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1document.write('<table width=100% cellspacing=1 cellpadding=3 border=0><tr><td align=\'Left\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=126&z=4\'><b>A Brief History of the Native American Church<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Jay Fikes from One Nation Under God (c)1996 by Huston Smith<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Today the Native American Church of North America has eighty chapters and members belonging to some seventy Native American Nations. In the continental United States, every state west of the Mississippi has at least one chapter.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=126&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=127&z=4\'><b>Barquinha<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>&#169; Nicholas Saunders and Anja Dashwood 1996 <\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Barquinha, a split off the Santo Daime and the smallest of the three established Brazilian churches who use \'huasca\', as its called in Brazil. As with the others, the religion incorporates beliefs from Spiritism, Christianity and the native jungle tribes.<br><\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=127&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=263&z=4\'><b>Chile rediscovers native Mapuche remedies<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>March 25, 2007<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Reuters<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Chileans are rediscovering ancient herbal remedies of the Mapuche indigenous tribe.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=263&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=254&z=4\'><b>Fasting Fakir Flummoxes Physicians<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>25 NOVEMBER 2003<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>By Rajeev Khanna<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Prahlad Jani, a holy man, or fakir, who is over 70 years old, has just spent 10 days under constant observation in Sterling Hospital, and during that time, he did not consume anything and &quot;neither did he pass urine or stool&quot;, according to the hospital\'s deputy superintendent, Dr Dinesh Desai.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=254&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=124&z=4\'><b>Gnostisismo Revolutionario de la Concienca de Krishna<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Council For Spiritual Practice<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Like the Santo Daime in Mapia, Brazil, Gnostisismo Revolutionario de la Concienca de Krishna is an example of a spiritual community based around the use of a psychoactive sacrament as an inspiration and teacher.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=124&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=131&z=4\'><b>Huichol Indians of Mexico<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Charmayne McGee<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Huichol Indians of Mexico call themselves &quot;the healers.&quot; Isolated high in the Sierra Madre mountains of northwestern Mexico, these indigenous people have preserved the purest preColombian culture in our hemisphere.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=131&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr>

1<td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=295&z=4\'><b>LSD Helped Forge Alex Grey\'s Spiritual, Artistic and Love Lives<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>March 24, 2008<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>San Francisco Gate <\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Interview with artist Alex Grey explores his use of psychotropic drugs and their influence on his art, his spirituality, and his life.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=295&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=125&z=4\'><b>Maria Sabina - Curandera, Shaman - (1896-1985)<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Maria Sabina, Mazatec healer, curandera, and Shaman. A native of Huautla de Jimenez, in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, passed away in 1985 at the age of 91. <\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=125&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=276&z=4\'><b>Narcotics Control Board Destroying Coca Cultures<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>05 MARCH 2008<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>In a culturally insensitive and irrational move, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has called for the governments of Bolivia and Peru to abolish all uses of the coca leaf, including coca leaf chewing.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=276&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=139&z=4\'><b>Nature in the Rastafarian Consciousness <\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Erin David<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Living in harmony with the environment and the laws of Nature is one of the central ideas of Rastafarianism. To live in accordance with the Earth is to live in accordance with Jah; it is incorporated into the morality that is Rastafarian consciousness.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=139&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=109&z=4\'><b>Shamanism and Peyote Use Among the Apaches<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, and Harry W. Basehart <\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>In a volume devoted to the study of shamanism and hallucinogenic drugs it is important to include data concerning a group whose experiences with the hallucinogenic peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii) in shamanistic rituals resulted in serious conflict and, ultimately, proscription of the ceremonial use of the drug.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=109&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=143&z=4\'><b>Shamanism in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Article on Tibetean Shamanism of the Bon Tradition.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=143&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr>

1<td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=123&z=4\'><b>Temple of the True Inner Light<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>&#169; Peter Gorman.<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Temple of the True Inner Light was formed in 1980 by Alan Birnbaum as an offshoot of the New York City branch of the Native American Church. The Temple uses Di-Propyl Tryptamine (DPT) as its sacrament which Temple followers regard as the actual manifestation of God, rather than a means to access God.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=123&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=98&z=4\'><b>The Bwiti Religion and Tabernanthe iboga<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Giorgio Samorini<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The use of vegetable hallucinogens by humans for religious purposes is very ancient, probably even older than its use for healing, magic or teaching purposes. The profound alterations in one\'s state of consciousness brought about by the use of a hallucinogen has served as a founding axis for religious systems, and in the development of established religions throughout the history of humanity.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=98&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=154&z=4\'><b>The Matses Indians -  Making Magic<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Peter Gorman<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Matses are a small, seminomadic, hunting-gathering tribe who live in the remote jungle along the Rio Yavari, on the border of Peru and Brazil. <\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=154&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=118&z=4\'><b>The Mazatec Indians - The Mushrooms Speak<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Henry Munn<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Mazatec Indians, who have a long tradition of using the mushrooms, inhabit a range of mountains called the Sierra Mazateca in the northeastern corner of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Properly speaking they are Huautecans; but since the language they speak has been called Mazatec and they have been referred to in the previous anthropological literature as Mazatecs, I have retained that name.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=118&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=16&z=4\'><b>The Santo Daime Religion<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Steven Mizrach<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>In this paper, the reader will be introduced to the sect of Santo Daime, a Brazilian religion which combines Christianity with the indigenous practice of using ayahuasca, a native entheogenic plant.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=16&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=140&z=4\'><b>The Taino World<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>- synthesized from various sources<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Ta&#237;no culture was the most highly developed in the Caribbean when Columbus reached Hispaniola in 1492. Islands throughout the Greater Antilles were dotted with Ta&#237;no communities nestled in valleys and along the rivers and coastlines, some of which were inhabited by thousands of people.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=140&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr>

1<td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=160&z=4\'><b>The Yanomami<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Northern Amazonia<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Yanomami comprise a society of hunter-agriculturists of the tropical rainforest of Northern Amazonia, whose contact with non-indigenous society over the most part of their territory has been relatively recent.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=160&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=14&z=4\'><b>Tukanoans<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>South America - Comisaria del Vaup&#233;s<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>Ayahuasca<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>The Tukanoans are one of the most known cultures that utilize ayahuasca as their sacrament.  They are one of about 70 tribes who share this practice.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=14&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=119&z=4\'><b>Use of Psychoactive Plants Among the Hupda-Maku<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>by Pedro<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>This paper is the fruit of a twenty day stay in four different villages of the Hupda population, known as the Maku, located in the region between the Japu and Uaup&#233;s rivers in the northwest Amazon.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=119&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\'LEFT\' width=100% valign=top ><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=134&z=4\'><b>Who are the Tarahumara?<\/b><\/a><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'><i>The Califormia Native Newsletter<\/i><\/font><br><font face=\'Verdana\' size=\'1\' color=\'#000000\'>Among the peoples of North America, the Tarahumara are considered to be the most primitive, the least touched by modern civilization. They are also the most unmixed of any of the Indian tribes of Mexico.<\/font><a href=\'http:\/\/www.entheology.org\/edoto\/anmviewer.asp?a=134&z=4\'><\/a><\/font><\/td><\/tr><\/table>');