Alex K. Gearin

My author copies just arrived! Global Ayahuasca (Stanford Uni Press) provides a more complicated view of the experiences people can have with ayahuasca, whether in Peru, Australia, or China. Available early August or pre-order now 🌿 1/4 amazon.com/Global-Ayahuas… #ethnography

Next week! Join us for a movement-centred discussion on the kinopolitics and kinopoetics that emerge in the Anthropocene at HKBU. Read more about the conference registration, programme, and abstracts: hmw.hkbu.edu.hk/event/internat…

We (myself, @PsychedelicSTS, @ee_schenberg, and C. Hauskeller) are organizing a conference at Harvard (Nov. 12-13) featuring an outstanding line up of speakers. Courtesy of a grant from the Psychedelics in Society and Culture initiative by @MHCHarvard. harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3a…

@KingFranklinIV Thanks Franklin. Would be curious to hear your thoughts on it sometime, including the part on psychedelic psychiatrists "code switching" between ontologies.

@alex_gearin Congrats! Cant wait to dig in.

Fresh paper on psychedelic metaphor and ontological collision at a Shipibo-led ayahuasca retreat in Amazonian Peru 🌿 Applies a polyontological lens to consider diverse ways of understanding ayahuasca across culture and experience. First 50 downloads free tandfonline.com/eprint/KGTPRPV…

@jamieywang @mitpress Well done Jamie! 👏🎉👏🎉

Just received the author copies from @mitpress 🥰🪷☀️. “Reimagining the more-than-human city” explores the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of & story cities. I cant wait for it to meet the world!

Psychedelics and SOCIAL CURE paper is out. It was such a pleasure to work on it with @martha_newson @alexanderhaslam Cath Haslam, and Tegan Cruwys. nature.com/articles/s4422…

Professor @alex_gearin has just published the new book "Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds" @stanfordpress. 📚Hardcover, Paperback and Ebook are all available. 📌sup.org/books/title/?i… #Psychedelic #Ayahuasca #Ethnographic #MEHU

With this short editorial, it’s a wrap for the Frontiers collection on the ‘Psychedelic Humanities’! frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

China may be known for its love of meat, but for some gourmands, vegetarian cooking was the highest culinary art. sixthtone.com/news/1015694

So, the Chinese version of Mad by the Millions will be available soon. It’s got a new title, 度量瘋狂. And the original subtitle is back: mental disorders in the age of world citizenship, experts and technology. #medhist #medhum #sts #stm

"There Are No Good Treatments for PTSD. MDMA Can Change That" Please don't spread such harmful propaganda, it really does not help with anything. There are, in fact, very good treatments for PTSD. MDMA can probably be useful nonetheless. time.com/7008733/mdma-a…

Thanks @erik_davis for the kind introduction. Those in the neighbourhood can come next Tuesday to explore Ayahuasca and Time Travel at @BerkeleyAlembic eventbrite.com/e/ayahuasca-an…

A short sample from my new book Global Ayahuasca. Titled "Merchants of Wonder," it explores the craft of Shipibo healers catalyzing special experiences for others 🌿 @BerkeleyAlembic berkeleyalembic.substack.com/p/merchants-of…

Global Ayahuasca by @alex_gearin examines how the visions of ayahuasca are entangled within the social and economic realities that they illuminate, revealing different tensions, fears, and hopes of everyday modern life. #ReadUP sup.org/books/title/?i…

It's common to hear ayahuasca evoking encounters with the past, which includes in the popularity of trauma approaches, but other kinds focus on the future, whether for hunting, healing, creativity, or business. Come hear more on Aug 13 at @BerkeleyAlembic eventbrite.com/e/ayahuasca-an…

@LeorRoseman @trpwolff @Titoschmi @ManojDoss @JacobSAday @RickZeifman @Drug_Researcher @FredBarrettPhD @RCarhartHarris @KatrinPreller @PLiknaitzky @N_Gukasyan and a few reported "maybe some faint images" or "no visual changes at all". Published in Global Ayahuasca (2024) book.

@LeorRoseman @trpwolff @Titoschmi @ManojDoss @JacobSAday @RickZeifman @Drug_Researcher @FredBarrettPhD @RCarhartHarris @KatrinPreller @PLiknaitzky @N_Gukasyan In my small survey (n=43) of ayahuasca visitors at a temple in Peru, most had tried aya less than 10 times, approx. 28% reported "many intricate and clear visions", 36% "a few intricate and clear visions", 26% "only vague patterns and colors, nothing very intricate", 1/

What is the most context-independent (least dependent on "set & setting") acute psychological effect of classical psychedelics? @Titoschmi @ManojDoss @JacobSAday @RickZeifman @Drug_Researcher @FredBarrettPhD @RCarhartHarris @KatrinPreller @PLiknaitzky @LeorRoseman @N_Gukasyan

A less provocative title would be "muse and medicine", but the "or" distinction alludes to how people are socialized into different orientations when they encounter psychedelics, whether more or less medical, religious, ancestral, creative, celebratory, or other.

For those in the Bay Area, California, come along to hear me get anthropological about different kinds of ayahuasca usage on Aug 14 at Stanford Uni. I'll be presenting from my new book "Global Ayahuasca" with fresh ethnographic perspectives for the psychedelic humanities. 1/