Niki Sylva is passionate about empowerment through information resourcing and harm reduction for individuals, communities, and the environment. She facilitates peer integration circles in her community and coordinates educational programming for Botanical Dimensions Ethnobotany Library. She is caretaker of The Understory, an online resource for integrating psychedelic worldviews grounded in community and ecology. She can often be found on a hike or playing guitar.
December 14, 2016
Here's some integrative antidepressant approaches that have low or no side effects and won't cost you an arm and a leg.
December 15, 2016
So much of the conversation surrounding sex, like that surrounding drugs, is fear-based and chock full of negativity.
December 19, 2016
It’s hard to imagine Trump & Sessions stuffing the toothpaste back in the tube, but remember drug prohibition is a lucrative business.
December 20, 2016
Over the past few years, psychedelic societies have begun popping up all over the world. We interviewed some of the pioneers. First stop: USA.
December 21, 2016
Many people in today’s neoliberal capitalist society feel deeply confused and dissatisfied at the suggestion that the meaning of life is material accumulation and consumption. It seems more and more people are asking, “Is this it?” And of course, it isn’t; there is more to life.
December 22, 2016
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
December 23, 2016
Here's some tips for having a transformative conversation over the holidays.
December 24, 2016
I had not realized that this was a mushroom chocolate given to me as I was sitting there on his lap
January 3, 2017
Being a normal person who uses drugs has given me courage to accept those things I can’t change—namely, my past.
January 5, 2017
A research program was seeking volunteers with a spiritual background to ingest a hallucinogen.