How Four Indigenous Cultures Currently Use Psychedelics

The Yanomami People use a psychedelic plant that you may never have heard of.

Evan Lewis-Healey

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Mexican folk art design, retrieved from pxfuel

Don’t let the industrialization of psychedelics fool you: The Western world certainly didn’t spearhead the use of psychoactive substances for healing. Many of the techniques utilized in modern psychedelic ceremonies are rooted in Indigenous…

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Evan Lewis-Healey

PhD candidate at Cambridge University. Studying the cognitive neuroscience of altered states of consciousness.