Georg Schafer

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Georg Schafer, formerly Georg Schaefer a.k.a. Oma Ziegenfuss and Georg Shepherd (born March 25, 1926 in Leinefelde; died January 11, 1990 in Chatham, Massachusetts from heart failure) was a German painter and author.

During World War II he was a prisoner in a German concentration camp. After World War II he was a freelance journalist working for Der Spiegel & Die Welt, and worked with such notables as Carl Jung, Albert Einstein, Albert Hoffman and Lama Anagarika Govinda. He met and married a Guatemalan woman by the name of Nan Cuz (she was working as an assistant photographer at Die Welt magazine) and they moved to Guatemala in 1973 where he further developed himself as an artist.

His book "Im Reiche des Mescal" is an adult fairy tale based on Indian folklore and "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" was translated into English, "In the Kingdom of Mescal" and Spanish, "En el Reino de Mescal". The paintings in the book were by his own hand using his wife's name Nan Cuz. He not only interviewed Carl Jung but was his personal psychiatrist for a period of time. The phrase, "So fast the light so slow the matter follows behind" was written in a letter to his life long friend Albert Einstein. It was this simple phrase that gave birth to the theory of relativity. While working with Dr. Hoffman looking for a way to ovulate women during pregnancy they co-discovered LSD. While working with Lama Govinda in Ceylon Georg was sent to Russia to research their study in levitation telekinesis and telepathy.