Category: Culture

Researchers Demand Reparations to Mazatecs for Mushroom “Spirit”

There is an emerging multi-billon dollar market for psychedelic therapies as the research becomes more...

Supporting Indigenous Autonomy Means Participating in a Story of Relationship

The Yanesha of Peru, along with other Amazonian groups, engage with cultural tourism in response...

Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca

This text was originally a conference paper in Spanish as well as an attempt to...

Ayahuasca, Healing and Cognitive Justice

In the first part of this series on the Epistemics of Ayahuasca, Medical Anthropologist Adam...

Coronavirus and Evolving Ceremonial Practice Among Ayahuasca Practitioners in the US

Jasmine Virdi explores how ayahuasca facilitators have adapted and changed their practices and ceremonial protocols...

How Did Ayahuasca, Indigenous Diversity and Conservation Become Commodities in the Amazon?

In this article, anthropologist Alhena Caicedo analyzes how the moral imperative of celebrating cultural diversity...

Coronavirus, Ayahuasca, and Indigenous Resilience

Jasmine Virdi explores how coronavirus has impacted the ayahuasca drinking indigenous groups of the Amazon...

Growing Up with Sacred Plants

Diana Negrín, Ph.D, reflects on growing up in Guadalajara and listening in to her father,...

COVID and the Future of Ayahuasca in Brazil

The burgeoning expansion of ayahuasca around the globe has allowed for the evolution of an...

A Nurse’s Call for Keeping the Human in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Imagine a dystopian future where the United States is in its fourth year of the...
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