Tag: Coronavirus

Iquitos, Capital of Ayahuasca, Struggles During COVID

The burgeoning expansion of ayahuasca around the globe has allowed for the evolution of an...

Supporting Grassroots Initiatives for Indigenous People in the Amazon during COVID

Chacruna aims to contribute to a larger body of work that critically examines, celebrates, and...

Urgent Action Needed: COVID-19 Pandemic Devastating Amazonia

Dear friends and colleagues, I am asking for help, urgently, with this letter. It has three parts: (1)...

Coronavirus, Self-Isolation, and the Pragmatic Fatalism of Indigenous Peoples

We usually think about the medical systems of indigenous people in terms of plants, rituals,...

Ensuring Psychedelic Liberty in Black and Brown Communities: Questions to Ponder

Our current coronacrisis connects to what we will be discussing at the Psychedelic Liberty Summit—the...

The Virus, Ayahuasca, Grief, and Hope

As the whole world grapples with coronavirus, I have the peculiar fate of being deep...

Coronavirus Brings Back Memories

Justino Sarmento Rezende, a Salesian priest of the Tuyuka indigenous people from the Upper Rio...

Humankind Crowned – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Virus

To put it up front, this essay is not about relativization. I am sitting in...

Voluntary Isolation in the Age of Coronavirus

While such drastic measures of social distancing are novel and challenging in our hyper-connected contemporary...