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Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...
Speaking before a Science Center crowd of 200 people, Negrin showed several hundred slides and played authentic Huichol ritual music...
...Huichol: Ongoing Transformation of a Shamanic Culture in Mexico--Juan Negrin; Science Center...
Things are otherwise south of the Rio Grande. Psychotropic plants have been used ritually in South America for more than 2,000 years. The visions they induce are socially shared and, it seems, consistent with one another. That is the crucial difference. A Huichol Indian, for instance, goes to the peyote ceremony knowing that his encounter with the sacred cactus will confirm his tribal consciousness, its myths and traditional units of experience...
...least some portion of the Bible had been published in 1,136 languages and dialects-the complete Bible in 215, the New Testament in 273, one or more Gospels in 648. During the year the society added three new languages: Huichol and Otomi (Mexican Indian) and Combe (Spanish Guinea). But there are more than 1,000 tongues in which no part of the Bible has yet appeared...