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…

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau When we discovered the Microcosms website, we were in awe of the beauty of the microscopic plant images produced by confocal microscopy. The level of fine details and the complexity of the plants´ inner structures reveal a hidden universe that changes one’s perception of plants. Learning that the biological samples…

Jorge Riechmann In an interview in the magazine Cáñamo, when the Spanish poet Antonio Orihuela was asked why the left has often condemned the use of drugs as an alienating practice, he responded: “Perhaps due to the ideological puritanism from which class struggle has been approached since the 19th century. The working class, as opposed…

Keith Williams Microcosms: A Homage to Sacred Plants of the Americas “How you say is what you mean.” – Jan Zwicky Born of a dream, Microcosmic Phytoformalism in both form and content follows a kind of dream-logic exemplified by strange yet somehow familiar shapes against a backdrop of black. Dreams, like the psychedelic experience, can be epistemological…

Sharday Mosurinjohn What Do Psychedelic Plants and Fungi Want?: On the Microcosms Approach to Phytorelation The vital problem for which the Microcosms project has offered a salve is that for those who do not have a psychedelic practice or a practice of deep relationship with plants or fungi, there is no experiential framework to motivate heart-centred, phytorelational…

Juan Carlos Galeano The eyes of the plants   The ancestral desire to transform ourselves into other beings now allows us to feel the microscopic body of sacred plants. Jill Pflugheber and Steven F. White have listened to and presented the Amerindian wisdom of seeing with plant eyes. Where cold science has failed to understand nature,…