Auntie Etha’s Cow-Lip Tea by P.D. Newman
Many Hoodoo practices continue to be shrouded in secrecy. So, it may be impossible to determine just how far back this tradition among African Americans extends.
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Transhumancia by C Rodriguez Lanfranco
THIS POEM ITS FROM AN UNPUBLISHED BOOK CALL “WHEN THE LAND ENDS” “CUANDO LA TIERRA SE ACABA. POEMA INEDITO by C Rodriguez Lanfranco
My Little Selk’nam Army by C Rodriguez Lanfranco
With this work I pay a debt to my history as a painter. Body painting being a theme that has crossed all of my work
Octaves and the Tarot by P.D. Newman
A Second Look at Leary’s Eight-Circuit Model: Gurdjieff’s Law of Octaves and the TarotP.D. NewmanAlong with Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil, Timothy Leary was part of what has been called “the Harvard Psychedelic Club.” Fired from his position at Harvard University for failing to attend scheduled class lectures, Leary is perhaps best known as being one of the most …
JoLu Amaringo on Vegetal Ceremonies
My visionary artworks are based on the two plants needed to prepare the ayahuasca brew. A snake emerges from the ayahuasca vine, surrounded by fuchsia flowers. There is also another snake, the chacruna snake, green in color with its luminous leaves. Radiation comes out of his mouth. The chacruna snake penetrates the ayahuasca snake, producing …
Orishas by P.D. Newman
“Ifá tells us that when he is enraged, Obaluaiye [Babalú Ayé] takes [his] special broom and spreads sesame seeds (yamoti) on the earth before him, then sweeps the seeds before him, in ever-widening circles. As the broom begins to touch the dust and the dust begins to rise, the seeds, like miniature pockmarks, ride the …
ANIMISM IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST by Christine S. VanPool and Elizabeth Newsome
People often imbue their surroundings, including tools, with a “life essence” that makes them active objects. A growing number of archaeologists are beginning to study how such “living” beings impact human behavior. These archaeologists use the term “object agency,” but employ many different ontological approaches. We explore this variation, and present a framework comparing different …
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