Can plants have consciousness? The film Silent Friend reimagines the science.
The filmmaker behind the newly released movie Silent Friend shares the scientific and historical inspiration for its story of botanical consciousness.
Read moreVideo: Indigeneity, Healing, & Care: Expanding Perspectives
The 2025 conference brought together interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersection of psychedelics and spirituality. Following last year’s popular Psychedelic Intersections: Cross Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred conference, the conference featured three research tracks: Psychedelic Chaplaincy, Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions, and Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Transcendent.
Read moreVideo: Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions in the Americas
The 2025 conference brought together interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to discuss the intersection of psychedelics and spirituality. Following last year’s popular Psychedelic Intersections: Cross Cultural Manifestations of the Sacred conference, the conference featured three research tracks: Psychedelic Chaplaincy, Indigenous Plant Medicine Traditions, and Psychedelic Aesthetics and the Transcendent.
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 moreProper Relationship With Plant Medicines
From the article on indigenous cultures and relationships with the plants: A lot of people today are tripping balls once a week, because they aren’t in right relation and are stuck in an ecstatic loop of entropy. They have no tether to a place, no kin, and no purpose for the work, so no work is delegated to them.
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 moreBooklist for Plant Medicine and Shamanism
Interested in reading more about shamanism and plant medicine? Check out this booklist of the 40 best books, from Chacruna.net.
Read moreHuichol Plant Medicine Traditions
This interview with the Huichol tribe discusses their plant medicine traditions, particularly as they relate to the peyote cactus, which is central to their identity.
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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