In the Magic Land of Peyote

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IN THE MAGIC LAND OF PEYOTE Introduction by Peter T. Furst Translated by John Upton (With 32 photographs taken at the Huichole ceremonies) ego, time, space and the laws of the world all vanish! The first non-lndian to travel with the Huicholes, Fernando Benitez returns with them to the barren desert of their ancestors where they relive the sacred peyote hundas undertaken bythe gods in the beginning oftime. For the Huicholes, the myth takes on the flesh of reality. The pilgrims themselves become deities when they return to the sacredplaceandare carried back to the mvthical time when the order of life and being was established. The secret, spiritual rituals open the door to higher consciousness and to mysterious depths in states-of-being rarely, if found in our own culture. The Magic Land Of Peyote offers a glimpse into the prehistory of man, a gateway to a new way of thinking, and an illuminating study of the origins of the earliest mindexpanding drug. (Journal of American Folklore)