▶ "One Step Beyond": The Sacred Mushroom. (Best 5 Episode)

[@rastairie7764]

This is the best episode ever. I love it when he said, "Oddly enough the first sound we hear is laughter." 😆 yeah, thats because you're all trippin' on shrooms 🍄

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Our man Newland is a perfect protagonist for this episode . . .

[@JustFunandGames]

Or, it could be just because he is such a fungi (fun guy) 😂

[@brentjames9388]

When I heard that I was like… No shit Sherlock.

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

If you ask mushrooms a question, they will answer

[@deborahbrookshier7712]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MARKETMAN6789]

Alcohol used to have the same effect on me ,I could see my wife shouting at me when I came home from the pub ,and I was right every single time i took the test ,the more I drank the more the clarity of her face appeared Thank you for this episode I used to watch and enjoy this series many years ago when it was first aired in Britain thank you

[@jongreydanus7609]

"The Sacred Mushroom," deals with the discovery of mind-altering drugs. Newland traveled to Mexico where he met with a local shaman who was an initiate in ritual use of magic mushrooms. The then-unknown mushrooms were purportedly able to increase the user's psychic powers. Newland ingested several mushrooms and allowed his reactions to be filmed for broadcast. This was the only episode of the entire series to have a relatively reality-based "documentary" tone, rather than the scripted docudramas that comprised all other episodes. Although the subject matter (the enhancement of psychic powers) accorded with the rest of the series, this episode was somewhat controversial and was omitted from the syndication; it has been seen only rarely since its original broadcast.

[@patsulek1570]

Good

[@peterbamforth6453]

Very interesting comment i read castanada in my youth.....

[@jenniehughes6927]

Interesting indeed.

[@MrBenmanning]

as a lifelong twilight zone fan ect i feel really astonished that i have never seen this incredible episode. its quite one of the most extraordinary pieces of tv ever!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Ben Manning: It's good in its own right. But for 1961 . . . it's extraordinary.

[@matthewb9621]

It has nothing to do with the TV series The Twilight Zone. But it is in the Twilight Zone, for sure I am not sure how much this was an episode as a adjunct to the show itself. It is definitely a curiosity. A good one at that. Well done all involved - although long since entered the Quiet Zone.

[@pyrotheanomalous9708]

It was banned from the regular aired broadcasted episodes a few years after its release. I'm not even sure if regular networks such as the Sci-Fi channel in the 90's ever lifted the ban. I also grew up on Rod Sterling's Twilight Zone and was first introduced to One STEP Beyond from my Uncle with the complete series on dvd.

[@rosem4256]

Same here 😉

[@SassaFrass28]

@@rosem4256WE WERE NOT BORN YET. I had no idea this series & some others existed before Twilight zone.

[@butterflyi1]

Thanks for this episode....John Newland took a step alright and tripped! ha ha

[@dianneD27]

What a strange but very interesting episode this one was . Way ahead of the times really .

[@annamariepolniaczek3807]

They be doing shrooms dude.

[@scottmelby1678]

Good eats

[@willfade7994]

It's a trip watching this knowing John actually ate those mushrooms! He spoke of it in the interview posted at the top of this channel. I've always been interested in the subject, though I've never tried them. This episode feels more like a documentary, but I'm enjoying it. 👏🏻📽📺👏🏻

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

willfade 79: Psilocybin (in mushrooms) is among the best received of psychedelics . . .

[@ann755]

Remember Edgar Cayce? My mom had all of his books. Psychic and believer of ESP. He was huge back in the 1950s/1960s I think.

[@dougd2000]

You can find a lot of vids about him and his ideas here on YT. Great stuff.

[@debbieedwards420]

He was

[@01107345]

I don't think he was a believer of ESP. I don't think Cayce believed any of his own crap - he was just a charlatan and a liar. For example, he predicted that in 1958, the United States would rediscover a death ray that had been used on Atlantis. He also said that LA, San Francisco and New York would be destroyed between 1958 and 1998. My history's a little rusty but I'm fairly sure none of that happened, although someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

[@jerryjohnson575]

yes my mother loved those books

[@vernonsanders371]

1920 an 30s

[@watchmanschannelofdespair]

To quote Mr. Spock, "Fascinating," this was, a very interesting, out of the norm episode, I'd never watched before. Thank you very much for the upload, good sir.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@WATCHMAN: Good that you found it . . .

[@elainefarley1895]

Same here Watchman.

[@susanh695]

Thanks for a spiritual journey glad it was filmed.

[@crankychris2]

It was pulled from syndication after sponsor objections.

[@patriciahayes2664]

John Newland really went the distance for this one! The opening of this episode was filmed at Mitla, a famous archeological site in the Central Valleys Region in the state Oaxaca, Mexico. It was the most important sacred burial site to the Zapotec people. Barbara Brown (1921-1999) was a research psychologist at UCLA at the time this episode was filmed; she was the founder of biofeedback. David Kaonohiokala "Big Daddy" Bray (1889-1968) was indeed a practicing kahuna in the mid-20th century. I tried looking up Jeffrey Smith, but couldn't find him. Andrija Puharich (1918-1995) was, among other things, a medical and parapsychological researcher who brought Uri Geller and Peter Hurkos (1911-1988) to the U.S. for scientific investigation. Puharich's book was called "The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity".

[@amyp112]

John Newland is like, “Why are you talking like a robot, Doctor?”

[@DennisRay99]

Truth. 🤣😂🤣😂

[@schoolhomevrtechnologyassi6286]

And I thought some Scientists were dry in documentaries today!

[@kathyj6070]

Amy P• I know right?😂

[@minorshan]

Because I... am... an alien, John.

[@landryprichard6778]

I've been into this culture since around 1994. Can't believe I've never seen this. The 50s and very early 60s was a forgotten time when we kept trying to apply scientific materialism to something that reaches beyond that. ESP, etc. (I will say that is his post tests were real, that gives me chills). But great to see the early American pioneers at work bringing culture into our world.

[@GiftSparks]

Here I am just being awestruck by how great John Newland looks in casual clothes.

[@truthiseverything9511]

"Like what effects?" "You'll find out"

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Sky Watcher: Don't you just love it (?)

[@Mark_1956]

Wow! John Newland doing Shrooms

[@meghan3713]

😅

[@PatLikesThese]

A most fascinating journey. I didn't know quite what to expect from this episode. Certainly gives a person with an open mind much to think about. Truth is stranger than fiction, as many of the episodes of "One Step Beyond" do attest.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

And this was still (for practical purposes) back in the 1950s. LSD, Timothy Leary, and etc are years away . . .

[@SI-ln6tc]

This is real. Its really about R. Wasson. He was the researcher who first discover magic mushroom and reported about it. He is legendary.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@S I: Yes, definitely worth knowing about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Gordon_Wasson

[@SI-ln6tc]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Also the shaman was a woman name Maria Sabina.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@@SI-ln6tc en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Sabina

[@erynlasgalen1949]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 That answers my question about what chemical was in the mushrooms.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@@erynlasgalen1949 Yes, psilocybin . . .

[@multicaruana]

Yes, chilling and groundbreaking. And way ahead of its time on many levels. Thanks for making this available!

[@multicaruana]

Thank you.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Note: this was, for all practical purposes, still the 1950s (just four days after President Eisenhower left office) . . .

[@JohnLloydScharf]

Possibly in response to concern over drug abuse, this episode was excluded from most syndication runs. A notable exception was Kaiser Broadcasting, which ran the episode in several large media markets during the 1970's.

[@JohnLloydScharf]

www.imdb.com/title/tt0507842/?ref_=ttep_ep18

[@Jeffreypearson252]

The mushroom hunters, now that's a show i'd like to see.

[@allanerickson5053]

check out Hamilton's Pharmacopeia - on Vice TV

[@bbpill]

Some trivia John Newland was born in Cincinnati. In the late 60s there was a popular local psych band in Cincinnati named you guessed it Sacred Mushroom.

[@petunia210]

John was cute after eating the mushrooms. LOL

[@debbieedwards420]

Funny

[@renesagahon4477]

I wonder if john felt that way about the guy who was testing him. With the mushrooms or maybe the other way around

[@kevingrabkowski5505]

This was an amazing episode. How mankind has actually gone backwards is beyond belief but it is true that people were more open minded to explore the inner workings and abilities of the 6 sense ESP.

[@WorgenGrrl]

I'm a believer in what I call Non-Tech Trans-humanism. I know the science that we use only 10% of our brains is out of date, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to explore the brain's potential. The movie "Lucy" (A mediocre Sci-fi movie) is the closest to showing what I have in mind.

[@schoolhomevrtechnologyassi6286]

@@WorgenGrrl Humans use more like 4-6% of Brain ability.

[@schoolhomevrtechnologyassi6286]

@@WorgenGrrl When one has the power to create and destroy worlds, is mere existence 10% usage?

[@marcdulman8586]

@@jamesmiller4184 Loved your comments! I was about the same age as you in the 50s and enjoyed all those shows that you mentioned. They were quite memorable! ❤️

[@kenshultz2664]

Organized religion keeps its hold on the proliferation of these substances

[@karlamalcolm9249]

He was adventurous!! Really cool to watch his experience.

[@districtline]

Under the controlled conditions of this experiment, I would gladly volunteer to try it. I never thought I would ever say that but as you get older there's a lot less to fear.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Julie Huggins: Good for you (!) Better late than never . . . for us all.

[@adamparker2754]

I do recommend everybody take a journey on atleast once psychedelics in Their lifetime

[@sx20Ramar]

I d/led a 50 episode bunch of episodes of this great show I remembered from my early childhood. I couldn't believe this episode wasn't among them. The show was one of my favorites back then, The theme from this show is still one of the most haunting themes I've ever heard.Thanks to KZbin for filling in that missing one. Now we know that that "mystery" chemical in them was psilocybin.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Altair Ramar: Glad you found this channel. Here are other rare episodes, not usually available commercially: kzbin.info/aero/PLR9KUynF_6FowuU31zsh9l-E6z5-l3B4h

[@mortalclown3812]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Thank you! Just discovered this channel today. Wonderful program. Props.

[@alejandrajuarez1768]

Wow there are things that I don't know about my contry and this episode is really interesting!!

[@doncampbell1802]

Pretty amazing, even for an amazing series like this! Truly groundbreaking!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

I wonder sometimes how they got away with broadcasting this one . . .

[@mortalclown3812]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Wikipedia says it was withheld from airing at one point.

[@susanh695]

@@mortalclown3812 Glad it was made :)

[@termsofusepolice]

I like to imagine Terence McKenna seeing this episode as a boy and it sparking his career journey. :-)

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@termsofusepolice: (LOL) I'm tempted to look up McKenna's birth date to see how likely that might have been . . . but that might justify people who think I take comments here too literally. So yeah, it's a fun thing to imagine . . . full stop.

[@termsofusepolice]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 TM would have been in his early teens when this episode originally aired. FWIW.

[@SI-ln6tc]

Its about R. Wasson. He was was the first scientist who discover magic mushrooms. He us legendary. Maria Sabina was the shaman.m

[@meganturner8438]

@@SI-ln6tc Maria Sabina was her name!! Ty! Couldn’t remember her name

[@amyp112]

I’m starting to see why women have commented abt John Newland being handsome.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Amy P: Yes, Newland groupies are enchanted with this channel . . .

[@-oiiio-3993]

17:08 - "Like what.. like what effects? " 'Ahh, you'll find out."

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Brian Rothhammer: It's not only good in its own right . . . but extra entertaining to those who are familiar with Newland and his typically omniscient role in the OSB episodes.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Indeed.

[@zegotashalom3881]

Boy I can remember during the seventies we had some fantastic sacred mushrooms, and we could even smoke-em. Peace

[@djyahtzee7260]

(can't resist) Well, I've eaten some 'shrooms that made me see some wild things. Seriously, I've tested myself by trying to determine, by touch alone, the color of every card in a poker deck. I was impressed by how well I did. I have never again worked up the patience to try again, probably because I might find that the first time was only blind luck (no pun intended).

[@allanerickson5053]

thank you sooo much for posting this episode!

[@AnthonyGenualdi]

I've always wanted to see this one. Thanks.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Glad you found it . . .

[@darinkaguevaracue]

Best tv program one that pushed beyond the limits of tv itself, way before reality, and that is only one reason that makes it the best

[@pyrodiscoflash6115]

Edward Casey is the Sleeping Psychic, John Newland is the Happy Researcher Tripping And Slipping the Light Fantastic for Knowledge, Absolutely Groundbreaking TV History

[@dk60ish]

Never saw this episode before! Even for being greatly unknown of at the time, it's still quite the shock to see this keeping in mind, that it was shown to living rooms all over the country!

[@harrowgateguy]

They are not just for tripping any more. That sense of well being they refer to can treat conditions of the mind such as PTSD. Some studies have shown micro-dosing mushrooms are significantly more affective in treating PTSD than any of the drugs currently being used.

[@lamplighter4106]

They do, they have the power to rewire the brain. Amazing drug that might be an alien.

[@mandst5466]

What a refreshingly honest presentation ! Sadly, how things have changed 😕 Undoubtedly this science has been perverted to achieve mind control and used to realise some of the worst events we have seen over the last 60 years.

[@mallom6226]

WOW this is was so ahead of its time!!!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Definitely . . .

[@cbass2755]

Holy cow…this episode is fantastic! I’ve never seen this one before….3/2023

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

We're preparing a psychotropics video for BOSB . . .

[@cinnie1818]

Excellent episode 👏

[@-Diana469]

At the end all those doctors or scientists looked like they were still taking those mushrooms! Look at their eyes!😁😄😃

[@BlindArthurBlake]

And a few years later, the Allman Brothers Band was founded

[@doloresdelgreco8500]

He is the epitome of handsome 😮😅❤

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

One of the things I've most come to appreciate from moderating this channel is how many women just LOVE John Newland. Call me naive about women, but I hadn't expected that . . .

[@alvinprettyman1802]

thanks for sharing

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Glad you found it worthwhile . . .

[@furyvideo1]

love this show started watching it in 1971, one of my favorite episodes is called The devil's laughter, the burning girl, earthquake,the echo,,,,the haunted U-boat, the aerialist, the darkroom,,, the clown,,,, the hand,,the return of Mitchell campion,,,,, the justice tree,, also 50 years later I finally got to see the most controversial episode The sacred mushroom, I could not believe john Newland was way ahead of his time back in 1960 before the drug MUSHROOMs became popular in pop culture the 60s, you had hippie culture and the underground populace, Haight Asbury,,,, the drug culture of the 60s,,,,,,,I mean he actually ate a few of them on camera to see what it felt like,,,, the result was a feeling of extra sensory perception,, I also like when they drop in the eerie music when the realization of an unexplained happening or event takes place

[@brianwilling9403]

The sacred mushroom brought me here...

[@spidermoth1170]

Best ever One Step Beyond Thanks heaps for having this on KZbin 👍🏻🥂☕🍰 Appreciate being able to watch it 🌹🌹🌹

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Glad you found it . . .

[@1locust1]

I wish my delicious bowl of cream of mushroom soup could enhance my existence.

[@michaelbedford8017]

It will if it's 'Campbells'.

[@mellisande638]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@floobious80866]

So glad I've just discovered this one ☝taking the world 🌎!🏁

[@michellel564]

"you'll find out" 😂😂 famous last words of your bestie

[@bazzer124]

Trippin' on 'shrooms! Cheers....

[@patrixspringer2753]

I thought this episode was pulled from syndication, yet I see this was transmitted on the old UHF Seattle station KTZZ 22...must have been broadcast in the late 80's or early 90's...I don't recall them showing One Step...but I was younger too! Thanks for sharing!!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Glad you found it . . .

[@justine_holloway]

Feels a bit staged and kind of hokey but still a very interesting episode, exploring a fascinating topic. That's the great thing about this show - its sense of imaginative curiosity.

[@MsBackstager]

Amazing! I once went to a famous psychic center in VA and did the card experiment. W/o any kind of stimulus I scored 28 out of 40.

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Re-Viewing this 5 years later and still fascinating. Done with more decency than these days I would say .

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

I'm reading a history of "remote viewing" titled "Phenomena" by Annie Jacobsen . . . and this Mexico expedition is described in that context. Pretty interesting.

[@cm9439]

How the hell did they get this episodes aired in the fifties? I wonder if Leary saw this.... John Newland let his suits have a rest for this one. It feels stagey, but is still interesting and fun to watch.

[@minorshan]

It wasn't even named yet. Can't scaremonger until people start having fun with it. LSD was legal until sometime in the 60s. XTC was legal until the late 80s.

[@thomasmagee4565]

LSD was declared an illegal substance in the U.S. on October 6,1966.

[@brucelytle1144]

​@@thomasmagee4565and the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in '69 or 69, which led to the Drug Control Act of 1970 that we live with today.

[@wvcricker5683]

Ok, I’m gonna say this... Clairvoyance (I guess that’s what I’m about to explain) runs on my mother’s side of the family... it took (and still takes) the forms of dreams with my great grandmother, my grandmother, my mom and my aunt... I, however, have like “flashes” of future events, right down to to the tiniest detail.. It’s like when you snap a picture with a camera and the flash goes off, and you have a detailed, vivid picture. Anyway, I’m sure there are some who will call bullshit to this, but I could care less. Trust me, I could not make this stuff up even if I wanted to... It’s not necessarily the nicest gift to have, as I had a “flash” of an event that I hoped beyond hope it wouldn’t come true, but one month later it did, leaving my family devastated. 😢Not all flashes come true, but MOST do... Bottom line, ain’t no way I’d try mushrooms.. I have NO DESIRE to enhance what I already have... Just thought I’d share that...

[@jimkilbane5180]

Maryanne WestVA: Do any male members of your family have this ability or is it just females? I am wondering because I thought ESP appeared in both sexes.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Jim Kilbane: ESP does appear in both Men and Women . . . but more so in Women than in Men. ESP is more of a right-brain and emotional capacity (more common in Women) than a left-brain and intellectual one (more common in Men) . . .

[@wvcricker5683]

Jim Kilbane Not that I know of, but, then again, the males in my family wouldn’t talk about it if they did.. they are all very stoic..

[@watchmanschannelofdespair]

Oh, I believe you all right, there's so much beyond our physical realm of existence out there we just do not understand, know, or wish to believe, no matter what some may think.

[@CarschA]

Same here. I don't get flashes, but i get feelings and impressions. But this is just one of the many other such things i experience. For example, i've twice experienced being in two places simultaneously......i was wide awake walking to school in both occasions.

[@tradewins]

The UCLA doctor who was studying neurochemistry was there at the same time that Carlos Castaneda was doing his anthropology studies and being initiated into Don Juan's path in Mexico. I wonder if they discussed these things between them.

[@artistphilb]

Back before it was known that mushrooms of the Psilocybe family are common throughout the globe, and now illegal in many places...

[@jerryleroy9187]

Here in Canada you can have them but if they are dried out, you may get charged. That's how it used to be anyway years back.

[@artistphilb]

@@jerryleroy9187 it used to be the same in the UK, not now though... class A drugs along with heroin and cocaine

[@StefanVanHeester]

I wish they had done an episode on the kahuna from Hawai. They don’t need mushrooms to « see ». This episode reminded me of Carlos Castaneda, Don Juan and the bruja. Thanks for uploading! ✨🖖🏻

[@jimiplayscobo5877]

I was a mushroom hunter. They grow all over Vancouver and the surrounding areas. They grow all over in the front of the Police station, Airport ....Etc. When dried you can eat 10 to 15 for a buzz. I called them sillies cause they made you happy and silly. When you take 60 to 100 then things change and they are not silly anymore. Then they become more like acid. They say if you take 100 shrooms and you see the door of Death:) Peace

[@jackdavidsen6074]

This is a pretty accurate description.

[@TheTalksoup]

I am shocked. i have been a OSB collector for years and watched it as a child. I own the series in several formats and never saw this. i take it it's psilocybin

[@beaugeste2899]

One-Step-Beyond -But It has other applications in medicine and psychiatry.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

"Substances particularly favourable to the experience of telepathy were found to be cannabis, MDMA and DXM . . . no one substance was particularly generative of precognitive experiences . . . possible candidates for clairvoyance were cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin . . ." psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/psychedelics-and-psi

[@robertcronin6603]

Fascinating 🔥

[@theskintexpat-themightygreegor]

John Newland, tripping on 'shrooms! Somehow I missed this episode in One Step Beyond reruns when I was a kid in the 70s, hahaha.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

Appparently, it wasn't broadcast often in syndication. We're lucky we have this copy at all . . .

[@phillaird976]

This was always my favorite episode.

[@lisaakinlabi]

All I remember about taking loads of these in the 70's was that I just wanted to party all night 🤣

[@colleenhenry-bs6ij]

Never saw this one before, My Sisters and I used to watch This Series growing up!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

We think that it was intentionally dropped when the series went into syndication in the early 1960s . . . for being too controversial.

[@jarednima]

I visit this place every year. Not just for the mushrooms but for the food. Mazatecs make some really great food, it's very different from the rest of Mexico. They have something called Mixotes and Tamales de Tezmole umm 🤤delicious!

[@okuradani]

I loved the enthusiasm of those nerds. Assuming they didn't let their pilots get (too) stoned.

[@marywalker2896]

This show was on at a time I was only eight years old and I was so protected was never allowed to watch it so I am binge watching all of these episodes now .a great show..love it..

[@VIRGONOMICS]

Almost like a show you might see nowadays. Pretty awesome,thanks.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

The 1950s were not as bland and conformist as is conventionally portrayed (sex, drugs, and rock and roll, for example). Especially when you consider that people's sensibilities were less jaded . . .

[@sarahmariah100]

Seriously?! Meanwhile I, poor bastard, was an impressionable little kid right in time for the era of Just Say No. I missed everything good

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Sarah Stewart: Now, now . . . it's never too late to admit your shortcomings, reform, and turn your life around.

[@mortalclown3812]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Amen! (I'm old.) ☺️🙌

[@tombombadil9529]

16:36 I love his reaction when he realizes how awful they taste 😄

[@crankychris2]

The tea wasn't much better!

[@thomasmagee4565]

Those mushrooms taste nowhere near as bad as peyote!You haven't been anywhere if you have not had peyote!

[@ZeranZeran]

what do they taste like? I don't even like the mushrooms people put in soup!

[@TheCalico72]

@@ZeranZeran I ate mushrooms once when I was a kid and didn't know any better. Never again. Nasty slug-like things. Blech 🤮 For me to participate in a trial, the shrooms would have to be pulverized and baked in brownies or zucchini bread.

[@rosem4256]

👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DeathCab4Cutie]

I ordered some... They will be here in a couple of weeks

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

This is the best time of year to grow them . . .

[@frankyjayhay]

Interesting how the Professor near the end said the experience was absolutely real, perhaps at least some of what we call hallucinations are more real than we think. The whole topic is about the nature of reality itself and the role of the mind, certainly a thought provoking video. Some say certain chemicals open ESP in the mind in a fast and dangerous way that should be opened gradually through meditation and self mastery. Lacking the necessary discipline I'll leave the "experimental part" to the experts.

[@dougd2000]

I'm a huge fan of paranormal shows from the '50s on. I was astonished to see this episode. OSB truly was one of the most groundbreaking shows in TV history. This episode shows it was not afraid to break from its format to explore new realms and that the paranormal really was its focus, whereas the TZ used the paranormal more as a plot device in dramas that explored the human condition (with exceptions of course).

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@dougd2000: I guess I understand how people think of T-Zone and OSB together . . . but, as I've said repeatedly in other comments, they're actually very different. In particular, T-Zone stories are mostly morality tales -- they're trying to make a point. I keep thinking of making a video to compare and contrast the two in detail . . .

[@dougd2000]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 You should do that, it would be quite intriguing!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@@dougd2000 : Here's a preliminary video that I've already done: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4ObdIWEnbyDjpo

[@dougd2000]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 Nice. I actually watched TZ (syndicated) all the time as a kid in the 70s and on but I never saw OSB until a few years ago. Either saw it first on YT or on a digital broadcast channel, I can't remember, but I've been watching here for some time. I was really surprised to learn that OSB predated TZ as I had thought TZ was so original and groundbreaking. Even wrote a column about TZ in my college newspaper and how I thought it was the best TV show ever. But now, not so sure. I know you eschew comparing the two, but I'd be interested in knowing your thoughts on originality of TZ, in light of fact that OSB predated it.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@@dougd2000 : I just think they are two different shows with virtually no influence on one another. Rod Serling said as much -- here's part of a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn7Pm5Wjnsx2rJo

[@dr.wisdom7917]

The first time Newman wearing a casual clothing rather than a business suit!

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

@Jeffrey Woo No necktie in this vacation episode one, either: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpebfZSoqLNkp68

[@randallulrich]

John *Newland*

[@pattytanur3321]

Love this program. This episode even though I was born before this episode was made , is a first one indeed. Great!

[@tvfan14]

Wow, Thank you for posting this. I heard this episode was banned for many years.

[@Tipi_Dan]

"He knew the secrets of the ancients. Now he wanted to unleash them on humanity." Bwa,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha---haa!

[@julesjohnson247]

Apparently , humanity needs more time to work it out !

[@StacySelah]

Have A NICE TRIP... SEE YA NEXT FALL!

[@c.s.hayden3022]

This is worth investigating in a thoughtful way. I know I have.

[@gobbollino2688]

Magic mushrooms! Also known simply as ‘shrooms’

[@ellietobe]

There was a guy in our town that was stoned out of his mind most of the time. I remember him crashing a party that I was at once and he had a bag full of payote with him. Not a mushroom but definitely a hallucinogenic that comes from a cactus. Many of the tribal people that lived on islands and also in the Americas had shamans. Those shamans would use mushrooms and other “natural” substances to communicate with their “gods.” They claimed to get power from these gods to do certain things. Many of the people were terrified of the shaman. There were some very brutal things that a man had to do in order for become a shaman. One of those things is as to murder the closest relative to the person wanting to become a shaman. According to their lore this would give them the ability to shape change and to curse people among other things. I don’t think that anything that was offered would be worth murdering someone, especially the person that you care most about.

[@billruss6704]

Recommended reading, "Carlo Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan a Yaqui way of knowledge"

[@olengagallardo8551]

The scientists look hooked on to the mushrooms😂😂😂

[@lamplighter4106]

Incredible is the word.

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

And the comments here provide ways to follow up on it . . .

[@timebot000]

Wow, he just chews them up, and then after lying down, and live on camera, so innocent! ....I remember well that first feeling... It would have been fun to get tested as he was..🌠

[@organicmusicspace]

Haha. Now you can buy mushroom grow sets and grow them in your closet. I ate 100 in the jungles of Mexico and I had a short conversation with "God".

[@jerrycarter3179]

They all got high.

[@tazmod7272]

An interesting show. In the Oregon coast near Tillamook people would hunt for the “majestic “ psychedelic mushrooms .

[@donwest1869]

Thanks for the upload; I recall seeing this when I was a kid. It was a trip then, uh, still is....

[@renesagahon4477]

This episode way ahead of it's time. Would be fun to have seen it shot in Color

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

Trippin' 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelcullen5308]

He almost took his eye out with the corner of that wooden stand at 14.50 :)

[@one-step-beyond-1959]

A lesson for us all: going "one step beyond" . . . is not hazard free (!)

[@jackdavidsen6074]

@@one-step-beyond-1959 The Step Beyond is not hazard-free, but for those who have had a deep, life long longing to learn what lies beyond our everyday perception, A Step Beyond presents a risk worth taking.

[@LBG-cf8gu]

used to watch this on free tv. Was a young kid. Don't think i ever saw this episode. This is hard to believe for 1959. always liked osb, kind of a twilight zone vibe to it. they look like psilocybin 'shrooms. Did them, once, and the laughing is exactly how i reacted. this is more a documentary. Great stuff! "Nam era Marine.

[@personanongrata5002]

Haven’t had a good trip in ages ive got some dried shrooms bout two years old not sure if there’s still magic in em but im having them babies tonight 🚧🚀🎪