Kathleen Harrison | “A Brief History of Psychedelics from Tradition Roots to the 21st Century “
Emerging from roots in indigenous folk practice, we follow the path of psychedelic species and the relative newcomer LSD, through a century of cross-cultural introduction. These plants, fungi and substances have wended their way across boundaries, seeding cultural transformation in the West and generating more questions than answers. We will regard this complex landscape, including the creative burst we now call Psychedelic Revolution.
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Kathleen Harrison is an ethnobotanist who has spent five decades studying the relationships between plants, fungi and humans. Her research has been focused in cultures of the Indigenous Americas, the Pacific, and California. She was born at just the right moment to participate in the rich West Coast American counter-culture that first flowered with LSD. She has extensive experience in Northwest Amazonian ayahuasca culture from the 1970s-90s. For the past thirty years, Kat has been in close association with a Mazatec healer and his family in the mushroom-infused mountains of southern Mexico. She co-founded Botanical Dimensions, dedicated to collecting and preserving ethnobotanically significant species and lore. Her expertise has evolved to reflect beliefs, rituals, and patterns of mythology, as well as how traditional knowledge adapts to present conditions.
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Mar 11 2024
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
