Since a young age, Wilma Mahua Campos has been dedicated to learning about her Shipibo culture's medicine, including the use of ayahuasca.

Through an understanding of significant histories, social justice issues, and ideas presented by psychedelic thought leaders such as Aldous Huxley and Humphrey Osmond, this anthology focuses on the potentials of psychedelics in providing insight to individuals and the collective whole so that we may make an attempt at a social justice revolution and work through inequalities more thoroughly.

What do our current movements lack that the psychedelic movement of the 1960s and '70s had? Kathleen Harrison says its hope.

NiCole T. Buchanan uses the new Chacruna anthology, Psychedelic Justice: Creating a Socially Just Psychedelic Renaissance, edited by Beatriz C. Labate and Clancy Cavnar, to reflect upon the nuance and meaning of the term “psychedelic justice.” For Buchan-nan, psychedelic justice is of increasing importance as we see psychedelics gain wide-spread acceptance and recognition for their radical healing potentials in that with social justice in mind we have the ability to address intersectionality, and dismantle multi-generational paradigms of op-pression.

On the 500th year commemoration of the fall of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, this article recounts the destruction of the Aztec empire. This history is often overlooked when discussing the use of sacred plants today. We reflect on these roots as a way to understand how cycles of colonization have affected indigenous peoples and their traditions.

After playing a key part in breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, Rosemary Woodruff Leary would have to fight for her own freedom while living underground.

On the surface it appears that Rosemary Woodruff Leary led a charmed and exciting life, but reality is more complicated than that.

There is not a soul alive today who has not been infected by colonialism, and as people infected with the sickness of coloniality, we can reproduce colonial harm. Mestizos, descendents of Indigenous, African, and settler origins, have been weaponized by colonial hierarchies to further disenfranchise Indigenous and African-descended people. In our journeys toward healing from generational trauma as descendents of colonization, a decolonial praxis to disengage from colonial attitudes must include solidarity with and respect for Indigenous sovereignty.

Psycholytic therapy involves taking low doses of psychedelics repeatedly as a way to open the individual to the therapeutic process.

Sean Lawlor interviews Hanifa Nayo Washington, energy healer, Reiki practitioner, and co-founder of Fireside Project, the psychedelic peer support line, about cultivating beloved community, systems of oppression in the psychedelic space, Burning Man, building trust, reducing harm, and creating a culture of belonging.