Lord of the Mushroom Clowns: The Story of Eunice Pike, Huautla de Jiménez, and Early Psychedelic Theology
Missiology: An International Review
Published online on October 21, 2025
Abstract
Missiology, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 321-335, July 2026.
Eunice Victoria Pike (1913-2011) was a missionary and Bible translator who worked among the Mazatec people of Huautla de Jiménez in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the 1950s, she assisted the amateur anthropologist R. Gordon Wasson in his research on the psychedelic...
Eunice Victoria Pike (1913-2011) was a missionary and Bible translator who worked among the Mazatec people of Huautla de Jiménez in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the 1950s, she assisted the amateur anthropologist R. Gordon Wasson in his research on the psychedelic...