Medicinal Abortions in Mexican History: Botanical Knowledge Retained
You might assume that medicinal contraceptives are recent products of modern western science. In fact, Indigenous healers and midwives in the Americas used botanical...
Abortion, Plants, & Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge
Women's whisper networks have always played a major role in the spread of knowledge about plants and natural abortion methods.
Redwing Keyssar: Nurse, Midwife to the Dying, Ceremonialist
There is a reason we call it Mother Earth. Nature teaches us. It nurtures. It nourishes. It protects. All that is born, comes from...
A Historian’s Reflection on Music and Psychedelics
I will never forget the moment music transported me out of my own body.
I was eleven years old, performing the fourth movement of Handel’s...
How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy
Hermina Browne and Helen Bonny are two revolutionary figures in the history of using music in psychedelic therapy. As we navigate the current psychedelic renaissance we can learn a lot from their work.
“Please Write Up Your Work!”: Laura Archera Huxley as a Psychedelic...
Laura Archera Huxley, author of You Are Not the Target (1963), was a pioneer in postwar psychedelic science and second wife to Aldous Huxley. She was an active, ambitious, and controversial participant during psychedelics’ early years in the United States.
Another Aspect of Reality: Maria Nys Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic History
Maria Nys Huxley was an active participant in 20th century psychedelic culture. Though most of her work was behind the scenes, she contributed to the success of Aldous Huxley's career.
Kin Spruijt: A Psychedelic Nurse in a Dutch Psychiatric Clinic
Since at least the 1840s psychiatrists have administered psychedelics to treat their patients. From the 1950s onwards this happened with an increasing appreciation of...
The Cost of Omission: Dr. Valentina Wasson and Getting Our Stories...
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: ambitious, brave, and pioneering white man travels to Mexico in the 1950s and is invited to a...
Heroines of Mescaline
In 1905, several women (and one man), detained at a psychiatric institution in Breslau, now Poland, were administered extracts of the Peyote cactus intravenously....
