WorldviewsMay 7, 2026Annalisa Butticci, Osiris García Cerqueda
In Huautla de Jiménez, in the Mexican Sierra Mazateca, sacred mushrooms known as the Niños Santos (Holy Children) are openly sold in the psychedelic tourism market. Yet Mazatec healers lament that these sacred fungi are becoming increasingly difficult to find for healing ceremonies known as veladas . Faced with the extractive logics shaping global psychedelic circuits, the Niños Santos are said...
The Sakha national revival in Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia, aims to recover dying elements of Sakha culture, in order to preserve the Sakha people’s distinctive identity. And yet this revival is itself imbued with assumptions rooted in the European cultures that initiated modernist colonisation. Contemporary Sakha shamanism reflects the tensions within the nationalist revival, in the contrasting...