The Native American Church, also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a syncretic Native American religion that teaches a combination of traditional Native American beliefs and elements of Christ
Peyote road
A peyote set such as this is used by the medicine man during the peyote ritual.
Peyote, also known as Lophophora williamsii, is a small, spineless cactus which contains psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline. Peyote is a Spanish word derived from the Nahuatl peyōtl, meani
Native American Church
…Native American beliefs and elements of Christianity, especially pertaining to some of the Ten Commandments, with sacramental use of the entheogen peyote. The religion originated in the Oklahoma Territory (1890–1907) in the late nineteenth century, after peyote was introduced to the southern Great Plains…
Peyote Cactus
A group of Lophophora williamsii
A flowering peyote
Lophophora williamsii seedling at roughly 1+1⁄2 months of age