Papadakis Book
Papadakis Publisher, 2025
This newly published volume brings together anthropology, art, and plant science through breathtaking confocal microscope images by Jill Pflugheber and essays by Steven F. White.
Microcosms reveals the inner worlds of over fifty sacred plants and fungi of the Americas-species revered by Indigenous communities for their healing, visionary, and spiritual significance.
The book continues the mission of this site: to honor sacred plants and magnify the unseen connections between humans and the living world.
Learn more: Papadakis Publishers
Photography: Vessives.com
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Review of Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas
The Beckley Foundation
October 28, 2025
Microcosms – Sacred Plants of the Americas by Jill Pflugheber & Steven F. White, published by Papadakis Publisher.
“This is a wonder of a book, weaving science, art, history, and culture into something new and remarkable. The carousel features an excerpt from the introduction alongside the book’s mesmerising images.
Statement from co-author Steven F. White:
“I hope that this book becomes a platform for new aesthetic experiences through technology, a site of resistance to humanity’s predominant utilitarian interest in plants, a means of denouncing the abuses that are producing a mass extinction of plant species, and a call to urgent, empathic, morally-based activism as conservators, creators, and informed citizens against the political and economic systems that are so irrevocably harmful to the environment.”
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