ENTHEOCENE noun [en-thee-uh-seen] / ɛnˈθi əˌsiːn /
Plant sacraments of the world

Entheocene

The ethnobotany, tradition and phenomenology of culture plants that have shaped vision, art, myth and mysticism.

Featured · Cultural complexPangaean Entheobotanical Renewal : Ayahuasca AnaloguesThe underground movement that set out to recreate ayahuasca from plants of other continents: its personalities, literature, experiments and ideas. Featured · Cultural complexCircum-Amazonian Snuff ComplexYopo, vilca, epená and tobacco powders: plants made to travel on another person’s breath, from the Orinoco to the south-central Andes. Featured · Plant entryBanisteriopsis caapiThe vine at the centre of ayahuasca and yagé: its β-carbolines, its varied chemistry, and a ritual bundle of c. 905–1170 CE. Featured · Plant entryAnadenanthera colubrinaVilca and cebil: a South American tree whose seeds have been smoked, snuffed, drunk and offered for some four thousand years.

Edited by Daniel Mirante

The archive

Pharmakon

Greek — remedy and poison in one vessel

The standing archive. Contemporary and traditional cultural complex and entheobotanical plant indexes.

26 species · 15 cultural complexes

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Cultural complexes

Pangaean Entheobotanical Renewal : Ayahuasca AnaloguesAnahuasca · Pharmahuasca Psychonautic DMT: Extended Modalities & Hyperspatial Entity/Realm ResearchDMT · N,N-DMT Ayahuasca ComplexAyawaska · Yagé / Yajé Brazilian Ayahuasca–Jurema Syncretic Religions ComplexSanto Daime · União do Vegetal Circum-Amazonian Snuff ComplexYopo · Vilca Andean Huachuma–Mesa ComplexHuachuma · San Pedro Mazatec Divinatory Medicine ComplexNdi xi tjo · niños santos Teonanácatl: Mesoamerican Mushroom TraditionsTeonanácatl · ‘flesh of the gods’

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Species

Banisteriopsis caapiAyahuasca vine · Yagé Nicotiana rusticaMapacho · Strong tobacco Psychotria viridisChacruna · Chacrona Brugmansia suaveolensAngel’s trumpet · Toé Diplopterys cabreranaChaliponga · Chagropanga Mimosa tenuifloraJurema · Jurema-preta PsilocybeTeonanácatl · Pajarito Virola theiodoraEpéna · Nyakwána

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The edition

Entheocene Dossier

Bi-monthly — a themed issue, read whole

A periodic edition: original essays, interviews, primary texts and creative arts. Submissions for Dossier 1 and 2 are open.

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1 · Dec 2026Entheogenic ShamanismShamanism & Ontology 2 · Feb 2027Archaic Revival & CybercultureThe Machine and the Old Technologies

Cover 2: Terence McKenna, AllChemical Arts Conference, 1999 · Jon Hanna · CC BY-SA 3.0

About the name

Entheocene

noun  [en-thee-uh-seen]  / ɛnˈθi əˌsiːn /

Etymology

ENTHEO-

from entheogen

From entheogen and the Greek éntheos (ἔνθεος): inspired, or containing the divine; en-, “within”, and theos, “god”. Entheogen denotes substances used to occasion sacred or spiritual experience.

-CENE

from epoch

From the Greek kainos (καινός), “new” or “recent”: the suffix used in geological epoch names. Here it gives a cultural and ecological proposition a speculative deep-time horizon.

Poetic reading: “the era of the divine within” — an age of spiritual and ecological inspiration.

An era of manifesting the sacred

The Entheocene is a proposed cultural epoch and philosophical framework in which entheogenic and liminal states advance human learning, creativity and cultural transformation.

The entheocene explores deep-time relationships between human consciousness and sacred plants, a learning approach connecting entheogenic states with sustained inquiry, integration and the development of shared knowledge. It approaches surviving Indigenous traditions with respect and as sources of vital learning. This ancestral grounding remains open to humanity’s ecological, technological and cosmological futures. The Entheocene articulates a creative and transpersonal imperative: a transition from extractive destruction towards reciprocal participation in the living cosmos—“the imagination of nature”.

— Daniel Mirante