The histories of electronics and psychedelics are intertwined as Peter Sachs Collopy shows in this article about LSD and video in the mid-twentieth century. Collopy shows that both technologies were understood by their users as tools for exploring and altering consciousness.

The first LSD experiments in South America in the 1950s were carried out similarly to those in the United States, assimilating into the European psychiatric tradition. Looking at the first publications in Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Perú, Venezuela, and Uruguay, that appeared between 1954 and 1959, Hernán Scholten and Gonzalo Salas argue that it is possible to detect some general features of LSD research at the time.

How much of what we think we know about the effects of psychedelics originates from their actual effects, and how much is the product...

With the sun going down over the Sonoran Desert, Andrew led me down a dusty trail toward a narrow draw that opened onto...

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals, or shamanic chanting. But one very important health strategy...

Research and Transformation Huni meka, the songs of nixi pae (ayahuasca), are in the language of the anaconda; the phrase is from Ibã Huni Kuin....

The mystical experience is likely one of the therapeutic mechanisms for psychedelics, including ayahuasca, to have therapeutic potential for drug addiction. This article explores the findings of a study in which there was a connection between ayahuasca use and smoking cessation.

It makes a difference, indeed, whether we report to the public that we are investigating a hallucinogenic drug that was spread relatively recently through...

Our new Chacruna series will highlight the global history of psychedelics. It will highlight some of the dynamic ways that historic traditions, cultures, and research spaces have contributed to the field of psychedelics, as well as raise questions about whose knowledge and expertise has been centered through time.

While such drastic measures of social distancing are novel and challenging in our hyper-connected contemporary world, indigenous peoples have long used the strategy of...