White Gold; the Diary of a Rubber Cutter in the Amazon 1906-1916
White Gold in Reprint White Gold is the diary of an American named John C. Jungjohann, recounting his journey through the Brazilian Amazon and the toilsome ten years of his life spent working as a...
NYC – Understanding Ayahuasca: From Indigenous Origins To Neo-Shamanism
Understanding Ayahuasca: From Indigenous Origins To Neo-Shamanism Synergetic Press Symposium and Salon in New York Ayahuasca Visitation by Alex Grey, in Ayahuasca Reader: Encounters with the...
Wisdom from the Elders: Stories from Indigenous Ayahuasca Traditions
Ayahuasca is More than a Headline As it becomes more widespread, more people are sharing their experiences with ayahuasca. This traditional indigenous plant medicine has been making its way beyond...
Be Part of the Global Ayahuasca Reader Movement
Join the Launch of Ayahuasca Reader! Join us in supporting the launch of our newest book, Ayahuasca Reader, and a educational outreach initiative designed to spread awareness and understanding on...
Tracing the Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes
This article is reposted with permission from the American Botanical Council. You can see the original post here. By Mark Plotkin, PhD Richard Evans Schultes, PhD, was the greatest Amazonian...
Why is Ayahuasca so Popular Now?
As so many shifts are occurring on the planet and people look for ways to adapt their lives, more and more have been finding ayahuasca to be an invaluable tool in their transformation. We answered...
Vine of the Soul and Embrace of the Serpent
Embrace of the Serpent (El Abrazo de la Serpiente) is a newly released film based in part on the experiences of ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes (author of Synergetic Press’ Vine of the Soul) in...
Technature
What is the ‘nature’ of technology? While some people think that nature and technology are in fundamental opposition, and others rest in the assumption that all that is must be natural simply for having come into being, Synergetic Press author Christian Schwägerl explores the implications of "bioadaptation" as a symbiotic interweaving of technology and biospsheric systems...
Next Generation Ecologists – Hayley Todesco
... as a student, Todesco was inspired to address environmental issues through her science fair projects and, in her most recent experiment, went far beyond the paper maché volcano. In fact, she developed a system to filter toxic tailings created when mining for bitumen in tar sands, allowing these toxic acids to decompose fourteen times faster than they would otherwise.
Could ‘Bio-Futurism’ lead to a long & prosperous road ahead?
[su_youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6We2J422yow” width=”620″ height=”440″] A hot topic for layperson and PhD alike, nobody will deny that the term...