Plant medicine is a helluva teacher

What Xanga taught me about the cyclical nature of time and the secret joy that hides behind our fears.

The final chapter of my Yucatán journey is a long-awaited ritual with plant medicine. I’ve explored the therapeutic potential of psilocybin mushrooms for some time, and in Mexico, these and other sacred plants like peyote and Xanga are used ceremonially. Increasingly, Westerners are coming to see these not as drugs, but as medicines that can open doors …