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Supported Spiritual Texts- 


Tao Te' ching

The Bible (Gnostic "Banned" Text included)

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Buddhist Texts

Hindu Texts

book of tobit

book of enoch




Holidays/Festivals-


Birth of Jesus Christ (Thought to be Late Sep. (30th?) 5 B.C.E. or possibly June 17th 2 B.C.E.)

Enlightenment of the Buddha

Good Friday/Easter (death and rising of christ)

All Hallows Eve & All Hallows Day

Earth Day (Enviromental Awareness)

Festival of Humanity (Mid-Spring, Huge Trip festival)

Thanksgiving

Fasting Holiday (deep meditation, etc.)

Leap Time (5 day period once every 4 years before the begining of the new year, a time of "no time", must forgive pay all depts and forgive all depters, etc.)

Winter Solstice-  occurs some time between December 20 and December 23 each year in the northern hemisphere, and between June 20 and June 23 in the southern hemisphere.

Summer solstice- occurs some time between June 20 and June 23 each year in the northern hemisphere, and between December 20 and December 23 in the southern hemisphere.


Equinox- occurring around March 20 and September 22 each year.




Ceromony (While Tripping)-


Pretend your an animal of your choosing.

Fire dance

Make Music with weird instruments

Howl at the Moon

Absorb the stars, mists and moonlight

meditate

Spiritwalk- Walk through the wilderness at night

Lie in comfotable contemplation




Community-


Raise lifestock

Cultivate ethnobotanicals

Enrich the Soil

Protect the Enviroment

Help purify the Water and Air

Control Population and Illness through non-violent methods

Society and Moral Concerning Psychoactives-

Blatant public intoxication is unaccectable.

Driving, operating machinery or performing other possibly dangerous acts while intoxicated is extremely unaccectable.

Entheogenic initiation at 17-19, no drugs and/or psychoactives or any sort should be taken in a child's life before his/her initiation, nor should they have sexual intercourse or marry.



Church/Temple Postistions-


Preist

Shaman- altered states, using mostly psychoactive botanicals to heal on a spiritual as well as physical level

Astromoer/date setter/forture teller

Witch-Doctor/Medinicine man- Use herbs and other psychoactive and non-psychoactive botanicals to heal, heals on physical level and dietary.



Some Temple Beliefs-


Show commasion for all beings. Do not take pleasure in other beins pain.

Strong family structure.

The Temple accepts all people, all races, sexes and Homo sapiens of every type, as long as they are over 17 years of age.

A return to communal, logical and more sensible systems of society.

The use of botanicals as a means of spirtuaility, enjoyment, enlightenment and happiness.

Equailty among sexes, races and all members of the species "sapiens" of genus "Homo".

Peace among all of humanity. Non-voilence among Homo sapiens.

Enviromental resortation and preservation.

Never sell the botanical sacraments nor give them away to any person who is not a member of the Temple, or outside spiritual context.



Some Simple Beliefs-


1) The killing of Homo sapiens is the immoral.


2) All Homo sapiens are born equal, no matter their race, nor gender.


3) The planet Earth, the third planet from the Sun, is the home of all Homo sapiens. It is to be cherished and protected.


4) Entheogenic botanicals are a viable part of Homo sapiens spirituality, both streching into the past, and reaching into the future. Their use may not be restricted.



Entheogens Advocated by the Temple must have a "yes" answer to the following Questions-


1) Does it come directly from organic botanical sources?


2) Does it have a long history of human use?


3) Does it's history of human use show that it is an effective entheogen?


4) Does it's history of human use show that it is relatively safe?



Ethnobotanicals Rights-


1) All living and dried botanicals shall remain legal to cultivate and possess. No unprocessed part of any botanicals may be restricted by law.


2) The spiritual use of psychoactive botanicals shall remain legal to practice on private property, in a private church, temple, club or other organization or in one's home.






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