Synergetic Press

We have prepared a curated collection in honour of the World Ayahuasca Forum — if you haven’t had your chance to purchase the books that continue to inspire knowledge, wisdom, your journey and relationship with the sacred plants, visit our website now to explore the collection. We will have it up until the end of the month!

We have noticed we have had issues with international shipping which is now fixed, so if you have tried to order and couldn’t — you can place your orders now! We ship worldwide 🌎

We are also sharing and extending the exclusive 20% discount that goes towards any book from the collection here until September 30th! ✨

Visit the collection here: https://synergeticpress.com/collections/world-ayahuasca-forum

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The map became a book, Psychedelic Integration: Psychotherapy for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness published by Synergetic Press in 2022, translated by Adam Aronovich. This book is the first serious attempt to give integration a theory by showcasing metaphors of what it is, seven dimensions of it, and the clinical detachment to admit that a good ceremony needs a different kind of care than a bad one. Beneath the much needed emerging framework was a conviction present without the need of qualifications; that psychedelics can bring to mental health "a renewed and much-needed compassion and respect towards those who suffer".

✨ Read the full story here: https://synergeticpress.com/blogs/blog/four-ways-of-listening-to-a-vine-a-meeting-at-the-world-ayahuasca-forum

She saw plea plants forming Pavlovian associations, and found water in sound.¹⁰ Perception, memory, learning, and cognition in a brainless creature. And she has not been shy in her memoir about dreams and ceremonial encounters that have led to these experiments.

Together with John C. Ryan and Patricia Vieria, she co-edited the book The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (2021), which she presented as a keynote address at ESPD55. She is also part of the ESPD55 proceedings. The forum names her a “Pioneering Researcher in Plant Cognition,” not because we are ignoring what the maloka has been telling us all along, but because her language can communicate it in a way our laboratories cannot ignore.

Read the full story ‘Four Ways of Listening to the Vine’ here https://synergeticpress.com/blogs/blog/four-ways-of-listening-to-a-vine-a-meeting-at-the-world-ayahuasca-forum 🌿✨

Then he did what no scientist does with his origin story: he went back and finished the tale, bringing the rest of his inspiration to life. ESPD50 was released in 2017 as a two-volume box set at Tyringham Hall. Last year we released ESPD55 which took place at St. Giles House in Dorset in 2022. Over thirty papers, including Wade Davis and Paul Stamets and Merlin Sheldrake and Monica Gagliano. Not by discipline but by sphere. Ethnosphere. Phytosphere. Mycosphere. Faunasphere. Archeosphere. Sonosphere. A taxonomy that takes sound as a sphere. We also continue to publish his memoir, Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, and the foreword to the tenth anniversary edition is by Luis Eduardo Luna because this world is small and its friendships are ancient.

Read Four Ways of Listening to the Vine

Full story here https://synergeticpress.com/blogs/blog/four-ways-of-listening-to-a-vine-a-meeting-at-the-world-ayahuasca-forum 🌿✨

A Series of Connectors: The One Who Listened First

Before ayahuasca became known around the world, Luis Eduardo Luna was listening to the people who had carried this knowledge for generations.

From the Amazonian vegetalistas of Iquitos and Pucallpa to The Ayahuasca Reader, his work has helped bring many voices, traditions, and ways of knowing into conversation.

One vine. Many voices. The humility to listen.

Read ‘Four Ways of Listening to the Vine’ on our blog.

https://synergeticpress.com/blogs/blog/four-ways-of-listening-to-a-vine-a-meeting-at-the-world-ayahuasca-forum

This past weekend, what has happened in Girona, Spain from September 11th - 13th was the World Ayahuasca Forum. This event titled “a space for equitable dialogue”, was co-organized by ICEERS and the Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute of the Ashaninka leader Benki Piyãko and spoke of a plant that left the Amazonian forest to assume a new sphere. It comes after the three World Ayahuasca Conferences. Ibiza in 2014, Rio Branco in 2016, Girona in 2019 and five Indigenous Ayahuasca Congresses.

This story explores four ways of listening to the vine from authors Luis Eduardo Luna, Monica Gagliano, Marc B. Aixalà and Dennis McKenna and their work with Ayahuasca, plants, indigenous wisdom, and ceremony.

https://synergeticpress.com/blogs/blog/four-ways-of-listening-to-a-vine-a-meeting-at-the-world-ayahuasca-forum

Grandmother Mona Polacca from 📖 Grandmothers’ Wisdom: Living Portrayals from the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers was one of the voices at The World Ayahuasca Forum!

We had the honor of listening to Mona Polacca, Havasupai, Hopi, and Tewa elder and member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, at this year’s World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona.

Her presence brought us back to the importance of listening to the elders, to the Earth, to the waters, and to one another.

Swipe through to see a video of her speaking ✨

📍 Girona, 2026