The Psychedelics Industry Is Booming—but Who’s Being Left Out?

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Three researchers discuss the possibilities and problems arising as psychedelic plant medicines, held sacred by many Indigenous communities, move into the global mental health and tourism industries.

opening opportunities for engagement between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples?

I think if we can develop those relationships, that can be beneficial because we’re so atomized in the “West.” Urbanization, alienation, disconnection, and loneliness are problems. Once we realize we are a part of nature, not apart from nature, that is going to be better for the human species and the environment.

Fundamentally, the problem is a clash of worldviews. Be it the mining, the plantations, or urban psychedelic tourists, it’s that Western perspective of seeing everything as a resource to be consumed rather than a relationship that has to be maintained.DL: Their perspective is that they’ve communicated with their spirits, and it’s time to try to wake up Westerners to a different relationship with the environment and with other people.

 

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