Category: Culture

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized: Psychedelics’ Potential for Systemic Change

The oceanlike immensity of joyArising when all beings will be freed.Will this not be enough?...

Is Ayahuasca Possibly Less than Five Hundred Years Old?

It makes a difference, indeed, whether we report to the public that we are investigating...

Cute as Children, but Not Handsome as Adults: María Sabina, Life Magazine, and Cold War Propaganda

Gordon Wasson’s 1957 article in Life Magazine about his mushroom ceremony with the Mazatec curandera...

Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night

The Path of Day Henchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in...

Fifty Shades of Green

The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film...

Coronavirus, Self-Isolation, and the Pragmatic Fatalism of Indigenous Peoples

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals,...

Coronavirus Brings Back Memories

Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the Upper Rio...

Humankind Crowned – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Virus

To put it up front, this essay is not about relativization. I am sitting in...

Voluntary Isolation in the Age of Coronavirus

While such drastic measures of social distancing are novel and challenging in our hyper-connected contemporary...

Kambô, Rapé and Sananga: A Reset on Body, Mind and Vision

On the road opened by the expansion of ayahuasca in urban centers, other native plants,...

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