Without directly imitating or in any other way co-opting the principles and practices of the NAC, its ways may be able to serve as role models for the renaissance of effective ceremonial practices that will play an essential role in the birthing of the “Future Human” and the regeneration of sane and sustainable societies. The container created is

Given the escalating severity of the destabilization of our climate, the twenty-first century will see a cascading spiral of crises: melting ice caps, unstoppable coastal flooding, record-breaking hurricanes and severe weather events, possible interruption of the oceanic conveyor belt, devastating forest fires and longer fire seasons, severe

Iboga (Tabernanthe iboga) is an unassuming perennial shrub native to equatorial West Africa. While it has only become known in the West in the past few decades, it has an ancient history in West Africa, particularly in Gabon, Cameroon, Angola, and the Republic of Congo. Traditional use of iboga is perhaps most associated with Bwiti, an animist,

Mystics, explorers of deep psychonautic realms, intuitives, the long-held prophecies of multiple Indigenous/traditional tribes and societies around the planet, and the clearly evident and observable developments of increasingly rapid climate change, madcap materialism, and gross economic and social inequality and imbalance all point to an

As Cowan and many others have said, what makes something medicine is one’s relationship with it, with the spirit of it you might say.

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

Lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD-25, was the twenty-fifth in a series of ergot derivatives synthesized in 1938 by Dr. Albert Hofmann, a Swiss chemist working for Sandoz laboratories.

This is a time of reawakening to ourselves, and a time of the reemergence of the ancient wisdoms of Indigenous peoples across the globe.

Thousands of years of patriarchy (a euphemism for male supremacy) have warped the way we evolved as a species and brought us to where we are today: a narcissistic, invasive species on the fast track to global annihilation.