Antonio Orihuela The sacred plants remind us that we are spirit, community and nature; to recover these links, to intertwine these three realities, to realize that this is precisely what we are, in the midst of the social and ecological collapse is the only thing that can save us as a species. Even so, we…
Mary Olivar To the Shipibo Conibo people of the Ucayali River Basin in Peru, each plant carries a special vibrational signature which can be heard, seen, and felt. The sacred plant songs and designs embody the vibrations of these plant allies and are a foundational part of Shipibo healing traditions. The new visual perspective that Microcosms offers echoes the visual representation of…
Jeremy Narby Microcosms is beautiful work inviting us to open our eyes and look at plants from up close. Wisdom holds that plants speak through their forms, meaning to say their embodiment of being, and so Microcosms allows people to listen with their eyes and ponder what these plants might be up to. The world…
Sharday Mosurinjohn What Do Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Want?: On the Microcosms Approach to Phytorelation The vital problem for which the Microcosms project has offered a salve is that for those who do not have a psychedelic practice or a practice of deep relationship with plants or fungi, there is no experiential framework to motivate heart-centred, phytorelational…
Paul Moss The Microcosms site calls on those in the dominant culture to look at plants in a new and different way – as powerful and agentic beings filled with mystery and beauty, rather than as objects for human use. This is consistent with the goals of The Plant Initiative to increase respect for plants and to advocate on…
Gerardo Gonzalo Mier Stanislav Grof said that psychedelics, used with responsibility and caution, will be to psychiatry what the microscope has been to biology and medicine or the telescope to astronomy. Microcosms offers a space in which one can wander among the intersections between these disciplines and their repercussions from the microscopic contemplation of the…
Dennis McKenna Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas curated by Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber uses the tools of science, in this case confocal microscopy, to provide a unique perspective on the major psychoactive plants of the New World shamanic traditions. Just as these plants, through their unique pharmacology, open the vision…
Jorge Marcone The collection of microscopic images, or, more precisely, digital visualizations, shared by Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber in Microcosms is an initiation into the opportunities offered by the confocal microscope for the conservation of biocultural heritage. My students celebrate that these visualizations give us another way for the sacred plants to engrave…
Luis Eduardo Luna Microcosms Everything that exists harbors a depth not immediately perceptible, in turn part and fabric of a much larger inclusive reality. The tree is thus part forest, part shelter of an infinite number of surprising structures that, as in this case, are miraculously revealed through its own inner light. These prodigious images…
Neil Logan Are these the fingerprints of the gods? Peel back the waxy cuticle and peer into what underpins a sacred leaf. Human communion with these plants has resulted in profoundly life-affirming experiences. Simply viewing one of these works of art is a journey into alien worlds of unimaginable machinery. Each one uniquely structured to perform…
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