Because psychedelics can have profoundly positive effects on people, this has led to the narrative that they exist for our consumption.
Why else would certain plants and mushrooms have evolved compounds that foster better mental health, induce spiritual and transformative experiences, and lead to enhanced connection to others and nature?
However, there is evidence that suggests the opposite (more banal) reality: these compounds have functions that have nothing to do with us.
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The connection between the psychedelic movement and Indigenous medicine is complex and multifaceted.
Indigenous-led Medicine conservation is biocultural conservation.
It is NOT an effort to simply preserve these medicines (and supply chains) – or their constituent molecules and/or specific habitat – but the entire ecological, social and cultural milieus within which they exist, and from which they cannot be separated without compromising the system as a whole.
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‘Mother Trees’ are intelligent, they learn and remember. And ecologist Suzanne Simard says they need our help to survive.
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Author Paul Levy writes that we all have a superhero power that we need to tap into every night.
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Author and philosopher Peter Kingsley speaks eloquently on consciousness, living and dying.
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What does it meant to say that consciousness is evolving? This author explains his thoughts on that here.
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