Aeon1d
For an Amazonian female shaman, ayahuasca ceremonies are a rite and a business
Glimpse into the daily life of a female shaman who hosts ayahuasca ceremonies for tourists in the Peruvian Amazon ...
Aeon1d
When I lost my intuition
For years, I practised medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t ...
Aeon5d
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
is an anthropologist working with the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon. She has a PhD in anthropology from the London School of Economics, and is the principal investigator of the LearningNatures project ...
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‘Save the parasites’ may not be a popular rallying cry – but it could be a vital one
One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them ...
Aeon6d
What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time?
In this eloquent lecture, the Italian theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli takes audiences on a journey to the edges of our understanding of time. Working from ideas explored in his book The ...
Aeon7d
The consulting office reflects the personality of the therapist, while also subtly shaping the experience of their patients
My psychoanalyst’s consulting room was brown and functional. There wasn’t much inside it and its walls were bare aside from Claude Monet’s The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (1873). It shows a woman in ...