Dream Herbs: A History of Plants and the Sleeping Mind

Humans have always been interested in their dreams, not just in interpreting them after the fact but in cultivating them, in finding ways to make the dream space more accessible, more vivid, more legible. And across cultures that developed this interest, certain...

Mugwort: The Dreaming Herb and Its Ritual History

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a plant that has never quite sat comfortably within simple categories, because it has always belonged to both folk medicine and spiritual practice simultaneously. The genus name Artemisia honors the Greek goddess of the moon, of...