Jesuits were very interested in the medicinal properties of Cannabis (...)
Ya thankfully but sadly it represents like the awared "scientist" minority in the Church ^^ ☯
Jesuits were very interested in the medicinal properties of Cannabis (...)
Ya thankfully but sadly it represents like the awared "scientist" minority in the Chuch ^^ ☯
Montuno, it's important to differenciate the hemp and psychoactive cannabis history, it appears that you confuse them!
The history of human civilization and science is immensely larger than you can realize, the egregore that constitutes the conclusions commonly accepted by modern scientific communities is a brake on the real understanding of all and every year some new discoveries refute what historians believe to know. (To not be completly outdated i suggest you to study the Olmek culture and its last scientific evidences and progress for exemple).
The theory you mention about the culture switch from the datura to psychoactive cannabis is a scientist upside down and strong nonsense and it constitute itself a general and characteristic paradoxal lack of respect in the ages to the Mexican deep and high culture.
Please calm your flood vibes man!
Si hola Funkyhorse, i think we can understand Jesuit's success at the time like a natural evolution and equilibrium to protect Native people but it didn't pleased at all Vatican.
(Jesus himself and antic prophets used the psychoactive cannabis as oil medicine)
Every people had a different psychoactive plant which I call the messanger to connect to other worlds. It is very interesting that the prophets in the old world and the Mexica people were using plants containing substances very similar to hyosciamine to connect with their Gods.
Anyway... Ah! the matter of la Santa Rosa between the Otomíes in México, je...Any historian and/or archaeologist and/or real historian can explain to you how the pre-Columbian (or rather, pre-Cortesian) ritual was with Datura, and after the arrival of the Spaniards, Cannabis replaced Datura .... A real explanation in a serious article:
http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?...92012000100008
According to Richard L. Lingeman in his book Drugs from A to Z, a 79-year-old member of the Cinco putas tribe in California remembers seeing his grandmother's daily ritual as a small child. She would take cannabis flowers from an intricately carved box and then roll them in handmade corn paper. She held the resulting "joint" in front of her and gazing at the swirling smoke she prayed, "Thank you, Great Mother!" For each of the gifts the day had brought him, as well as for his current moment of relaxation.
There are still North American tribes, particularly in Mexico, who used cannabis as a sacred gift bearing the name of Rosa Maria or Santa Rosa and continue to use it today.
Indians in the Mexican states of Veracruz, Hidalgo and Puebla perform a communal healing ceremony using a plant called Santa Rosa, identified as cannabis sativa, which is considered a plant and a sacred intermediary for communicating with the Virgin . Although the ceremony is based mostly on Christian elements, the plant is worshiped as an earthly deity and is believed to be alive and to represent a part of the heart of God.
By Chris Bennett
Early explorer Jacques Cartier, who was from a hemp growing district in France, reported hemp growing here and in use by the native Indians. Solid historical evidence of Native American use of cannabis was provided when archaeologist Bill Fitzgerald discovered five hundred year old pipes in Morriston, Ontario. Resin scrapings showed that the pipes contained “traces of hemp and tobacco that is five times stronger than the cigarettes smoked today.
(...)
https://hemp.org.au/cannabis/visions-of-a-sacred-tree/
Nobody here has equated datura with cannabis (if you had bothered to read the article, which is only a brief exposition of deep research, you would know the reason for what happened; I understand that it is not as flashy and easy to digest as those of Sensi Seeds or Soft Secrets, but this is only a brief "spoiler" of deep investigation for a true, not expert, but an aficionado of Mesoamerican topics... In fact, for a true expert on Mesoamerica, it is not even necessary to read the article to deduce why it happened, je...)
I think you should seriously consider who is disrespecting whom, because it seems evident to me that you speak and pretend to know Mesoamerican cultures from the typical and topical "old wester aptitude" of knowing better than the Mesoamericans themselves what you are talking about, and that on top of that you criticize in the demads...
I'm going to take the liberty of giving you a great Mesoamerican (pre-Columbian) piece of advice,
full of wisdom and beauty...
It's a tip about the search for truth and wisdom, and how we should appreciate the beauty of this search, even if its results contradict our prejudices... But I am sure that someone with your knowledge on the subject ("not totally outdated", like the ones I have
that I handle, either from archaeologists-anthropologists-historians, or from the Mesoamerican natives themselves), will not fail to celebrate, for sure....:
Xicmocuitlahui in tlilli, in tlapalli, in amoxtli, in tlahcuilolli, intolc, innahuac ximocalaqui in yolinzmatqui, in tlamatini.
Salud !
mexcurandero420 : De que eran? De cannabis solo, o de cannabis, datura y belladona junt@s?