Bia Labate & Sandra Goulart This book tackles original ethnographies about various types of use of psychoactive plants, including ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, jurema, coca, tobacco, toé, […]

Charlotte Walsh First, I think it’s important to be clear about what we want to avoid, and why. It’s crucial to remember that what change looks […]

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 missed […]

Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D. As ayahuasca drinking emerges as a global phenomenon beyond the Amazon, one of the more curious claims about the brew that one regularly […]

The Peyote Files is a documentary web series following the anthropologist Dr. Bia Labate in the search for the elusive peyote cactus in West Texas. Built around […]

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 […]