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Love Magic & Holy Death: A Conversation with Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut

David Metcalfe
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With Her many devotees among society's dispossessed, Santa Muerte, Saint or Holy Death, has drawn the ire of orthodoxies both religious and legal. Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut's new book is one of the first academic studies in English of this complex and controversial figure. He was kind enough to provide some insight into this fast growing devotional tradition. (more)

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Closing the Cycle

Reality Sandwich
rainbowbridgere.jpegCome to Palenque, Mexico to usher in what Jose Arguelles called the closing of the cycle, from Dec. 19 - 21, with a ceremony hosted by Mayan elders.  (more)
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The Skeleton Festival

Reality Sandwich
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Experience Mexico's Day of the Dead at the annual arts & culture festival La Calaca in central Mexico, November 1-4.  (more)

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The Fourth Principle: Comunalidad

Jaime Martínez
oaxacathumb.jpgIn Oaxaca, comunalidad is the sustaining principle behind an ancestral, yet still new and unique civilizing process -- one that holds back the decrepit individualization of knowledge, power, and culture. (more)
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Zapatista

Jose Saramago
zapatathumb.jpgDuring a high point in its campaign against the Zapatistas, the Mexican government circulated a press release claiming that Subcomandate Marcos was Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente. As part of the campaign, then Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said "I'll meet with Rafael Gullien any time, anywhere." A few days later Subcomandante Marcos responded to Zedillo's taunt by saying, "Excellent. Then the three of us can all meet together."  (more)
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Shamans and Charlatans: Assessing Castaneda's Legacy

ST Frequency
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When first published in 1968, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan was hailed as a groundbreaking ethnographic account of Native American shamanism. With fame came scrutiny, however, and a debate clouded Castaneda's legacy. But there's no doubt that both Castaneda and Don Juan shaped the Western world's understanding of entheogens and Native American culture. (more)

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Torture & Terror on Turtle Island

Kevin Dann
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[Daemonic Dispatches] • In the Republican presidential primary debate in South Carolina, only two of the ten candidates repudiated torture. Frontrunner Rudy Giuliani said interrogators should "use every method they can think of" to get information. The audience applauded wildly, in a chilling gesture that seemed to suggest that many contemporary Americans are happy to have torture performed in their name.Torture has a long history on this Turtle Island continent. Rudolf Steiner spoke of a set of black magical mystery practices in ancient Mexico dating to the first century AD. (more)

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