Diana Negrín, Ph.D, reflects on growing up in Guadalajara and listening in to her father, Juan Negrín, pioneer researcher of the Wixarika culture, in conversation about the intersection between Western and Indigenous scientific knowledge with friends from the California psychedelic community like Sasha Shulgin.

The history of transforming peyote into mescaline is a story of separating plants from people. It is a story of colonialism.

Through this narrative fictional account, Andrew Penn offers a literary image of underground pharmaceutical practice by telling the story of the SSRI circles of 1985 in New York City. He compares this with the growing popularity of psychedelics in the mainstream and excitement for clinical trials while at the same time underground practice still exists.

Gordon Wasson’s 1957 article in Life Magazine about his mushroom ceremony with the Mazatec curandera María Sabina arrived wrapped in several layers of familiar...

Ethnobotanist, Jean-Francois Sobiecki, outlines his research journey studying African psychoactive and psychedelic plants and their importance in understanding learning, growth and self development as well as their use as ubulawu in treating nervous system disease and mental illness.

Reporter recounts his experience as a volunteer in a Brazilian study that investigates the antidepressant potential of a psychedelic substance extracted from a tree native to the semi-arid Caatinga Region.

Ergot is a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and serves as the raw material for lysergic acid (LSD). Through the story of ergot, Beat Bächi shows how the history of LSD is connected to the history of agricultural industrialization and the reorganization of seed breeding in Switzerland.

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...

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.

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....