Dráulio Barros de Araújo

Sidarta Ribeiro, a Brazilian neuroscientist, explores how dreams and other forms of access to the unconscious can transform human experience. In his research, he proposes combining the ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples and people of African origin in Brazil with scientific knowledge, as well as a scientific reevaluation of experiences with hallucinogens.

Diverse individuals (a demolition expert, a visagist, a physicist, an Indigenous leader, and a Santo Daime priest) recount how psychedelics transformed their lives in unexpected and profound ways.