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
Microcosms is a wealth of information for entheogenic exploration. Much more than “eye candy”.
Dr. Michael Winkelman, co-editor Advances in Psychedelic Medicine
Giovanni Aloi The history of science and western art are intimately entwined—a keen determination to visually assess similarities and differences pervades both. This approach has nurtured a deep archival tendency—a wish to order, catalog, and hierarchize that over the past five centuries has constructed a limited conception of what we call nature. What we see…
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…
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero Visionary Art, Ecodelícs and Microcosmic Phytoformalism. The use of sacred plants with psychoactive properties and the development of technology can extend our vision. Both facilitate an understanding of universes and realities not perceptible to the naked eye during our ordinary states of consciousness. The creative use of psychoactive plants and confocal…
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…
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…
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…