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…

Ilana Berlowitz Microcosms is a wonderful collection of exceptional plants. Browsing through the artful yet instructive contents and gazing at the otherworldly looking images of earthly plants, the observer’s experience indeed is an allusion to the gifts these plants have been offering or teaching humans since times immemorial – a sudden shift of perspective, an…

Don Lattin Psychoactive plants and fungi have long been tools to explore the mysteries of human consciousness. Now the visionary artists behind the Microcosms project have turned the tables on the plant kingdom, using high-tech tools to reveal the stunning beauty hidden deep inside sacred plant medicines. No hallucinogens required for this trip.  Don Lattin, author of The…

Dana Sawyer For vast millennia before the advent of science, we, as a species, connected to the natural world through art and music, much of it related to sacred plants, which is not to suggest that science can’t do the same.  Connection is what matters most and whatever gets us to that realization is what…

Mark Plotkin Just when you think that the only way to see these sacred plants in an entirely new way is to ingest them, along comes Microcosms which is guaranteed to offer a perspective you have never seen before in a unique marriage of biology, technology, art and entheogen! Mark Plotkin, Ethnobotanist, Co-Founder and President, The…

Milton Fernando González Rodríguez Microcosms  Microcosms is many things. It is a science-art project that allows us to visualize plants from the intimacy of their own morphologies. The images in this unique Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas show those structures that are hidden to the human naked eye. In the process, the platform…