Additional Resources on Current Projects

Journal and Conference Papers

González Romero, Osiris. “Xochipilli: Psychedelic Plants, Song, and Ritual in Aztec Religion.” In Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology, edited by Jeffrey Breau and Paul Gillis-Smith. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2025. https://doi.org/10.70423/0001.20

González Romero, Osiris. “Cognitive Liberty and the Psychedelic Humanities.” Front in Psych, vol 14. (2023) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128996

Williams, Keith; González Romero, Osiris; Brant, Suzanne and Braunstein, Michelle. “Indigenous Philosophies and the “Psychedelic Renaissance.” Anthropology of Consciousness 33 (2) (2022): 506-527. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12161

Book Chapters

González Romero, Osiris and Macuil, Carmen. ”Healing of the Thunderbolt in Nahua Entheogenic Medicine (Psilocybeaztecorum and Tagetes lucida), In Michael J. Winkelman (ed) Brill Handbook of Entheogenic Healing (Brill, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004729759

González Romero, Osiris “Maria Sabina, Mushrooms and Colonial Extractivism”. In Erika Dyck (ed). Women and Psychedelics. Uncovering Invisible Voices. (Synergetic Press, 2024).

González Romero, Osiris. “Decolonizing the Philosophy of Psychedelics”. In Ch. Hauskeller and Peter Sjöstedt (eds) Philosophy and Psychedelics. Frameworks for Exceptional Experiences. (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Research Reflections. Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR)

González Romero, Osiris. “The Holy Inquisition and the Genesis of Seventeenth Century Peyote Banning”. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. (December 3, 2025).

González Romero, Osiris. “Trascendental Visions in Wixárika Art, The Nierika”.Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. (March 31, 2025).

González Romero, Osiris. · “Ritual and Religious Uses of Psilocybe Mushrooms in Mesoamerica”. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. (October 9, 2024).

Videos

González Romero, Osiris. “The Healing of the Thunderbolt. Nahua Medicine and Psilocybe Muhsroom Rituals.” Psychedelic Intersections Conference 2025. Harvard Divinity School. Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). Feb, 15, 2025.

González Romero, Osiris “Mesoamerican Psychedelics, Decolonization and the Concept of an Ontological Turn”. Psychedelics Today. Episode 499. Mar, 29, 2024.

González Romero, Osiris. “Xochipilli: Psychedelic Plants, Game and Ritual in Aztec Worldview.” Psychedelic Intersections Conference 2024. Harvard Divinity School. Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) Feb, 17, 2024

Media Interviews and Podcasts

“What can Western medicine learn from the ancient history of psychedelics”. BBC-Future. Sep, 11, 2024.

“The Hallucinogenic World.” Made in Latin America Podcast. British Museum. Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research SDCELAR. Jul, 13, 2022.

Academic Scholarship

Osiris González Romero´s academia.edu page with numerous articles on psychedelics and spirituality and Indigenous philosophies.

Osiris González Romero´s website with numerous links to academic resources on psychedelics and spirituality and Indigenous philosophies.

Mazatec Visionary Art. René Alvarado.

Psicomagia (2023) Acrylic/Canvas