Mary Olivar To the Shipibo Conibo people of the Ucayali River Basin in Peru, each plant carries a special vibrational signature which can be heard, seen, and felt. The sacred plant songs and designs embody the vibrations of these plant allies and are a foundational part of Shipibo healing traditions. The new visual perspective that Microcosms offers echoes the visual representation of…

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Richard Kay Microcosms works with layers of light. This is also how we at The Sentinel, through our plant-based medicine retreats, understand the process of the ever-expanding birth of consciousness. We may ask who is leading who in the symbiotic relationship between Plant-Teachers and humans with our pressing need to know ourselves. Like the waves…

Juan Carlos Skewes Vodanovic In my anthropology courses, trees and plants take on a relevance that is unknown to most of my students. How can I bring them closer to the life of plants and, particularly, to the life of plants and humans with whom they interact? What does the Microcosm give me? The possibility…

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…

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…