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A 5 page research paper that, first of all, looks briefly at three religions that incorporate hallucinogens as a sacrament and then discusses the ways in which US law has addressed this use. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates.?? Role of Hallucinogens in Religion Enterprises
Inc. By - May, 2010 properly! Throughout human history, it has been widely believed that
an altered state of consciousness is required in order to fully understand and connect with a higher spiritual plane. Undoubtedly, the most common method for achieving an altered state of
consciousness has been fasting and prayer; however, some religious practice has also incorporated ingesting hallucinogens for this purpose. The following paper, first of all, looks briefly at three religions that
incorporate hallucinogens as a sacrament and then discusses the ways in which US law has addressed this use. Native American Sources vary as to when the use of peyote
became entrenched in Native American religious practices, but it is believed that peyote, "the divine cactus," was used in Kiowa and Comanche ceremonies as early as 1870 (Kracht, 2000, p.
242). Peyote, Lophophra williamsii, is a "small, green, spineless cactus," which is indigenous to the Rio Grande River region near the current Texas-Mexico border (Kracht, 2000, p. 242). Consuming one
of the "buttons" that grow in clusters attached to the taproot produces religious hallucinations. Historians believe that the peyote ritual began among the Mescalero Apache also around 1870, but the
earliest remembered account of the peyote ritual occurred during the summer of 1885 (Kracht, 2000). Rastafarianism Rastafarianism is a new religion that originated roughly seventy years ago and remains
extremely small in its adherents (Edmonds, 2003). One research study found that less than one percent of Jamaicans identify themselves as Rastafarians, yet the typical non-Jamaican harbors the misconception that
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