Consciousness — the field of subjective experience, perception, self-awareness and meaning-making — sits at the heart of the contemporary interest in psychoactive plants and traditional medicines. Substances such as ayahuasca, ibogaine, peyote and psilocybin-containing mushrooms induce states often described as expanded, mystical or therapeutically significant, and have become a focus of neuroscience, philosophy and clinical research. ICEERS gathers here content addressing consciousness from scientific, cultural and contemplative perspectives.
