Tag: drugs
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On extatic intoxication in religion
Chemical means, i. e., drugs, are employed almost exclusively by uncivilized peoples in order to produce intoxication during religious ceremonies. Brinton tells us that “in every savage tribe we find a knowledge of narcotic plants which were employed to induce strange and vivid hallucinationsor dreams …. The negroes of the Niger had their ‘fetish water‘, […]
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ON GLOBAL APPEAL AND SPREAD
It is my belief that the global appeal and spread of the Jamaican Rastafarian movement can be linked to a number of elements or factors. The first is the pre-eminent position the Bible holds in Rastafarian ritual and ideology. Second, the stress Rastas place on healthy, natural living and their sub sequent rejection of Western […]
OUT OF MANY PEOPLE COME DUB AND OUT OF DUB COME ONE PEOPLE 