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African Psychoactive Plants - Journeys in Phytoalchemy

African Psychoactive Plants – Journeys in Phytoalchemy

Ethnobotanist, Jean-Francois Sobiecki, outlines his research journey studying African psychoactive and psychedelic plants and their...
Roger Heim

“I am a scientist!” Roger Heim’s interdisciplinary and transnational research on hallucinogenic mushrooms (and the problem of divination)

Roger Heim (1900-1979) was a French biologist whose research into psychedelic mushrooms transcended interdisciplinary and...
Eight Frequently Asked Questions About Ayahuasca Globalization

Eight Frequently Asked Questions About Ayahuasca Globalization

Four Chacruna Institute members sit down to address eight frequently asked questions about the globalization...
ecology psychedelics

Why Land and Ecology Matter for Global Psychedelics

Land and ecology matter to the global psychedelics movement because it is a movement born...
Chacruna welcomes submissions to their Global History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines series.

Call for Submissions – Global History of Psychedelics

Chacruna invites submissions to our Global History of Psychedelics series. The ongoing series highlights the...
This is how jurema, a DMT-containing tree, helped the Pankararé people recover their land in Brazil

This is How Jurema, a DMT-Containing Tree, Helped the Pankararé People Recover Their Land in Brazil

The Amaro Science Festival (Festa da Ciência do Amaro), open to the general public since...
nectar of the blue goddess: consuming soma in west bengal india

Nectar of the Blue Goddess: Consuming Soma in Bengal, India

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars...
LSD can be connected to the history of ergot

Psychotropic Drugs from and in the Fields. Rural Roots and Collective Effects of LSD

Ergot is a parasitic fungus that grows on rye and serves as the raw material...
From Bwiti to Ibogaine and back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe iboga

From Bwiti to Ibogaine and Back: A Transnational History of Tabernanthe iboga

Julien Bonhomme explores how Euro-American psychedelic communities have appropriated Bwiti ibogaine rituals, creating a liminal...
Powick Psychiatric Hospital was at the center of lsd-assisted therapy discourse for a brief time.

Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map

Between 1952 and 1964, the UK's Powick Psychiatric Hospital served as a center of LSD-assisted...
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