Psychedelic Symbiosis
Category: Oral Presentation
Author(s): Magnus Miller
Presenter(s): Magnus Miller
Naturally occurring psychedelics, which are classified in 3 subclasses of 5HT2a agonists of non synthetic origin are produced within over a dozen genera and hundreds of species including Homo sapiens. Indigenous people including but not limited to those of the continents of Africa, America, and Europe have utilized these species for millennia in a pan global tradition of psychedelic influenced spirituality and medicine. These psychedelic producing species have a profound conscious altering effect that shapes our thinking, behavior and religious views. The species containing them are often found in association and close proximity to Homo sapiens and their activities in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship. In agriculture alone one can find many different species of psychedelic plants and fungi. This symbiosis is not only aiding the psychedelic species but also humans in a mutualism that transcends ecology as they are exalted in spiritual and medical practice.