REVIEW: MIAMI HERALD SUNDAY MAGAZINE March 13, 1966

March 13, 1966 issue of

The Miami Herald Sunday Magazine.

Condition: moderate tanning due to age; scrambled letters puzzle on page 15 has been (correctly) completed in pencil;

otherwise good; 20 pages.

CONTENTS:

MAJOR FEATURES:

Cover and pages 10 & 11: PEYOTE: SEED OF DISCORD --

AN INDIAN CHURCH FIGHTS TO KEEP

ITS ‘SACRED MUSHROOM’

The Native American Church is a Christian church which uses peyote in its sacraments, based on its unique interpretation of a single phrase in Romans 14.  The church is retaining ‘pagan’ aboriginal practices which can be traced back to Aztec usages.  This is very similar to the modern Christian church having adopted ‘pagan’ practices for reasons of political correctness circa 325 AD after it became the official religion of the Roman Empire.  The difference is that the NAC is not in a position of power where it can protect itself from persecution by itself becoming a persecutor.  Aboriginal peyote users have been persecuted in North America ever since the Spanish began burning them at the stake five centuries ago.  Although peyote has always been referred to by aboriginals as ‘sacred mushroom’, it is not a mushroom at all; it is a cactus derivative.  Aboriginals in the American South use the water turkey as a symbol of the rising through the chakras facilitated by the peyote; aboriginals further north use the sacred thunderbird in the same manner.  This article provides information on the legal battles of the NAC in particular, and aboriginals in general, not to be deterred from peyote use; some details on the scientific investigation of the substance; and the history of the subject.

Pages 4 & 5: THE BUSINESS OF REALITY [2 photos]

An account of an evening playing pool against Minnesota Fats

Page 8: HOUNDS IN A HURRY [1 photo]

This article outlines the over 6,000 year history of greyhound racing, with emphasis on Florida since the 1920s.  Greyhound racing is depicted on Egyptian tombs, is mentioned in Proverbs 30, and is referred to in the same sentence in Shakespeare’s Henry V from whence Sherlock Holmes derives his cry:

the games afoot!

REGULAR FEATURES:

Page 2: Q & A [5 questions]

Page 6: Photo-spread: Chess players [4 photos]

Page 7: Column: Goren on bridge

Page 12: Column: Life with Larry Thompson

Page 13: Fashion: Tips On Lips [Gidget’s advice on lipstick]

Page 14: Sunday Crossword

Page 15: Reviews: Records [10 records receive one-paragraph reviews,

including Man of La Mancha soundtrack]

Page 16: Cooking: two St. Patrick’s Day recipes [Shamrock Cake / Boiled Frosting]

Page 17: Essay: Teaching Responsibility is the Parents’ Task

Page 18: Home Décor: budget re-decorating hints for children’s bedrooms

MAJOR ADS:

Page 2: pool and patio, complete, installed $1,988!

Page 3: Kraft Chocolates

Page 5: Kraft Mayonnaise

Page 7: records by RCA Victor [Eddy Arnold featured]

Page 9: Rubberoid corrugated bulkheading

Page 17: May-Bud Cheese

Back cover: Richards All-Steel Cabinets

KANGAROO POET COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM:

The item up for auction here was examined by each of the 13 Kangaroo City Poets who operate this eBay store, and they were each asked to make ONE comment on the item.  This illustrates the many ways in which the same item can be perceived, and the diversity of responses to the same item.  What the poets said:

ROBBIN, one of two gay Poets [the orientation is 2 gay, 3 bi, 8 straight] was intrigued by the similarity in the struggle for recognition by mainstream Christianity of the Native American Church [which uses peyote in its communion liturgy] with his own experiences in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches [the so-called gay church] as it seeks acceptance by the mainstream.

NATT, the architect, looked at the technical description in an ad promoting bulkheading for Miami-area waterfront residents, and concluded that the solution would be subject to the original problem [under-base erosion] fifty years down the line, but that might not matter because most of the buyers would be dead by then.

JAYMES, the professional gambler, wondered how the biorhythm of greyhounds compared with humans, for use as a betting tool.

JDC, who is the same size and shape as Minnesota Fats at his best, rejoiced to find what he held to be moral support for snacking during the play of billiards.

RABIN, the English teacher, wants to get permission to reproduce the Weisberger article on discipline in his local high school’s e-zine.

HANS, retired cop, wondered whose move was next in one picture of the chess photo spread, because both white and black had a good move available.  Who is going first?

ANDREA, one of 3 Poets who are a shaman [the others: K’lakokum and Hans] was intrigued by the statistic that in scientific trials in France only 3 of  60 subjects who took peyote experienced hallucinations, and that in the news article 22 men took the peyote but only the shaman had visions.  She referred to K’lakokum’s essay On Hardness of Hearing, and the scripture which states that only the spiritual can see the spiritual, to support her argument that the peyote will only take into The House of Invention those who are spiritually qualified.

NORM, one of 3 Poets with a Jewish background [the others: Hans and Syd], connected the idea of the mushroom which isn’t a mushroom to The Moses Legacy’s assertions that the pre-Judaic religion began with an hallucinogenic experience in the Sinai mountains, distorted in the re-telling to a burning bush when the original was a burning sensation in the esophagus.

JHM, the only left-wing one of 7 Poets who have run for public office [the others: Syd, K’lakokum, Robbin – Libertarian; Norm, Hans – Conservative; Jaymes – Republican(USA)]  was very interested in the legal history of the [to 1966] aboriginal victories against the establishment. 

BERNHARDT, one of 3 Poets convicted of murder [the others: Paul and Rabin], was interested in the reference to strychnine as an ingredient of peyote, and pointed to its poisonous similarity to arsenic, to which the real Jack the Ripper was addicted, as the down-side of the peyote experience, since every force contains its opposite; good contains evil; light contains darkness; and this containing-the-opposite in the material world has been documented by James Churchward and others.

SYD, the photographer who is also ordained as a rabbi [4 of the Poets are ordained; the others: JHM, Unitarian; K’lakokum: Baptist; Bernhardt: Roman Catholic], thought of Habbakkuk’s diatribe against the crutches; that peyote is one of those crutches; that the crutches are an artificial means to rise through the chakras to reach the Field of One; because the crutches are artificial, they require artifice; they are an attempt to short-cut the path of salvation.

PAUL, the cross-dressing gourmand, wondered about using parsley as the colour agent to create a St. Patrick’s Day recipe for the sacred mushroom.

K’LAKOKUM, [Karl] editor of the Kangaroos’ periodical South of Tuk, couldn’t keep it to just one comment, and pointed out that in South of Tuk #12, Norm wrote an article about the sacred mushroom in the art of Norval Morrisseau.  In Issue #59, JHM wrote an article about the experience of colour under hallucination, such hallucination made possible by LSD, peyote, and the sacred mushroom.  In Issue #135, K’lakokum discussed the magic mushroom in Morrisseau’s Warrior Finds Soma [24x 34n, 1979, catalogue raisonne number muaa].  The amanita muscaria which is believed to be the sacred or magic mushroom was used by the shaman to enter The House of Invention.  From the 9^th to 13^th century in Europe, it was widely believed that what Eve ate was not an apple, but the sacred mushroom.  This may have started as a Catholic device to keep people away from a consciousness-raising substance.  The Aztecs [who used it in their spiritual rituals] called it nanacatyl. 

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TO COME:  a logic puzzle based on this review