What Does Ayahuasca Have To Do with Ancestors and the Dead?
Ayahuasca is a powerful psychoactive brew that originates from the Amazon rainforest. The word comes from the Indigenous Quechua words huasca, meaning...
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...
What I Learned During 15 Years as an Ayahuasca Scientist
I was first attracted to study the Amazonian brew ayahuasca in the early 2000s, when I was a graduate student in biology...
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...
How to Think about Weird Psychedelic Beings
What’s the core lesson of psychedelic practice, the lesson that still holds strong after being famously put forward by Leary’s research in 1963 and...
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...
Where Do Ayahuasca Visions Actually Come From?
Aside from its healing properties, the sacred Amazonian brew ayahuasca is well known for inspiring deep psychonautic journeys and spectacular visions. These mind adventures...
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....
Jung in the Jungle: What the Brew Ayahuasca Taught Me About...
Last year, I went to the Amazon jungle in Peru to take part in a nine-day ayahuasca retreat at a well-known center called the...
The Forgotten Science of Shamanic Plant Whispering
Ridiculed, scorned, or deliberately ignored, the truth about anything is quirky and awkward when it first emerges. Germinating at the margins of familiarity, the...