Botanical Jewelry

Botanical Jewelry
-By W. P. Armstrong 1. Introduction Humans have been decorating their bodies with the beauty of natural objects for thousands of years. Primitive man wore necklaces made from the bones, claws and teeth of slain animals. Today most people think of natural jewelry as...

Temple of the True Inner Light

Temple of the True Inner Light
-By Peter Gorman 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...

Barquinha

Barquinha
-By Nicholas Saunders and Anja Dashwood Nicholas The last ayahuasca ritual we attended in Brazil was the 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...