Pros And Cons Of Peyotism

desert with a sleeping bag, although Ray offered them Peruvian ponchos for an additional $250. After this experience, participants ate a large buffet breakfast before entering the sweat lodge. A site owner reported she learned after the event that participants went two days without water before entering the lodge. ("James Arthur Ray - Sweat Lodge Deaths." |. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2015.)
Even after this incident in 2009, con men using peyote sacrament for the wrong reasons still goes on today. On the Internet you can find people advertising retreats and sacrament as if they were services you can pay for. Many natives are frustrated with peyotism becoming a business because it is the last pure indigenous way of life they have that has not been abused, exterminated, or cut off. …show more content…
Through religious sacraments of many kinds, peyote has been able to unlock many peoples inter connectedness to nature, each other, and the planet as a whole. This feeling of unity has expanded people’s minds in the faucets of art, literature, and the peyote view of absolute freedom and spiritual connection to the Great Spirit. Like anything, peyote, if used for the wrong reasons, can create destruction and addictive behaviors. Native Americans offered so much insight to foreign intruders over the past 200 years and were given nothing in return. Its sad to know that so much knowledge,wisdom and insight about native American culture was lost over the years due to greed, racism, ignorance, cruelty, and above all else judgmental religious practices. Growing in a Christian home I never understood how Americas founders could cut to conclusions that religions other then Christianity were to be condemned?1 John 4:7 “Dear friends, let us