The Peyote Book

Book

0-9604462-3-0

A Study of Native Medicine

3rd Edition

144

PEYOTE HEALING MEDICINE PSYCHEDELIC PEYOTISM American Indian Church Navaho Yaqui

Topic: PEYOTISM FIRST NATIONS SACRAMENT MEDICINE Author: Guy Mount
Binding: Softcover, Wraps Subject: Science & Medicine
Region: North America
THE PEYOTE BOOK : A STUDY OF NATIVE MEDICINE
Compiled and Edited by GUY MOUNT
Published by Sweetlight Books, Cottonwood , California
1993 Expanded Third Edition Revised and Enlarged
This book is a pictorial Soft Cover in near fine condition with 144 pages and with lots of black and white photographs and illustrations of peyote related people and subjects.
FROM THE COVER == THE PEYOTE BOOK is an educational collection for the Friends of the Native American Church .
It is a collection of ancient legends, healing testimonials, spiritual and philosophical perceptions, songs, stories and artwork inspired by the Good Medicine.
Scientific evaluations of peyote are also included, showing antibiotic activity, plus other medical and psychological benefits.
Special attention is given to the value of peyote in childbirth, concern for legal use and distribution—regardless of race or ethnic heritage,
and the need for environmental protection to prevent extinction in the United States of America.
CONTENTS INCLUDE ==
Introduction and Meditation
PART ONE: Peyote Legends and Origin Stories
How Peyote Came To People — Yaqui Indians
Apache Origin Story — Apache Indians
Good Medicine — Shoshone Indians
PART TWO: Testimonials for Healing and Childbirth
I Used To Suffer — Mountain Wolf Woman
A Good Road — Jeannette Mount
Let The Medicine Do It — Navaho Indians
I Too Got Better — Navaho Indians
A Cure For Everything Bad — Winnebago Indians
Going For Peyote — Navaho Indians
This Herb — Washo Indians
PART THREE: The Native American Church
A Peyote Thought — Monroe Tsa Toke
Many Ways to God — Virginia Trenholm
It Will Replace Christianity — Vine Deloria
It's All One — Leonard Crow Dog
A Papal Blessing — Paul Steinmetz, S.J
The Medicine Itself Will Teach Us — Winnebago Indians
All My Relatives — Navaho Indians
A Peyote Vision — Monroe Tsa Toke
Four Peyote Prayers — N. Scott Momaday
I Am Converted - Winnebago Indians
Using Peyote Right — Rolling Thunder
A White Peyote Church — Stephen Gaskin
The Church Of Father Peyote — Carl Hammerschlag
The Peyote Road — James Slotkin
Medicine People — Sun Bear
PART FOUR: Gathering Peyote
A Big Blessing—Sac and Fox
The Gathering Of Peyote — Apache Indians
A Peyote Gathering Song — Huichol Indians
Chew It Well — Huichol Indians
Peyote Dancing — Richard E. Schultes
PART FIVE: Scientific and Medical Reports
There's A Big Difference Between Peyote And A Pill — Richard E. Schultes
Antibiotic Activity Of An Extract Of Peyote — David L. Walkington
Apparent Safety Of Peyote — Robert Bergman and Karl Menninger
A Medical Report —Virgil J. Vogel
Better Than Stitches—Guy Mount
Folk Medicine —Isabel Kelly
Home Remedy— Guy Mount
PART SIX: Ecology and development of Peyote
Ecology Of Peyote — Edward F. Anderson
Development Of Lophophora — Guy Mount
PART SEVEN: Peyote and The Law
The Woody Case — Omer C. Stewart
California Law
A Federal Court Finding
A Texas Decision
U.S. Supreme Court Decision 1988
A Real Commitment — Omer C. Stewart
PART EIGHT: Conclusion and Testimonials
The Peyote Way Church Of God — Anne Zapf
Through The Lens Of Perception — Hal Zena Bennett
Letters To The Editor
A Book Review—J.B. Herring
About The Editor
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ILLUSTRATIONS
Peyote Meeting by Cecil Murdock—Front Cover*
Peyote Bird by Mana
Peyote Chief by Alfred Whiteman
Quanah Parker , Courtesy Smithsonian Institute
Mountain Wolf Woman , Courtesy Speltz Studios and Nancy Lurie
Jeannette Mount In Labor by Guy Mount
Peyote Dreamers by Al Momaday
Morning Peyote by Rance Hood
Sun Bear
Natural Distribution [Map] by E.F. Anderson
Peyote In Bloom by Larry Noggle
Peyote Dancers Courtesy Richard E. Schultes
Peyote Vision by Christobal Gonzalez
Pollination of Peyote by Larry Noggle
Native Medicine by Guy Mount
Earthpeace by Jefree' Hall
Spirit Quest by Mana
Rev. Immanuel Trujillo ,Courtesy Anne Zapf
Peyote Way Church Of God Family Portrait
The Editor by Jeannette Mount
Many Blessings by Ruby Mount
The Cormorant by Monroe Tsa Toke— Rear Cover*
*Contemporary Southern Plains Indian Painting: Miles Libhart, Ed. 1972 Provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Southern Plains Indian Museum and Crafts Center: Box 749, Anadarko, OK.
MORE ABOUT== Lophophora williamsii or peyote is a small, spineless cactus with psychoactive alkaloids, particularly mescaline.
The English common name peyote comes from the like-spelled Spanish name, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl name peyōtl ,
said to be derived from a root meaning "glisten" or "glistening".
Native North Americans are likely to have used peyote, often for spiritual purposes, for at least 5,500 years.
Peyote is native to Mexico and southwestern Texas. It is found primarily in the Chihuahuan desert and in the states of Coahuila,
Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi among scrub, especially where there is limestone.
Known for its psychoactive properties when ingested, peyote is used worldwide as an entheogen and supplement to various transcendence practices, including meditation, psychonautics, and psychedelic psychotherapy. Peyote has a long history of ritualistic and medicinal use by indigenous Americans.
It flowers from March through May, and sometimes as late as September. The flowers are pink, with thigmotactic anthers (like Opuntia).
Mescalin
MORE ABOUT == The Native American Church (NAC), also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a Native American religion
characterized by mixed traditional as well as Protestant beliefs and by sacramental use of the entheogen peyote.
The religion originated in the U.S. state of Oklahoma in the late nineteenth century after peyote was introduced to the southern Great Plains from Mexico.
Today it is the most widespread indigenous religion among Native Americans in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with an estimated 250,000 adherents as of the late twentieth century.

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