2500-year-old hallucinogenic rituals may have allowed Chavín de Huántar elites in Peru to gain prestige and influence.
Read morePsychedelics and Spirituality
The Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) is at the forefront of this resurgence as the medical, recreational, and spiritual use of psychedelic drugs, plants, and fungi weaves into Western mainstream culture after decades of criminalization in the United States and beyond.
As part of the Harvard Study of Psychedelics in Society and Culture, the CSWR is working to advance understanding and innovation of the psychedelics landscape through scholarship, programming, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities.
Read morePlant Consciousness
10 Tips for Supporting Indigenous People and the Plants
Here’s a great article with ten tips for standing in solidarity with indigenous people and plant medicines.
Read moreAn Interview with an Ethnopharmacologist
Keep reading for five questions with ethnopharmacologist Matteo Politi.
Read moreThe Importance of Indigenous Knowledge
This can’t be emphasized enough: Various indigenous cultures found, used, and promoted plant-based psychedelics for human wellness and spiritual development for thousands of years, in almost every place where humans lived on the planet.
Read moreWhen Science Meets Consciousness
In the new book Thus Spoke the Plant, by evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, she suggests plants might possess intelligence, memory and learning, although the mechanisms at play may be fundamentally different from those of humans and animals.
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