Temple of the True Inner Light
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| Formation | 1980 |
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| Founders | Alan Birnbaum (born 1946 or 1947 (age 79–80)) |
| Type | Psychedelic church |
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| Members | Unknown (but five in 1989) |
Publication | Testimony to the Psychedelic (1981); Temple Literature (2010s) |
| Website | psychede.tripod.com (alt) youtube |
Formerly called | The Church of the Psychedelic Eucharist (1975); The Native American Church of New York (1976–1979) |
The Temple of the True Inner Light (TTIL), also once formerly known as the Native American Church of New York (NACNY), is a small psychedelic church or cult that was founded in 1980 and operated for decades, most notably on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York. It employed the legal psychedelic drug dipropyltryptamine (DPT; "The Light") as its eucharist and believed DPT and other psychedelics to be God in physical form. The group is not actually Native American in any way, but an earlier and much larger incarnation of the church called the Native American Church of New York operated between 1976 and 1979 and focused primarily on use of peyote.