Magic mushrooms have been used ritually by the native people of Mesoamerica for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In the 1950s, R. Gordon Wasson and his wife traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico and participated in a mushroom ritual. That experience led to a 1957 Life magazine article titled “Seeking the Magic Mushroom.” The following […]
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American philosopher, psychonaut, ethnobotanist, lecturer, writer and author of several books… He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, culture, technology and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was also the creator of […]
art by Luke Brown by Damon Orion ON APRIL 23, 2015 Inside a brick house in Oaxaca, Mexico, a wizened indigenous woman stands at a candlelit altar adorned with images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Pope and the Santo Niño de Atocha. A small group of Westerners watch raptly as she prays in her […]
By Alberto Villoldo on Friday March 11th, 2016 The power to dream is the power to participate in creation itself We are what we think. Everything we are arises from our thoughts. With our thinking we create the world. – Buddha Whether you realize it or not, we are all dreaming the world into being. […]
Two years after the first World Ayahuasca Conference, held in Ibiza (Spain), we now take on the next challenge to bring together the international ayahuasca community in the spirit of the dialogue and exchange of knowledge and experience initiated in the first edition. About 9,000 km. of land and water is what separates Ibiza from Rio Branco, capital of Acre, in the […]
By Michael Forrester, Prevent Disease, Waking Times, December 17, 2015 Psychoactive plants and hallucinogens have given us the opportunity to see life through different perspectives for thousands of years. Many of these plants, which can only be defined as gifts from nature, have unfortunately been declared illegal in many parts of the world due […]
By James W. Jesso, Collective Evolution, November 29, 2015 Since 2010 I have been exploring what it means to cultivate a spiritual practice with psilocybin, otherwise known as “magic mushrooms.” I have since written two full-length books—Decomposing The Shadow (2013) and The True Light Of Darkness (2015)—and given several public presentations on the subject. […]
“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.” – Terence McKenna
Reconnecting with Nature Effective education must have a large experiential component, I said. Given the current critical imbalance between humans and other species, nature should be a primary area of experiential education. We should balance the abstractions of our classrooms with experiences of the wholeness of living, growing wild things. Following the centuries-old practice of […]
Cannabis is a Schedule I drug in the United States. That means the government has designated the plant as having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. No accepted medical use? There are scores of studies that say differently. Rick Simpson is a medical marijuana activist, and he has been on a […]
Let’s talk about microdosing. Taking sub-perceptual amounts of psychedelics (6-25 microgram LSD, 0.2-0.5 gram dried mushrooms, 50-75 microgram mescaline HCL), while maintaining your daily routine, playing sports, or performing any other activity, has been proven to increase mental capabilities as well as physical ones. Using psychedelics in this low-dose capacity, also referred to aspsycholytic […]
By Jack Adam Weber Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Shamans and Revolutionaries don’t preach to the choir, where confirmation bias is high. They go where they are unpopular, to reach those not far from the next step into sanity. But such sanity doesn’t feel like sanity at first. This is called a healing […]
Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew mostly composed of Banisteriopsis caapi vine and can be combined with various other plants. The natural ingredients to prepare this medicine can only be found in the deepest jungles of South America; the amazons rain forest. For hundreds of years, Indigenous tribes of South America have been using this ancient […]
Joseph S. Gallwitz, Contributor Waking Times A tree falls in the forest. If no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Many reductionist scientists, and most open-minded scientists, will say yes, due to the propagation of sound waves. Some quantum researcher may argue that it does not, as the […]
By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World The Catalysts for Change I remember a story once shared with me by a person who was a middle aged Russian man who had never had or even heard of psychedelic experiences or higher states of consciousness. He joined our conversation which I had with […]
1st June 2015 By Sergey Baranov Guest Writer for Wake Up World “To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.” ~ Humphry Osmond Psychedelic simply means ‘mind manifesting’ (mind = psyche, manifest = delos), a term first sculpted from the clay of words by doctor Hampry Osmand while preparing for the psychiatric conference in 1956. He […]
https://vimeo.com/25541996 According to the cosmology of the Amazonian Shipibo-Konibo people, the primordial anaconda Ronin, brought the Universe into existence by singing a song that was depicted in the patterns of her skin. This conveys an understanding that existence is essentially comprised of vibrations, encapsulating the connection between the energetic and material worlds and expressing […]
MAPS – Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies ICEERS – International Center for Ethnobotanical Education Research & Studies Entheogen’s & Existential Intelligence: The Use of “Plant Teachers” as Cognitive Tools Entheogen The term is derived from two words of ancient Greek, ἔνθεος (entheos) and γενέσθαι (genesthai). The adjective entheos translates to English as “full of […]
For over 3000 years the Blue Lotus was used by priesthood of ancient Egypt for its medicinal properties and as a spiritual sacrament. The Blue Lotus generally produces mild psychoactive effects that are purported to have a “divine” essence, which brings upon the feelings of tranquility and subtle euphoria. Nymphaea caerulea, also known as […]