“There is a danger looming over ayahuasca: spiritual appropriation”
What’s the biggest danger looming over ayahuasca? In 2018, in the wake of the tragic murder of the maestra Olivia Arévalo at the hands of an ayahuasca tourist, the healers of the Shipibo-Konibo ethnic group founded ASOMASHK, an association that brings together more than 150 traditional healers who work in all areas of traditional medicine…
“Ketamine provides a detached and new perspective on oneself”
Estefanía Moreno will be part of the round table “Climbing Out of the Hole: Ketamine and Mental Health,” next Saturday, November 23rd, at Fuertedélica. Moreno is a doctor with training in Psychoneuroimmunology and Transpersonal Psychology, and she conducts ketamine-assisted psychotherapy at Clínica Synaptica, a pioneering center in Catalonia for psychedelic therapy. More than 240 patients…
From the Dance Floor to the Therapy Couch: A Brief History of MDMA
MDMA was first synthesized by Anton Köllisch at the pharmaceutical company Merck in Germany. The young German chemist developed 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine in his quest for an alternative chemical method to synthesize hydrastinine. The molecule was patented on December 24, 1912, but was never tested on humans. With the outbreak of World War I, Köllisch was recruited…
“The iboga cults consider themselves the true Christians”
Giorgio Samorini is one of the great scholars, perhaps the last, in the ethnobotanical study of the use of intoxicating plants in living and extinct cultures. Samorini, originally from Bologna (Italy) but residing for years in Mallorca, will attend Fuertedélica 2024 to talk about “The Cults of Iboga,” a fascinating topic on the use of…
“New psychoactive substances are poor substitutes for classics like MDMA”
Fernando Caudevilla, also known as Doctor X, will be speaking at Fuertedélica, the Psychedelic Conference of Fuerteventura, about one of his favorite molecules, MDMA, a substance that is making its way back into psychologists’ offices after reigning on the dance floors for four decades. We talked with Doctor X about MDMA culture, new chemical drugs,…
