Located on 160 acres of wilderness in southeastern Arizona, the Peyote Way Church of God was founded in 1977. Its mission is to preserve and protect Peyote, an endangered species, and to legally offer this Holy Sacrament to seekers in a safe setting.

2024年12月29日 · How is peyote used in the Native American Church? Peyote is the central part of a ceremony that takes place in a tipi around a crescent-shaped earthen altar mound and a sacred fire.

2024年12月26日 · The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American people for millennia.

The Native American Church (NAC), also known as Peyotism and Peyote Religion, is a syncretic Native American religion that teaches a combination of traditional Native American beliefs and elements of Christianity, especially pertaining to the Ten Commandments, with sacramental use of the entheogen peyote. [2]

In 1977, the Peyote Way Church of God was founded at the ranch by Trujillo, Right Sister Anne L. Zapf, and Rabbi Matthew S. Kent, for the specific purpose of “stewarding, ingesting, distributing and growing the Holy Sacrament Peyote as the essential and inseparable part” of the members’ religious beliefs.

2019年3月24日 · The Native American Church is a fusion of traditional Native American beliefs and Christianity. Learn about its central practice of consuming peyote.

2010年10月30日 · Peyote, which contains the psychoactive agent mescaline, has been used as a sacrament and holy medicine by indigenous people of the Americas for at least 6,000 years, experts say.

2025年1月12日 · The Native American Church, also known as the Peyote Religion, combines elements of indigenous practices and Christianity, and it is practiced in many places including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Canada. Their ceremonies are often held in tipis, whereas the Wixárika ceremony I attended took place outside.

2024年12月26日 · Native American Church, most widespread indigenous religious movement among North American Indians and one of the most influential forms of Pan-Indianism. The term peyote derives from the Nahuatl name peyotl for a cactus.

The Peyote Way Church of God near Safford offers followers psychedelic "Spirit Walks" fueled by the hallucinogenic cactus peyote.