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People of color have been critical in advancing psychedelic healing in science, policy, and the community yet they are often relegated to behind the...
Beatriz Caiuby Labate & Sandra Lucia Goulart (eds.)
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Abstract:
This book tackles original ethnographies about various types of use of
psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, jurema, coca,
tobacco,...
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...
Considering the clinical outcomes of researchers’ and
clinicians’ personal relationships with psychedelic compounds
Self-experimentation with psychedelic compounds by researchers
and therapists played an important and largely...
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...
There are hundreds of groups using ayahuasca in ceremonial underground contexts in the United States. They all dream of future legalization and the ability...
Introduction
On Sunday, June 23, I attended the first “Ayahuasca Symposium” in London, UK, on behalf of Chacruna, a partner to the event. The event,...