On the road opened by the expansion of ayahuasca in urban centers, other native plants, substances, and knowledge of the Amazon rainforest came to circulate in...

Deep in the heart of South Texas, where peyote (Lophohora williamsii), the mind-expanding cactus sacrament grows, is a place known by many as the “Peyote Gardens.”...

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....

14 Questions the Global Ayahuasca Community Should Consider While Moving Forward As ayahuasca becomes increasingly popular across the world and is incorporated as a sacrament...

As ayahuasca drinking emerges as a global phenomenon beyond the Amazon, one of the more curious claims about the brew that one regularly comes across is...

This photograph is one of hundreds in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution that record people of the Plains tribes in their forced captivity on the...

I am presenting here several excerpts from A Cash Crop, my last multimedia book, that shows how Banisteriopsis caapi, once an abundant and commercially worthless plant...

What are ethical, sustainable relationships to entheogenic plants? How can humankind grow access to sacred plant-based healing and insight without risking or profaning the plants and their...

When I entered Brazil’s National Museum as a master’s student in social anthropology, I knew only that I wanted to specialize in the anthropology of art...

With the sun going down over the Sonoran Desert, Andrew led me down a dusty trail toward a narrow draw that opened onto...