Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her people, questioning our very relationship to the Earth and the quest for healing
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 moreAncient History of Psychedelics
After more than 10,000 years of use, the ancient cultures and indigenous communities who use plant medicines may hold lessons for today's psychedelic experience.
Read moreWestern Medicine, Indigenous Ways
This interview discusses incorporating Western medicine and Indigenous ways of knowing into the psychedelics world.
Read moreIndigenous Cultures and the Psychedelic Movement
The connection between the psychedelic movement and Indigenous medicine is complex and multifaceted.
Indigenous-led Medicine conservation is biocultural conservation.
It is NOT an effort to simply preserve these medicines (and supply chains) – or their constituent molecules and/or specific habitat – but the entire ecological, social and cultural milieus within which they exist, and from which they cannot be separated without compromising the system as a whole.
Read moreArctic Shamanism
Here’s a look at Arctic shamanism, and journeying into psychedelic realms.
Read moreThe Importance of Indigenous Voices
Some indigenous leaders spoke out at the Psychedelic Science 2023 Conference.
And at the same conference, an anthropologist questioned why indigenous voices get excluded in the psychedelic sector.
Read more10 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 moreIndigenous Protestors Stop a Psychedelic Conference
An Indigenous Ayahuasquero Discusses the MAPS Conference
As I’ve been sharing on this blog, the “psychedelic renaissance” is having growing pains.
Here an indigenous Ayahuasquero discusses their concerns.
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