Category: Culture

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 Bengal, India

The question of what ingredients comprise the soma drink of Vedic myth has troubled scholars...

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

Julien Bonhomme explores how Euro-American psychedelic communities have appropriated Bwiti ibogaine rituals, creating a liminal...

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...

From Rubber Adulterant to Ceremonial Psychedelic: Voacanga africana in the Transnational Imagination, 1894–2018

Timothy Vilgiate looks at how the story of Voacanga africana is an example of how...

Early Experimental LSD Cultures in the Clinic

Magaly Tornay looks at early practices of meaning-making around LSD in the clinic, a crucial...

Mescaline, Between Psychopathology and Phenomenology: Sartre and Experimentation in 1930s France

Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous bad trip took place in February 1935, but is it accurate to...

Global History of Psychedelics: A Chacruna Series

Our new Chacruna series will highlight the global history of psychedelics. It will highlight some...

Conspirituality: The Hidden Face of the Psychedelic Revolution

Glauber Loures de Assis addresses the issue of conspirituality within the psychedelic renaissance and shows...
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