Here we present "Sacred Mushroom" an (in)famous and rarely repeated episode of One Step Beyond which looks at a magic Mexican mushroom that might give extra sensory powers. Hailing from a more innocent age (1961 to be exact) they leap straight in, start stuffing down these mushrooms and doing tests to see if their minds have been expanded beyond the limits of the human capability.
As well as an eye-opening, period piece (which feels very much like faked, documentary slipped into a film just before some terrible supernatural beastie is launched at the screen), the key figure here is Andrija Puharich who was the man who discovered Uri Geller, did CIA-sponsored ESP research at the Stanford Research Institute and is intimately connected with the mystery of The Nine. He has been described as an éminence grise looming largely behind a lot of the wildest claims of the last 50 years. I mention him in passing in Darklore 4 and will be returning to him in the near future.
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