Apprenticed to a Mexican-Indian sorcerer, young Carlos Castaneda, writing in the 1960s, consumes peyote, believing the plant contains "Mescalito," a being who could reveal the insights a man of ...

Used in Native religious ceremonies but now adopted by A-list celebrities, the cactus is threatened by land development and over-harvesting Earlier this fall, leaders of the Native American Church of ...

Peyote is a small, spineless, button-shaped cactus capable of producing hallucinatory effects upon ingestion. While there have been movements in recent years to protect indigenous peoples’ religious ...

For many Native American Church members who call this region the "peyote gardens," the plant is sacrosanct and an inextricable part of their prayer and ceremony. It’s believed to be a natural healer ...