... of the universe. The worship of God does often underlie the worship given to the dead. Belief in survival and in communication between the living and the dead is the basis of the worship of ancestors and of the deceased in general, infect it is called worship "through- the ... protection and mediation with the great ancestral lineage retrospectively to great "Mwari- God. To the Shona people, the dead through physically separated from the physically living, translate to spiritual beings and live in the earlier parted in their myriad, i.e. son, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-...

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... community in a place called, Igarapé Mapiá where he built a prominent hexagonal-shaped church to hold the Works. By the 1980s, the Mapiá community had a few hundred people living self-sufficiently and still performing the rituals on an on-going basis. The Daime', as they came to call the sacred Ayahuasca drink, was the most important aspect of the ... suggests that entheogens may hold the key to future spiritual enlightenment. It is important though that one needs to be living the spiritual truths revealed in the drink, as is it stated: "it is not the having of religious experiences,...

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