Alex Gearin, CSWR, Psychedelic Intersections: 2024 Conference Anthology
Alex Gearin provides an ethnographic account of “atmospherics,” the affective and perceptual elements of a setting, in Indigenous-led ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru and “neoshamanic” ceremonies in Australia. Gearin argues that “atmospherics” accounts for a far more active role of the environment in which one takes a psychedelic than what has become known simply as “setting,” as in “set and setting.”