How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out

The overarching mission is this urgent need for widespread awakening and redirection.

WITHOUT A STORY or vision of a promising future, we are lost and will create a ruinous future for ourselves. For example, the “American Dream” that pulled the United States and a good portion of the world forward for generations has become the world’s nightmare as the excesses of consumerism produce climate disruption, species extinction, and enorm

Cannabis can be a potent psychedelic for journeying, a trusted ambassador in transcendent spaces, a versatile master plant that elevates, enlivens, and enlightens. Peyote (“the sacrament”) is alert, attentive, and immediate, surrounding me with twinkling, kaleidoscopic aha! messages and curious, exuberant life spirits that illuminate the way of hea

The idea of “reconnecting with nature” is a human-supremacist construct. We are nature. We are nothing but nature. We are embodied psyches living in vulnerable flesh-blood-and-bones vessels. We’re born, we live, we die, we decompose. We’re animals—wildlife indigenous to Earth. And like other wild species, without freedom we fall apart. We are able

MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine), also known as Ecstasy or Molly, isn’t per se a psychedelic or hallucinogen (a dubious term).*9 Common labels for MDMA are empathogen (generating empathy) and entactogen (to produce a touching within). Psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon, M.D., describes MDMA as “a gentle invitation to insight.” And while it is o

people have reported that ibogaine can temporarily knock out drug cravings for up to a few weeks. This is said to provide the addict with a precious window of opportunity to make lifesaving changes.

From my perspective as a Native American woman, I have always been taught from an early age by my parents, grandparents, and relatives to respect all beings. I have been taught that I am part of everything that exists—from the elements of air, fire, water, Mother Earth, and the ethers, the stones, and the stars in the heavens.17 This interconnected

When my heart hurts, communing with sacred medicines and meditating on the miracle of life leaves me renewed, refreshed, and inspired to keep up the fight.

A key component of the value of a much greater role for the mushrooms is their potential for a sea change in attitudes about medicine and health altogether. We may be in the early stages of a revolution of understanding regarding natural plants and fungi and our capacities for self-healing holistically—body, mind, and spirit together.