Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene
The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with...
Meet the Person Serving Ayahuasca to Inmates in Brazil: An Interview...
Edilsom Fernandes, the creator of an ayahuasca congregation in Brazil, was contacted in 2012 by an association that helps rehabilitate prisoners. The...
The “Traditional” Ayahuasca Ceremony Is Probably a Recent Invention
An ayahuasca ceremony is a ritual dedicated to immersing yourself fully into the effects of the sacred brew, ayahuasca. As the brew...
Ayahuasca Can Help Us Heal Deep Wounds of Global History
When I first flew above the Amazon, I admired a solid sea of canopies that reached from one horizon to the other...
Peganum Harmala, the “Ayahuasca” of North Africa and Eurasia
Wildly popular across Europe, Asia, and North Africa for thousands of years, Peganum harmala is a perennial plant that has a lot...
Ayahuasca Exotica and High Fashion on the Kenzo Runway
Last week, models in Paris marched a visionary runway silhouetted by a massive installation of Pablo Amaringo’s iconic indigenous art from Peru. The mythic...
Ayahuasca Joined the Parliament of the World’s Religions
In November 2018, around seven thousand people from over 200 religions and spiritual traditions gathered in Toronto for the Parliament of the World's Religions....
New Documentary Shows Veterans Treating PTSD with Ayahuasca
Around 20% of recent Unites States war veterans suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to research produced by RAND. Nearly half of...
The DMT drug is not a drug, its much stranger
DMT is a psychoactive molecule and in this sense it is a drug. The title of this article is provocative for a very good...
Ayahuasca stirs up debate over its effects
A recent invitation I received to write an essay about yajé (or ayahuasca) for an academic-type anthology on the “the power of psychedelics for...