"The UDV is ..a religion “shrouded in mystery” and derived from a nativist religious movement in Brazil whose core beliefs are a “mixture of Christianity, Freemasonry, Kardecism/Spiritism, and tiny sprinkles of African-based religions "
abqjournal.com/564142/residen…
"It incorporates “lots of stories from other religions changed/tweaked to fit this religion” like “the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, the beheading of John the Baptist,” and they “believe King Solomon invented ayahuasca,”"
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AURORA FOUNDATION CO MR JEFFREY BRONFMAN
- Santa Fe NM
grantmakers.io/profiles/v0/74…
"When the UDV brought its case forward, the U.S. gov't attempted to justify its position of prohibition...The UDV’s argument ultimately succeeded, maintaining that U.S. laws guaranteeing the “free exercise of religion” trumped those prohibitions" - MAPS
maps.org/news/bulletin/…
MAPS is the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Kinda reminds me of something...
The UK equivalent of MAPS ... TRANSFORM DRUG POLICY FOUNDATION (TDPF)
#MassMindControl
"CIA-Funded Research Exploited Black Americans in Search of “Mind-Control” Drug"
chacruna.net/cia_research_e…
“If someone is from the Amazon,” says Evgenia Fotiou, an anthropologist who studies Western ayahuasca usage, “they bring some legitimacy” to an ayahuasca ritual.
daily.jstor.org/the-colonizati…
Evgenia Fotiou is a medical anthropologist with an interest in health and healing in a cross-cultural perspective. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from UW-Madison in 2010
bialabate.net/news/evgenia-f…
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