This article explores a paper written by Eduardo Ekman Schenberg and Konstantin Gerber titled Overcoming epistemic injustices in the biomedical study of ayahuasca: Towards ethical and sustainable regulation. While the paper promised to explore ways of overcoming these epistemic injustices and raises important issues, the author shares vast criticism due to its many controversial and inaccurate points.

I am excited to invite you all to come join us at Psychedelic Science 2017, a conference co-hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic...

Glauber Loures de Assis addresses the issue of conspirituality within the psychedelic renaissance and shows how these Western ideas have had an impact on the Global South. He offers ways to move forward that address these issues. He emphasizes the need to counter conspirituality's individualism in order to build a supportive and reciprocal psychedelic community going forward.

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars for centuries. Noting this history, Ian Baker uses this article to reveal a living tradition of Soma consumption in an ancient center of Tantric practice in West Bengal, India.

Land and ecology matter to the global psychedelics movement because it is a movement born out of a long history of colonialism and land theft. The Indigenous peoples from which our psychedelic traditions originate continue to deal with the negative consequences of this colonial violence. Focusing on the Wixarika experience, Diana Negrin explores the intercultural work that needs to be done in order to help Indigenous communities thrive today.

Deep in the heart of South Texas, where peyote (Lophohora williamsii), the mind-expanding cactus sacrament grows, is a place known by many as the “Peyote Gardens.”...

    On Sunday, February 25, the closing ceremony for the Conference on Sacred Plants in the Americas was celebrated in the Mexican lakeside town of...

Amazonian communities in Colombia were hit hard and fast by the advent of Covid-19 to their territories. These communities were forced to adapt the ways in which they use plant medicines, particularly Yagé, and dive deep into their ancestral knowledge to uncover ways to protect themselves from the worst effects of the pandemic. What resulted was a show of resilience, pride, and unification on the part of Indigenous groups to confront this crisis.

The burgeoning expansion of ayahuasca around the globe has allowed for the evolution of an infinitely diverse array of ayahuasca practices and communities, spanning...

In this article, Stephen Snelders explores a watershed in the diffusion of LSD in the Netherlands that took place in the 1960s.