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🌹The rose has occupied our poems, paintings, gardens, ceremonies, myths, and collective imagination. Its influence extends far beyond the physical plant itself.

In The Mind of Plants, Joela Jacobs’ describes this phenomenon as phytopoetics: the ability of plants to shape the human imagination so deeply that they participate in the making of culture and society.

📖 Explore The Mind of Plants as it brings together writers, poets, scholars, artists, and plant thinkers to explore the many diverse plants around the world and the ways they shape our lives, cultures, imaginations, and relationships with the more-than-human world.

One of the voices you’ll hear at the World Ayahuasca Forum 2026 is Dennis McKenna! 🌿

For many decades, Dennis McKenna has been part of the evolving conversation around psychoactive plants, ethnobotany, consciousness, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

His work is deeply connected to the history of the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (ESPD), which is a tradition of bringing researchers, ethnobotanists, practitioners, and knowledge holders together to explore the many dimensions of psychoactive plants.

Our latest volume, Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. III: 55 Years of Research, celebrates that legacy and the generations of inquiry it has inspired.

Now, that conversation continues at the World Ayahuasca Forum 2026, where Dennis joins a gathering bringing together diverse voices from science, Indigenous knowledge, culture, ecology, and the ayahuasca community.

We’re proud to see one of the longstanding voices in this field continuing the conversation.

🌿 See Dennis McKenna at the World Ayahuasca Forum 2026.

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With the floods and droughts happening around the world, this is now a necessary read to learn to speak the language of water; the element that makes all life possible and to restore balance.

In the Language of Water, Minni Jain and Philip Franses examine how floods and droughts emerge from an imbalanced water cycle, inviting readers to rediscover water as the living language that connects climate, landscapes, and communities. Their work offers a hopeful vision for restoring ecological balance by learning to work with water rather than against it.

Wisdom is carried.

From generation to generation, through stories, ceremonies, relationships, and ways of living that hold the memory of those who came before.

On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we honor the elders, knowledge keepers, storytellers, and communities who continue to carry Indigenous ways of knowing forward.

In Grandmothers’ Wisdom, Indigenous grandmothers share teachings shaped by generations of lived experience and relationship with the Earth. In The Bear Is My Father, Marcellus Bear Heart shares his journey as a Muscogee Creek medicine man and caretaker of Sacred Ways, preserving teachings entrusted to him while passing them onward.

These books remind us that wisdom is something lived, tended, practiced, protected, and carried forward.

Today, we honor the Indigenous peoples around the world keeping these ways alive, for the generations here now and those still to come.

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🌿 In The Mind of Plants, Luis Eduardo Luna reflects on the ways sacred plants can deepen our perception of reality, opening us to mystery, while cultivating greater sensitivity, care, compassion, and gratitude toward the natural world.

Perhaps this is part of what these plants ask of us: not simply to experience differently, but to relate differently.

This September, the World Ayahuasca Forum will bring together Indigenous leaders, researchers, practitioners, and thinkers from around the world to listen, exchange knowledge, and explore the many dimensions of ayahuasca in our changing world.

Swipe to read from The Mind of Plants and meet some of the voices from The Mind of Plants carrying this conversation forward.

World Ayahuasca Forum is coming up next month! ✨

The conversation around Ayahuasca continues to evolve, and it does so through community, dialogue, and the willingness to learn from one another. A few of our authors including Dennis McKenna, Monica Gagliano & Luis Eduardo Luna will be speaking at the forum. Browse their books, connect in person, and discover the decades of research, experience, and insight that have shaped their work..

Get your tickets to join the forum happening from September 11-13 in Girona, Spain at www.ayahuasca2026.com!

5 Must-Reads to Rewild Your Mind this Summer 🌿📚🌻

Whether you’re wandering through forests, tending a garden, sitting by the water, or simply slowing down, these books offer a chance to see the living world with fresh eyes. Explore the intelligence of plants, deepen your relationship with water, discover regenerative ways of living, and journey into the rich history and future of ethnobotanical knowledge.

This season, let your reading be as transformative as your adventures.

🌱 The Language of Water
🌿 The Mind of Plants
🌎 The Regenerative Landscaper
🍄 Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. III
✨ The Nature of Drugs

Which one are you adding to your summer reading list?