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		<title>Baptism of Madness</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2010/06/baptism-of-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mystical island of Ometepe, rising from Lake Nicaragua with twin volcanoes, exudes an intense, otherworldly quality. Scores of ancient statues and clay urns litter the isle, where a highly organized society once lived, thrived, died and practiced wide-spread human sacrifice. I began to wonder if any remnants of the old religion had survived the centuries, and my search for ancient traditions led straight to the unsettling world of sorcery.]]></description>
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		<title>Spirits, Saints and the Art of Sacrifice: San Juan Chamula</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayan village of San Juan Chamula is a bastion of archaic philosophy and pre-Hispanic lore. Here the old gods are alive and well, merely clothed in the robes of saints. The Maya are a cunning bunch, I realised, to have avoided assimilation for so many centuries. ]]></description>
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		<title>Psychedelic Soul Seeking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I was fortunate enough to visit Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca, and partake in the mushroom velada. I had high expectations for my trip into the otherworld, but of course, grim reality always tends to thwart our expectations. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mushrooms and Mysticism in Highland Oaxaca</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with anthropologist Dr Ben Feinberg, expert on Mazatec culture and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=029270190X/ref=nosim/ecotravelsinlatiA/" target="_blank">The Devil's Book of Culture: History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico</a>]]></description>
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		<title>In search of the sorcerors of Catemaco</title>
		<link>http://interamericana.co.uk/2009/08/in-search-of-the-sorcerors-of-catemaco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year on the first thursday of March, a cavalcade of sorcerers, healers and conjurers descends upon Catemaco, reminiscent of some Dark Age witches’ gathering. They perform dramatic public cleansings (or limpiezas), cast spells, swap potions and engage in endless theatrics. Originally intended as a knowledge-sharing convention for the region’s healers, it has now become [...]]]></description>
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