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Santeria worship can conservatively claim one hundred million participants in North & Latin America. As the Hispanic migration into the United States grows, Santeria will become more & more part of American life. Yet, these rituals are a major assault on the Western mind & its established ideas of religion. Santeria deals with the passions of the soul: hatred, jealousy, fear, money & jobs, hopeless love, betrayal & the misfortune of ill health. Messages from Santeria oracles, its sacrifices & body-healings are as immediate as our blood, sweat & the heat of sex. As Michael Ventura writes in his Foreword: "...the Gods of Santeria are here...They sing, walk, talk, dance, joke, heal, curse & save through a process that the West usually classifies as psychotic...".Nunez, Luis M. is the author of 'Santeria A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic' with ISBN 9780882143491 and ISBN 0882143492.
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