https://youtu.be/ez4BCC1p3Ts https://youtu.be/Tx6iKZQwc6I Before the COVID-19 pandemic, news feeds were filled with stories of overdose, skyrocketing death rates, pill mills, and fentanyl. The headlines reflected the loss...

Neuroscientist Dráulio de Araújo leads clinical trials to gauge the antidepressant potential of DMT, but is also keen on deciphering why this psychedelic compound abounds in the jurema tree and all over the natural world.

What differentiates indigenous ayahuasca use from the universe that has erupted out of it is, in the first place, its indefiniteness. Used across the globe...

When I entered Brazil’s National Museum as a master’s student in social anthropology, I knew only that I wanted to specialize in the anthropology of art...

In the first part of this series on the Epistemics of Ayahuasca, Medical Anthropologist Adam Aronovich presents insights based on his long term qualitative research in the rainforest, framing them within ways of being and knowing prevalent amongst amazonian amerindian groups and the ongoing eradication of non-hegemonic epistemologies by the dominant culture.

From their experience as a psychedelic mother and father, Jacqueline Alves Rodrigues and Glauber Loures de Assis share 10 topics on psychedelic parenthood that deserve more attention. The topics address issues of gender, diversity, and Indigenous traditions. Ultimately, they argue that working to include families in psychedelic spaces will strengthen the psychedelic community.

Human beings have sought out the sensory experiences associated with psychedelic drugs for millennia. On every continent and in every setting, they have sought...

Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the Upper Rio Negro in northwest Brazil, reflects on the global coronavirus...

This article explores the idea of the psychedelic experience as a “double-edged sword” in the way that although spiritual revelations and insights can aid in bettering mental health, these revelations and insights can also lead to further damaging the psychology of an individual. The authors explore potential causes and solutions to this dilemma.

Four Chacruna Institute members sit down to address eight frequently asked questions about the globalization of ayahuasca. They address issues related to cultural appropriation, legalization, religion and spirituality and are careful to outline the positive and negative aspects of the current rapid globalization of ayahuasca use.