Black Psychedelic Revolution

- Authors
- Powers, Nicholas
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Books
- Date
- 2025-01-21T08:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.00 MB
- Lang
- en
How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized traumaan Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberationThe mainstream has long viewed psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege: money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment. Though psychedelics have deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultures, Western psychedelic spaces have historically excluded People of Colorbut the radical healing of psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine arent just for a rarefied elite. And theyre definitely not just for white people.Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and powerthe Promised Land as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr.Risqu? Sure. But its true.In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nicholas Powers charts how...