Life’s Afterparty: Visions of a New Death
What kind of wonders exist in the great beyond? With Ayahuasca as my guide, here’s a trip to the other side.
read moreMainstreaming Psychedelics
Recently, Sam Haselby asked “Do you think taking psychedelics will ever become a completely mainstream experience?” Here’s my reply.
read moreHow I Met Terence McKenna
Riding the on the wild trail of jungle music, as the millennium turned, and things got stranger, I ran into the bard…
read moreGrowing Tobacco, Making Mapacho
Tobacco is a tremendous force, one of my closest friends and I love it. Since I’ve found no written resources for making mapacho — the powerful black tobacco of the Amazon — I’ve documented my own process here.
read moreFollow Us Further, Deeper, Into The Magic Forest
The quizzical mystical hysterical miracle spirit filled destination — one of many graduations from slow damnation — somehow, someway, someday; buy the ticket, change the station.
It’s not where we’re from, but it’s where we’re going.
read moreThe Amphibian – Foreword from Sapo In My Soul
If ayahuasca is swimming in the rivers, lakes, dreams and streams of contemporary cultural, then the frog is perched on a branch overhanging the water’s edge. Waiting and watching, its tadpoles dropping from a jelly-leaf-nest, into the current below, into our bloodstream. And it’s come on rapidly.
read moreInviting the Spirits of Animals Inside You
In myriad ways, the topic of foods of plants and animals comes up like wind and rain and snow. By turns serious, furious, curious, and delirious. For me at least, since branded “plant-person” — there’s a specific story I’d like to tell.
read moreUña de Gato, Powerful Plant
Uña de Gato, Uncaria tomentosa, or Cat’s Claw is among the most amazing and powerful plants on this planet. Since I first encountered this jungle vine several years ago, it has remained by my side as one of my most trusted and respected guides on the path of health, clarity, energy and immunity.
read moreSapo In My Soul: The Matsés Frog Medicine — By Peter Gorman, Foreword by Morgan Maher
