Introduction of the book "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents"

Many evils are not evils

They are only in the heads

Of those who think them 

They are again doing as they usually do.

They come accusing, chasing, attacking.
They believe they own the truth.
 Actually, they have no idea of what they are talking about, but they say it with arrogance.
At other times they tortured and burned witches that cured the ills of the poor.
Today they are more sophisticated, but still they continue abusing, imprisoning, killing.
They have managed to outlaw the old medicines, ban the most sacred plants, cut our ties with nature and with Mother Earth.
They are the witch hunters.

They are generally well-dressed people who earn good salaries for their mission of harassment. 
They have well-equipped offices and drive expensive vehicles.
They come in various professions. Some are priests, some cops, and a good number are engaged in politics in order to approve laws that authorize them to violate other people’s freedoms.
In fact, the witch hunters can be anything, behind their false masks of serious and honorable people they hide the lowest instincts.
In the depths of their souls they do not love anyone. Not even themselves.
Maybe because they know very well the content of their dark recesses.

Their targets are young people, women, all humans who disagree, leftists, homosexuals, single mothers, and especially those who dare to explore the depths of their own awareness. 
They spend millions to pursue whoever refuses to obey their unhealthy orders They spread propaganda by all means at their disposal, which are many. 

They present erroneous data at their convenience. 
They persecute farmers planting because they know, and stigmatize the urban poor because they consume what they want.
The witch hunters are not many. 
But they are placed in positions of power that allow them to organize and execute their arbitrariness.
What is it that can lead some humans to consecrate their existence to seek sins of others within a moral where the best things in life are sins?
Why someone can spend so much energy and effort in causing damage to a lot of good, harmless and poor people?
Maybe it’s excessive desire for power. The need for some individuals to try to control their fellow citizens to make up for their own insecurity.
Whatever the cause, this is a heritage that accompanies us for a long time.
At other epochs alienating deviations were contained through permanent and intimate relationships that communities had with the sacred plants.
Today the master plants, the ones that generate visions, are unknown or stigmatized by the authorities and hierarchies.
Their attitudes are based on ignorance and hypocrisy.  
In disrespect to the wisdom contained in the complexity of nature.
We must do everything possible to clarify things, to shed light, to discover the truth.
We must defend the freedom to be ourselves. To consume the plants we want. To travel into space and return each night of ecstasy and ceremony without asking anyone’s permission.
Fighting for the freedom to believe and to be in a framework of respect for all rights.
We want this planet to be a society without hunters or victims.  A world where humans can be brothers and sisters of each other and feel a part of nature, together with other organisms, plants or animals, who have joined us in our existential journey into the future.
From "Peoples, Drugs and Serpents", Danilo Anton, Piriguazú Ediciones