Psychedelic Justice: Disrupting the Cultural Default Mode Network
People want accountability from the science and the funders around equal access and open science
The psychedelic science
movement is facing a crossroads. People want accountability...
Why the Psychedelic Community is so White
The War on Drugs is inherently anti-black. You can’t have a drug war without racism.
Most psychedelic users that I’ve encountered are hesitant to take a stance...
Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine
Spirituality and Yagé
Territory, culture, self-government, and spirituality: that’s what’s most important for us.
The curacas, our men of wisdom or traditional doctors—harmonize relations within the...
How Psychedelic Science Privileges Some, Neglects Others, and Limits Us All
Promises of psychedelic science include the opportunity to transform consciousness itself, to creatively generate new solutions to old problems, and to elicit deep healing...
My Degree Is From The Forest
I believe that the issue of Ayahuasca is, in essence, an issue of human rights: as humans of this earth I believe that we...
How My Elder’s Sacred Peyote is Disappearing
In my childhood home, the word “medicine” is how we referred to peyote (Lophophora williamsii). This medicine was stored in various forms, but mainly...