Georg Johannes Schäfer (March 25, 1926 – January 11, 1991) also known by the pseudonym Oma Ziegenfuss, was a German painter, poet, and author who lived in Guatemala and the United States.
[1] When the Allied Forces liberated Berlin, Schäfer had worked 18 months hard labor in Grabow, Mecklenburg, Germany.
After the war, Schäfer entered the Theological College at Fulda Hessen, but decided against a career in the Catholic Church.
While under the influence of synthetic mescaline, Schäfer experienced the same vision that he had as a child as a reaction to severe burns on his abdomen.
Their correspondence led to an invitation in 1953 for Schäfer to work on experiments with mescaline and consciousness in dreams at the University Clinic of Psychiatry and Neurology in Innsbruck, Austria.
[citation needed] Through the research and publication of these articles, Schäfer began correspondence with Nyanaponika Mahathera in Sri Lanka and Lama Anagarika Govinda, a Mayahana Buddhist monk, which continued for the next thirty years.
[citation needed] Schäfer and his second wife, who he called Mani, travelled to Sri Lanka and later to Guatemala where they settled amongst the Mayans.
As a reporter for Die Zeit, he met Imgard Carmen Heinemann (also known as Nan Cuz), a photographer of German and Mayan descent.