Culture & Society

Introduction This interview with Ram Dass was first published in Nature & Health, Vol. 9 No. 4 (Summer 1988), under the name Miles Bennett, a...

In this essay, we squeeze into the back seat of McKenna’s “Archaic Revival” tour, his first and only visit to the country. Encouraged by a small community of plant medicine enthusiasts and facilitated by promoter Dillon Hicks, for a brief moment, McKenna served as alien frontman for the Australian experimental music underground. 

This article is adapted from the book Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds (Stanford University Press, 2024) by anthropologist Alex K. Gearin.   When I...

The entheobotanical community has its own particular culture. Just like gardeners recognise each other because there’s always a bit of soil under our fingernails...

When we think of the effects of psychedelics, it is often in terms of the alterations they cause in cognitive processes and visual perception....

Hallucinations occur during what doctors call psychosis, but they can also manifest outside the corridors of what is considered sick and dysfuctional. They can...

This article was the keynote address at ICEERS’ Third World Ayahuasca Conference, May 31-June 2, 2019 in Girona, Catalonia. It’s truly an honor to have...

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves? - Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami Ours is a civilization...

I estimate that a few thousand people have had a DMT trip in mainland China. I heard of it for the first time from...

Over-harvesting ayahuasca is putting the sustainability of the medicine, the communities, and several branches of industry in question. The signs that wild ayahuasca is...