Elizabeth M. Nielson, PhD and Jeffrey Guss, MD Self-experimentation with psychedelic compounds by researchers and therapists played an important and largely undocumented role in the psychedelic […]

Chacruna We offer here a selection of 21 of the most interesting references in biomedicine, psychology, and health pertaining to ayahuasca. No doubt that we have […]

Mike Jay This photograph is one of hundreds in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution that record people of the Plains tribes in their forced captivity […]

Carlos Suárez Álvarez, M.A. I am presenting here several excerpts from A Cash Crop, my last multimedia book, that shows how Banisteriopsis caapi, once an abundant and commercially […]

NiCole T. Buchanan, Ph.D. Despite a commitment to creating a more just society,1 many psychedelic science organizations do not pay speakers and trainers for their services. I […]

Elizabeth Arnold, Ph.D. A colleague and friend referred a shaman to my private practice. We did brief and very focused work in one area of distress. […]

Bob Otis Stanley, MA Div What are ethical, sustainable relationships to entheogenic plants? How can humankind grow access to sacred plant-based healing and insight without risking […]

Amy Jones, Ed.M, LCSW A crocodile, a pioneering rock band, and a Ryan Gosling film? As a psychotherapist working in New York City with patients who […]

Brad Bartlett, Esq. There are hundreds of groups using ayahuasca in ceremonial underground contexts in the United States. They all dream of future legalization and the […]

Clancy Cavnar In the contemporary psychedelic sciences, what is the purpose of singling out certain groups for research, treatment, or conferences? Are gay people, women, and […]

Adam Knowles On Sunday, June 23, I attended the first “Ayahuasca Symposium” in London, UK, on behalf of Chacruna, a partner to the event. The event, […]

Gabriel Amezcua There is no doubt that the growing interest in the use of psychedelic substances has triggered a wave of increasingly critical attitudes toward the […]

Lynne Nardizz Eight years ago, I was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease.  Two years ago, I went to the Amazon jungle in Peru for shamanic […]

Shelby Hartman Dee Adams knew she was going to participate as facilitator of ayahuasca retreats one day. She’d heard the message, years ago, in a ceremony. Ayahuasca, […]