The theology centers on the belief that peyote brings peace, and heals illnesses if one sincerely believes.
While it is illegal for most, peyote is being reintroduced, and federal law in the year 2005 permits its use by the 25,000 members of the Native American Church, which has chapters in twenty states. The military also has okayed the use of peyote among American Indians in the armed services for their religious ceremonies as a sacrament, not a drug, just as a sacramental wine.
The demise of the buffalo and white expansion onto Indian lands threatened the peoples of the southern plains with the extinctions of their way of life in the 1890s.
They found relief in a religious ceremony involving peyote, a small, spineless cactus, native to Mexico, producing hallucinogenic effects when injested. Mostly, it is eaten, brewed in tea, but can also be smoked.
In ancient Aztec legend, peyote first came to the Indians when a young Indian woman with child was foraging for roots when her labor began. She gave birth in the desert near a low bush. Exhausted, frightened, and unable to care for herself and the infant, she awaited death. She heard a spirit voice tell her to eat the plant that was growing beside her. Next to her, she found a cactus, pulled it up by its roots, and ate the small button. She was revived immediately, and her breasts filled with milk. She showed the button to her people, and they accepted it as a blessing. It found its way the the United States in the late 1800s.
Peyote rituals continue. Its use is to unite an ancient spiritual past that connects the Indians and the plants of their world, including corn and tobacco.
With the Upsurge of the 1998 drug Viagra, the male impotency drug considered legal, and recommended for the market, why not legalize peyote for every woman so she can have a realistic vision of a natural "totem pole," one which is carved from an authentic "woody" and risen in respect and honor for spiritual worshiping. Would the legalization of peyote not give women a soft vision and tight thighs? Would it not revolutionize tea rooms and reintroduce women to old-fashioned ritual?
Peyote --the 'divine catus.' May only true seekers find their way to it. Not recommended as a novelty high. Recommended, however, as a soujourn to one's ineffable soul.
Interesting Peyote facts! Another thing you might find interesting: Peyote cactus buttons uncovered in Shumla Cave in southern Texas have been radiocarbon dated to 5,000 B.C.!
Once again, you teach me some "stuff," Sage. Thank you. Love and peace to you.
Regis
Reviewed by J A
10/26/2005
Great idea, great informations, show me to Ur tea room.
Pour me a mug and tell of Ur insights, guide me through the
ritual and errect the totem pole, for U.
Great read, make them randy.
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
10/26/2005
Haven't heard that version of the origin of peyote. Actually haven't heard of any version. LOL Back in the stone age (stone age get it yuk, yuk!) of the sixties about the only thing I ever heard about it was, quoting now, somewhat, "Hey, man, that's some far out shit, dude!" Paraphrasing, of course. Interesting tale.
The drug called "The Shari" has been used for vision quests over many years. But, when all the rivers start drying up, the tribe must send a young hunter named Tomás on a much more important trip through the Amazon.
The drug called "The Shari" has been used for vision quests over many years. But, when all the rivers start drying up, the tribe must send a young hunter named Tomás on a much more important trip through the Amazon.
The drug called "The Shari" has been used for vision quests over many years. But, when all the rivers start drying up, the tribe must send a young hunter named Tomás on a much more important trip through the Amazon.
