroom oh

i see and these will be done with cards

pictures and books

i see now you just sit still there

look why am I trying to be a great big

psychic without anybody's help from

anything huh

mushrooms from where are you

i'll uh be with you excuse me

john you take your left hand and bring

it in here on this first block

there's a row of ten blocks by you you

bring your right hand

over and you scan this far row

and you remain sensitive any impressions

and when you think you're over the

uh card that matches the one your left

hand is on you pick it up and move it

opposite that car I see

it's it's like like tall buildings in

chicago or new york somewhere

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got your scores added up on that this

test you've got

five hits out of 50. on the book test

here

you've got one out of 16 and you've got

nothing on the pictures

this is a chance score and shows

despite three years with our show I have

what they would call practically no

extra sensory perception at all

what do we do now uh now to eat the

mushrooms

all right i'm ready all right maybe

that's improvement

which ones we're going to eat these are

you have so many here andre

which which one oh these are for you

these are

chew em well when you ingest

not bad are they tastes like mushrooms

and one more for you

i'll drive

all right what now

now we'll lie you down on the bed

uh before who do some physical

testing before the effects of the

mushroom take hold

like what what like what effects uh

you'll find out

well it's been about 20 minutes since

you had the mushroom john how do you

feel

uh fine I feel uh

strong sort of you know it's kind of

hard

strong a sense of

a kind of sense of well-being is that

yes some people feel that way

let's try something

i want you to stand right up here in

front of this life

yes close your eyes and tell me what you

see

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lower your head a little bit a little

more

now

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i see it

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now I see I see so many things I can't

tell you

can't you slow it

now I see like but I see so many colors

that are

you go are they pretty the geometric

signs does not it's like great things

they're magnificent but they are they're

magnificent

i have never been so aware of color

of color it makes me quite dizzy

i feel like I would like to dive into

the middle of it well

we'll try the card test again

now all right same way start with your

left hand and try to find

one in this row

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a very distinct impression of like

the dunes of a desert or or

like half hoops

find the other

that's pretty close john

want to try another one please

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it has

it has a great deal it has something

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like like noise

i don't know how to translate that into

a picture

it seems to have

that noise and speed

he was like

there's a there's a face looking this

way

another face is looking up that way

that's pretty good would you like to

take a look and see what it's like

amazing isn't it holy mack without

radius

andre before you tell me anything about

the

score let me tell you something that i

did feel something

sort of profound well profound

when touching the pictures touching the

cards I felt something I don't know how

i did but the sensation

well john I can tell you it wasn't an uh

delusion on your part because

your card scores were 12 hits out of 50

which are significant for esp

you've got three out of 16 of the page

numbers on

the book and of course

most intriguing of all was you work with

the pictures you got

six adequate descriptions out of eight

pictures

you know andre

i think I understand a little

why for so many centuries they have

called this mushroom

sacred

now our mushroom hunters are reassembled

here in our studio

dr brown was our search worth it

yes I think so the chemicals in the

mushrooms I think

will offer us another tool by which we

can explore

the mechanisms and the capabilities of

the mind of man

and that's both sensory and extra

sensory what about you professor smith

well john the more I experience of life

in its ordinary and extraordinary uh

aspects the more I feel like a wide-eyed

child reaching for

knowledge and life as for the mushroom

uh it took me out into worlds I didn't

believe

existed far beyond

ordinary perception and yet

even today they're as real

and as important to my everyday life as

anything i've experienced

dr poharish during our stay in hokila

i witnessed quite a number of cases of

extrasensory perception by the brujos

some of which we could not film as you

know john

these in addition to the ones we did

film and the work which we have done

since our return

convinces me that the mushroom contains

a chemical

which is most promising for the further

investigation

of extrasensory perception

when this program began the question was

were the claims for the mushroom true or

false

or for those of us who made the journey

the answer is true

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