Black Psychedelic Revolution : From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal from racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture - Nicholas Powers, PhD

Black Psychedelic Revolution

From Trauma to Liberation--How to heal from racial, generational, and systemic trauma through reclaiming Black psychedelic culture

By: Nicholas Powers, PhD

Paperback | 21 January 2025

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How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma-an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation

How psychedelics can heal historical, intergenerational, and racialized trauma-an Afrofuturistic take on Black psychedelia toward joy and liberation

The mainstream has long viewed psychedelic medicine as the purview of people with privilege- money to burn, time to trip, and the social safety to experiment. Though psychedelics have deep roots in Black and Indigenous cultures, Western psychedelic spaces have historically excluded People of Color-but the radical healing of psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine aren't just for a rarefied elite. And they're definitely not just for white people.

Combined with quality therapy, safe and equitable access, and full-scale societal healing, psychedelics are a shortcut to liberation, dignity, and power-the "Promised Land" as envisioned by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Risque? Sure. But it's true.

In Black Psychedelic Revolution, Dr. Nicholas Powers charts how psychedelics can heal racial pain passed on through generations. He shows how this medicine unlocks a return to one's self, facilitating an embodied experience of safety, peace, and being-here-now otherwise disrupted by whiteness-and he explores how psychedelics can catalyze individual wellness even as they transcend it. Drugs taken with therapy can heal. But drugs taken with a social movement can heal a nation.

Powers unpacks how the Drug War, racist policing, mass incarceration, and community gatekeeping intersect to sideline POC-specifically Black people-from the psychedelic movement. He asserts the need for a full-stop reclamation and revolution- one that eschews psychedelic exceptionalism, breaks down raced and classed constructs of "good" vs. "bad" drugs, realizes healing, and lives into a free, strong, and independent Blackness.

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