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Culture & language

The language around psychedelics carries history and values. These field notes ask where familiar terms came from, what they reveal, what they flatten, and how to speak with greater precision and cultural humility.

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The words, histories, rituals, communities, and power relationships surrounding psychedelic medicines.

Culture & language

What Is an Entheogen?

The word is often translated as “generating the divine within.” It names a way of relating to certain substances—not a tidy pharmacological category.

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