How much of what we think we know about the effects of psychedelics originates from their actual effects, and how much is the product...

The oceanlike immensity of joyArising when all beings will be freed.Will this not be enough? Will this not satisfy?The wish for my own freedom,...

It makes a difference, indeed, whether we report to the public that we are investigating a hallucinogenic drug that was spread relatively recently through...

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...

The Path of Day Henchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru's Manu National Park, left home one morning to go...

The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me reflect back...

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals, or shamanic chanting. But one very important health strategy...

Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the Upper Rio Negro in northwest Brazil, reflects on the global coronavirus...

To put it up front, this essay is not about relativization. I am sitting in my flat, trying to make ends meet between supervising...

While such drastic measures of social distancing are novel and challenging in our hyper-connected contemporary world, indigenous peoples have long used the strategy of...