Microcosms is a digital space of mesmerizingly beautiful images of plants — plants that beckoned the researchers and invite us, too, to consider the worlds these plants hold, the histories they shaped, and what our entangled futures may be.
Laura Barbas Rhoden, Professor of Spanish, Wofford College and Immediate Past President (2022), Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
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…
Ben Kamm Confocal microscopy is a tool for botanical exploration the way the Hubble Space Telescope, or more recent JWST, is to astronomy. These “stunning revelations of hidden beauty” elate and vitalize us with “exclamations of rapture”. This is frontier work, our first static glimpse at phytogenic interiority–an eerily familiar and yet utterly alien facet…
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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…
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…
Markus Berger Psychoactive plants and their ingredients, or the plants in their holistic manifestation of the one consciousness that we all are, sometimes serve as microscopes to look deep into our inner realities. Steven F. White and Jill Pflugheber’s work Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas, which combines art and science in…
