Sacred medicines may help to heal the planet, but society’s woes run deeper
Science has proved that psychedelics, like ayahuasca, can increase the production of new neurons. But reducing the benefits of these ritual medicines to ‘cellular plasticity’ is a dangerous gateway to their appropriation by the market
Sacred medicines may help to heal the planet, but society’s woes run deeper
Science has proved that psychedelics, like ayahuasca, can increase the production of new neurons. But reducing the benefits of these ritual medicines to ‘cellular plasticity’ is a dangerous gateway to their appropriation by the market
Drugs and the bane of the military
Who gains from the war on drug trafficking if crime and death only grow, terrorizing the poor, corrupting the State, and holding society hostage?
The cactus, the fig tree and the sumaúma
If one day we decide to close the open veins of Latin America and free ourselves from exploitation by all kinds of gringos, we will do so by affirming our Afro-Indigenous roots, which always make life more verdant
Letter to our developmentalist friends
In his first column, neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro argues that no amount of money can justify oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon, which accelerates instability. Why, he asks, are we degrading and destroying live organic matter to extract dead organic matter?
