In 1935 Artaud decided to go to Mexico, where he was convinced there was ‘a sort of deep movement in favour of a return to civilisation before Cortez’. He received a grant to travel to Mexico, where in 1936 he met his first Mexican-Parisian friend, the painter Federico Cantú, when Cantú gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. Artaud also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and participated in peyote rites, his writings about which were later released in a volume called Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumara, published in English under the title The Peyote Dance (1976).* The content of this work closely resembles the poems of his later days, concerned primarily with the supernatural. Artaud also recorded his horrific withdrawal from heroin upon entering the land of the Tarahumaras. Having deserted his last supply of the drug at a mountainside, he literally had to be hoisted onto his horse and soon resembled, in his words, “a giant, inflamed gum”. Artaud would return to opiates later in life.

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The Peyote Dance by Antonin Artaud @ Internet Archive