San Pedro Cactus - Trichocereus pachanoi

Cactus Of The Four Winds

Trichocereus pachanoi, The Cactus Of The Four Winds or San Pedro has been used in South American shamanism for over three thousand years. Both names attest to the effectiveness of this Mescaline containing columnar cactus.

The Four Winds, refers to an ancient shamanic cosmology of the origin of the Universe and the structure of space-time and its relationship to consciousness, the vertical and horizontal planes, the four inter-cardinal directions and the Axis mundi. San Pedro, or Saint Peter in English, is the geometric embodiment of The Cross, and a natural lingustic transmutation and Christianisation of the sacrament.

The State religion of the Roman Catholic Church claimed its authority and divinity from God. Having indulged in ignorance, dualism and polarity for millennia with the use of a placebo sacrament, the church associated the true ecstatic states of shamans with the practices of the devil. And rightly so. The shaman, the Horned One, The One Who Sees In The Dark is The Prince Of Darkness, the archetypal practitioner of the sacred.

Aware that faith and knowledge are mutually exclusive, the Roman Catholic Church attempted to eradicate from the Andes, the cactus, as well as the shamans who used it to heal the sick and commune with the Cosmos.

Another modern example of the transmutation of language can be seen in the geography of the State Of California.

San Pedro is the port city of Los Angeles, The City Of Angeles. San Pedro means Saint Peter in English. Saint Peter stands at the gates, the port to Heaven, the City Of Angels. The state capital of California is Sacramento, referring to the linguistically hidden sacrament of San Pedro. California is The Golden State. The state motto is,"Eureka, I've found it!"

One must be aware that to the Spaniards of the Inquisition and the materialistic spirituality of the Roman Catholic Church, gold was the alchemical equivalent of God.

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