"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…
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@UnityNewsNet "Benyamin Naeem Habib was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. His father is a Pakistani Punjabi and his mother is English and was born in Isleworth. He immigrated to Britain in 1979 and attended Rugby School, a private school in Warwickshire."
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"UK justice minister invested in tax scheme contested by HMRC
Lord David Wolfson joined plan that generated £134m in allowances on investment of £79m..
The Cobalt data centre scheme is the subject of active litigation with the tax authorities, who have sought to block the allowances. A tax tribunal in 2019 found the scheme was lawful and last year upheld the tax allowances".. archive.is/s3oJg
Jo Maugham QC, a specialist tax lawyer who now heads the Good Law Project campaign group, said: “You’re in a position where a minister for justice is having his personal tax liability adjudicated upon by the courts that his department administers. That is constitutionally odd"
CharitableBookings launched its online platform with a premium offering after raising £5 million from angel investors, including Lord Stanley Fink, former CEO of Man Group. phocuswire.com/CharitableBook…