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

Jill Scott As an artist, I have not really worked with Native American plants but with microscopy, science, art and medical knowledge from Ethnobotany from Europe and Australia. Generally, I am fascinated about how people of a particular culture and region make use of their Indigenous native plants. How have these plants provided medicine and how are they harvested? How…

Blanka Amezkua It is a real gift to have found the Microcosms website that contains such valuable information with beautiful images that as a visual artist enrich me and offer me a singular and intense range to perceive the plant world. It is a truly unique approach. Since the appearance of Covid-19 in our lives,…

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…

Rina C. Faletti The website Microcosms, opened in 2022, presents the inaugural results of a plant-art project that exhibits a visually striking and intellectually stimulating image collection of living plants taken under a microscope. Electric colors and bold patterns captured through the method the authors call microcosmic phytoformalism, a specialized confocal laser scanning microscopy, reveal intricate structures…

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…