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

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…

Paloma Celis Carbajal Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas is an excellent example of how the harmonious and reciprocally respectful confluence of the exact sciences and the humanities opens an infinite number of new perspectives to better understand the secret life of plants.  The marriage between the beautiful images patiently obtained through…

Rob Kesseler Meaningful Microcosms In her essay Picturing Ambiguity, the art historian Barbara Maria Stafford writes, “Magnification drives to the centre of a major aesthetic problem faced by all natural history description. What do you do with beings that are neither one thing nor the other?“1 Well, what you do is spend a lifetime exploring…

Juan R. Duchesne-Winter The most portentous aspect of this dazzling project by Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber is their gesture of homage to sacred plants. With precise and rigorous prose, and sublime high-definition images, they sing the praises of these plants, thanking from their hearts the spiritual owners who care for them and the…