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

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 drough

Gabor Maté says that we either experience love, or we experience what’s in the way of it.

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

“Peyote” (from the Nahuatl peyōtl) is the Spanish name for this small, spineless cactus whose primary psychoactive alkaloid is mescaline. Its natural habitat ranges from the Chihuahuan desert and mountain scrublands of northern Mexico into southwestern Texas in the United States. Researchers have found specimens carbon dated to roughly 3700 BCE (ne

Fundamental to healing is the concept of energy, and from energy is frequency.22 The ancient teachings, prayers, chants, rituals, and ceremonies performed by my ancestors and with traditional healers today are fundamental to creating healing at an energetic level.

The natural habitat of this psychoactive medicine is northern and western South America, and includes parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

“We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient, singing couple who just won’t give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won’t end if we can find them.”2

This session showed me that humanity’s transformation will come about through terrible suffering. This suffering will be driven by a global systems crisis triggered by a series of ecological crises. Our species will change when our collective pain simply becomes unbearable. In this, Session 55 echoes the conclusion reached by Duane Elgin in Awakeni

In the psychiatric world, we see addictions, obsessions, compulsions, and delusions all coming down to this issue of cognitive rigidity. Given their ability to loosen cognitive strictures, this is where psychedelics can really shine.