Evolution of Psychedelics

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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Indigenous Cultures and the Psychedelic Movement

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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