June 16, 2025
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, María Del Carmen Macuil García
1 citation
This chapter examines the use of psilocybin mushrooms (known as teonanacatl or “the flesh of gods”) and Mexican tarragon (yauhtli, Tagetes lucida) for therapeutic purposes in Nahua medicine. These entheogenic substances are associated with thunderbolt and rain deities, part of a symbolic complex known as “the healing of the thunderbolt,” reflecting the influence of Tlaloc, the god of rain and...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
February 29, 2024
Nicholas Spiers, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Anna O. Ermakova et al.
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Journal of Psychedelic Studies
February 19, 2024
Nicholas Spiers, Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Anna O. Ermakova et al.
27 citations
Abstract This annotated bibliography comprises 49 texts concerning psilocybin mushroom practices developed by Indigenous peoples. The books and articles have been selected for their academic rigor, relevance, and historical significance, and to foreground overlooked research and subject matter. This includes research on a plurality of contemporary practices and evidence of historical uses, from...
Ciencias Sociales y Religión
December 19, 2023
L. Serrano, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Leticia Romero-Bautista
1 citation
En las últimas dos décadas se han realizado diversas investigaciones para dilucidar los efectos terapéuticos de la psilocibina en el cuerpo y la mente de los seres humanos. Uno de los propósitos de este artículo es mostrar que no existe una oposición excluyente entre ciencia y espiritualidad. Para ello es importante reflexionar de manera crítica sobre los marcos conceptuales utilizados...
Cultura y Droga
October 19, 2023
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero
Esta investigación ha examinado la evidencia histórica y arqueológica sobre los usos rituales de los hongos sagrados en Mesoamérica, específicamente en las antiguas culturas maya, mixteca y mexica, con base en el análisis de fuentes primarias como: códices, esculturas y manuscritos coloniales para lograr un mejor entendimiento de la cosmovisión de los pueblos originarios. Se trata de un estudio...
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
September 27, 2022
Christine Hauskeller, Taline Artinian, Amelia Fiske et al.
26 citations
Indigenous psychedelic uses have long been imbricated with colonialism and its afterlives. Amidst tensions from accelerating investor interest in psychedelics and calls to decolonize research and practices, we argue that the study of psychedelics is troubled by dualisms used in both colonial and decolonial thought: subject and object, self and other, culture and nature, synthetic and natural,...
Anthropology of Consciousness
July 30, 2022
Keith Williams, Osiris Sinuhé González Romero, Michelle Braunstein et al.
68 citations
Abstract The Western world is experiencing a resurgence of interest in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, most of which are derived from plants or fungi with a history of Indigenous ceremonial use. Recent research has revealed that psychedelic compounds have the potential to address treatment‐resistant depression and anxiety, as well as post‐traumatic stress disorder and addictions....