A crocodile, a pioneering rock band, and a Ryan Gosling film? As a psychotherapist working in New York City with patients who use ayahuasca, I am regularly...

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,...

In recent years, there’s been a growing conversation in the psychedelic community about how to make psychedelic spaces more inclusive. Last year, the Multidisciplinary Association...

One of the first obstacles we face in attempting to address sexual abuse in the ayahuasca community is the quite widespread disbelief that sexual...

As a teenager, the power of my sacred feminine energy was taken from me by many men. As a teenager, the power of my sacred...

Heroin needle marks on my neck, benzodiazepines with alcohol in the mornings, and frequent crack-cocaine binges; that was my life for well over 20 years. I...

Like many women, I was coerced into sexual acts by an ayahuasca “healer” through a carefully constructed series of manipulations and “spiritual” justifications. I didn’t...

Introduction It’s never easy for people belonging to minority groups to express their identity and have the freedom to live accordingly. Often, majority groups feel...

Most journeys start with one step, but the beginning of my transgender journey began with an emphatic, “No!” In the dark finale of an ayahuasca ceremony, I...

by Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Isabel Santana de Rose and Rafael Guimarães dos Santos (eds.) Year: 2009 Publisher: MAPS More info on the books page Language: .