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Japanese researcher and water guru, Masaru Emoto published Water Crystal Healing (Music & Images To Restore Your Well-Being) with Beyond Word and Atria Books last November. The multimedia project comes with 2 compact discs featuring stunning compositions by various classical composers, including Claude Debussy, Richard Wagner, Johann Strauss II, Jean Sibelius and others along with photographs of water crystals that derived from water exposed to the music on the CDs. So now we can actually see what Claude Debussy's Prelude to Afternoon of the Faun looks like. For more information about Masaru Emoto's book, go to Beyond Word Publishing

Father Peyote: Songs of the Native American Church Introduction to the Peyote Church Ceremony This is an archival article written in 2003.  It's not updated.  For more recent recordings, go to Canyon Records website, http://www.canyonrecords.com When some people speak of Native American ceremonies, the peyote ceremony or the ingestion of the hallucinogen peyote (contains mescaline) usually surfaces. However, there is too much false information being passed around in the non-native community surrounding peyote meetings. The first thing people need to know about the Native American connection to peyote is that the plant is sacred medicine ingested as a sacrament during healing ceremonies of the Native American Church. The second thing, people need to know is that the Native American Church is not a set structure like the Christian Church. The peyote meeting could take place in a Navajo hogan or a teepee. And finally, since the peyote meeting does in part derive fro...