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…

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

John Charles Ryan Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White’s Microcosms is a dynamic, multifaceted resource that I include in my teaching of interdisciplinary plant studies. Since the release of the project, I’ve been thrilled to incorporate Microcosms into my pedagogy at the intersection of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, plant humanities, and digital humanities. This portal…

Joela Jacobs The mesmerizing images of plant minutiae reproduced on the Microcosms website invite us to see the world at a different scale. A microscopic image of pollen grains, for instance, renders what we would usually perceive as a layer of fine dust into an artwork that seems to be teeming with strange, beautiful objects. Focusing in…

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…

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…