Polylepis spp. Microcosms is very pleased to include a contribution in this new section Polylepis by Ben Kamm, founder of Sacred Succulents (https://sacredsucculents.com/), a business that lovingly and knowledgably purveys rare and endangered plants and seeds from the Americas, with a specialty in the Andean countries, which Ben has explored extensively and found much to…
Neltuma spp. Using a term that is part of his Rarámuri (Tarahumara) heritage, Enrique Salmón explains the importance of iwígara in the introduction to Iwígara, the Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science: “In a worldview based on iwígara, humans are no more important to the natural world than any other form of life….
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Lesley Wylie The Microcosms website is a fascinating, thought-provoking repository of knowledge about sacred plants. I’ve recently explored the website with students as part of an undergraduate module which includes a class on the globalization of ayahuasca. Steven F. White’s illuminating introductory essay grounded our discussions about vegetal life and Indigenous plant knowledge and the…
Michael Winkelman Microcosms is a wealth of information for entheogenic exploration. Much more than “eye candy”. Dr. Michael Winkelman, co-editor Advances in Psychedelic Medicine
Jonathon Miller Weisberger Microcosms, a glimpse into the confounding reality of worlds within worlds within worlds. As the universe extends itself inwards to realms of unknowingness, and simultaneously outwards, beyond the realms of reason. We struggle to reach for an understanding of just where is the unity between the quantum and relative realities? We begin…
Keith Williams Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas “How you say is what you mean.” – Jan Zwicky Born of a dream, Microcosmic Phytoformalism in both form and content follows a kind of dream-logic exemplified by strange yet somehow familiar shapes against a backdrop of black. Dreams, like the psychedelic experience, can be epistemological…
Constantino Manuel Torres Browsing Jill and Steven’s spectacular website Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas, we are constantly reminded of two artists: the first is the Mazatec shaman-poet María Sabina (1894-1985), who chants: “I am the woman who looks into the insides of things.” Steven and Jill, through the resources provided by…
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau When we discovered the Microcosms website, we were in awe of the beauty of the microscopic plant images produced by confocal microscopy. The level of fine details and the complexity of the plants´ inner structures reveal a hidden universe that changes one’s perception of plants. Learning that the biological samples…
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