@leontessar.bsky.socialIn the Atacama Desert, researchers found traces from the Amazonian vine in the hair of people who lived there long ago, where the vine doesn't grow. Episode 02: what prehistory can prove.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7yt6nhIOiBauHxFdoc52J8
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@leontessar.bsky.socialMyth or medicine: is visionary plant use a universal human birthright? Episode 01 checks the record. Mostly the Americas, only some societies. Verdict: myth, mostly.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Rw4rUiuMloMp4IqeprQpL
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@leontessar.bsky.socialAn international convention in 1971 effectively froze legitimate research for a generation. Ceremony went on where it had always lived. The thaw began in the 1990s. Nutt, King and Nichols traced the cost of that freeze for neuroscience in 2013.
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@leontessar.bsky.socialThe word most people use for this field was coined in 1957 by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond, writing to Aldous Huxley: Greek psyche, mind, and deloun, to make visible. Their letters appeared in 2018 as Psychedelic Prophets, a primary source.
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@leontessar.bsky.socialPicture one long road: a healer's fire at one end, a hospital research room at the other. Episode 01 of Tribal to Therapy maps it, from Basel 1943 to the 1971 lockdown.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Rw4rUiuMloMp4IqeprQpL
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@leontessar.bsky.socialAncient wisdom. Modern science. Honest about risk. That is Tribal to Therapy, my podcast on psychedelics from Indigenous ceremony to clinical trials. The trailer and full season are streaming.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2GraH8CXpwCWkJq3In2zVx
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@leontessar.bsky.socialTwo roads lead into this field, and each keeps its own records. Science keeps trials, sample sizes and peer review. Healing traditions keep songs, teachers and a community's memory. I was told to choose. I read both and say which one I cite.
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