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This paper examines how the Wixárika, or Huichol, as they are more commonly known to the outside world, have successfully engaged in a decade-long struggle to save their ceremonial homeland of Wirikuta. They have fended off a Canadian silver mining company’s attempts to dig mine…

In recent decades, psychologists have come to realize religion and spirituality are important dimensions of individual and family narratives and have begun to include these dimensions in mental health assessment and treatment. Studies have indicated the majority of individuals r…

The dominant position in contemporary analyses of mystical experience is that of Steven Katz, who argues that all experience is necessarily mediated. This perspective insists that direct experience (experience unmediated by context) cannot happen, and maintains that mystical exp…