"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 "
"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,”"
"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
“If someone is from the Amazon,” says Evgenia Fotiou, an anthropologist who studies Western ayahuasca usage, “they bring some legitimacy” to an ayahuasca ritual.
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…
The Runwell Hospital in Wickford was founded as a Psychatiatric Hospital by the Minister of Health ... It was bombed by the Air Force in World War II en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runwell_H…
"From 1958 at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Vol. 3 of AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY,
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Thomas A. Ban (series editor)
Development of neuropharmacology was triggered in the 1950s by the serendipitous discovery of the first set of effective psychotropic drugs 🤔 acnp.org/wp-content/upl…
Julius Axelrod : "All radioactivity was in the sympathetic nerves, localized over dense core granules in little vesicles. We suspected these little vesicles were the storage place for noradrenaline. We also studied the distribution of noradrenaline with Hans Weil-Malherbe ..
a German biochemist who did a lot of work on the biochemistry of mental illness. He left Germany during the Nazi regime and he developed methods in England for measuring adrenaline" bioc.cam.ac.uk/about-us/histo…
"Until Abigail married Wexner,she was an attorney at the law firm of Davis,Polk & Wardwell.
Specifically, the office located in London—an 8 minute drive to JPMorgan’s offices in London..where Jes Staley worked in various roles from 1979 to 2013"
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