We Are Harvesting the Ayahuasca Vine at an Alarming Rate
Over-harvesting ayahuasca is putting the sustainability of the medicine, the communities, and several branches of industry in question.
Getting Arrested and Released for Ayahuasca in Israel
I am 45 years old, live in Israel, and am a psychotherapist in
private practice. I also teach other therapists to combine shamanic...
Ayahuasca and the Problems of the World
I wasn't planning to be here. I wasn't planning to come to this conference because I'm running out of fuel. You know,...
Ayahuasca Is About More Than Just You. It’s About Planetary Health.
Fueled by advanced medical and scientific research, the Amazonian brew ayahuasca has become increasingly popular in Western societies in recent years. For...
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...
Syrian rue (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...