Though the ceremony differs among tribes, it is always for the purpose of healing a chosen individual. Everyone circles a fire and sings songs to drumming while consuming peyote. This is a healing ceremony, so during the ritual, everyone is to pray for the present individual who is ill. Most often, this person has been undiagnosed. This is their purpose for the ceremony.
Taking the peyote and participating in the meeting, their illness is supposed to be revealed to them so they may diagnose themselves. Peyote, in this sense, is more therapeutic. Peyote Lophophora williamsii is a small cactus that grows underground — only its top or "button," which is about the size of a baseball is visible.
Peyote is a spineless, slow-growing plant, one that may take years to reach maturity in the deserts of south Texas and northern Mexico. As they grow, the cacti produce range of phenethylamine alkaloids, some of which have a distinctive hallucinogenic effect on humans. Once harvested, the little button-shaped fruits can be eaten, brewed as a tea, or dried and crushed into a powder, which is loaded into capsules.
Users may also smoke the dried version. The primary active ingredient is mescaline, a powerful drug that the U.
Interestingly, the mescaline causes a severe reaction in animals, which deters them from eating it, providing protection for a cactus with no spines. Indigenous people in parts of North and Central America revere the plant as a way to accentuate their spiritual ceremonies.
Native Americans may gather around a fire and share peyote, as a shaman or ceremonial leader chants and sings, guiding participants through the experience, which may last 10 hours or longer. Beyond religious ceremonies, peyote has a long history as medicine in these cultures.
People sometimes use the cacti to help with fever, skin problems, blindness, colds, diabetes and pain. The U. Anti-drug laws mean that it is, by and large, illegal to possess or consume peyote, so if you're caught with this cacti in the U. However, the federal government does create exceptions for the Native American Church, allowing its members to use the plant for religious purposes.
Peyote ingestion was prohibited in when the Controlled Substance Act was passed by Congress, although the Native American Church was exempt from this law. In , Alan Birnbaum, founder of his own Native American Church of New York, challenged the status quo by insisting that the Drug Enforcement Administration DEA "exempt the use of all psychedelic drugs in religious ceremonies of all churches that believe that psychedelic drugs are deities.
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