☥Ancient civilizations
Five civilisational fractures. Six accords for inhabiting those fractures with dignity. The complete cartography of the INFUSE cosmogony — not a grid to apply, a place you return to. Frankl, Akomolafe, Machado de Oliveira, Maté, Eisenstein, Van der Kolk, Strand, hooks, Glissant, Black Elk, Haraway, Kimmerer, Yunkaporta, Seth, Jung, Moss, Wangyal, Bachelard, Abram, Carson, Macy, Tsing, Mauss, Hyde, Eliade, Whorf, Basso, Chatwin, Buhner.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
If your myth doesn't hold up in the friction of a toe stubbed against a chair, your myth doesn't hold. A manifesto of bodily grounding. Van der Kolk, Levine, Strand, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, Odier. INFUSE refuses the decorative spirituality that never touches ground.
☥Ancient civilizations
WIE — the graphic fusion of I and WE. The gesture that says: I am a fully unfolded individual AND I am the living fabric. AND, not OR. Act 3 of the I INFUSE Myth. Glissant, Haraway, Eisenstein, Black Elk, Margulis, Kimmerer.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
Something happens when healing becomes a new command. Vanessa Machado de Oliveira calls it Hospicing Modernity. Bayo Akomolafe speaks of slowing down in urgent times. Sophie Strand, of wild care. A whole generation has worn itself out trying to repair itself — stacking therapies, retreats, plants, ceremonies, self-help books — and arrives with the same fatigue it started with, plus the fatigue of having tried. This piece does not say you should stop tending to yourself. It says you may need to stop believing you must heal everything. And learn to compost instead of repair.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
The mushroom of the mountain monk — from the Japanese Shugendō (Yamabushitake) to the Mori 2009 revolution (Phytotherapy Research). A Chinese imperial treasure for 2,000 years, with hippocampal neurogenesis via NGF/BDNF validated clinically today. A plant of the long, cumulative and reversible course — for those who want to build a quality of cognitive presence over 3 to 12 months.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Coyote, Loki, Anansi, Eshu, Hermes: what comparing the great trickster figures reveals about the archetype — and why each figure remains deeply...
☥Ancient civilizations
Campbell and Eliade revealed deep structures shared by myths the world over. But their universalism has real limits. What you need...
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Lewis Hyde showed that authentic creativity works like a gift in circulation — not like a property to be hoarded. What the figure of the trickst...
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Atropa belladonna bears the name of Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread. A European plant of medieval witches and Venetian ladies, gone from the modern pharmacopoeia. INFUSE refuses to sell her, and tells you why — sources and memory.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Mandragora officinarum is one of the most anciently attested plants of the Western pharmacopoeia. From the Bible to Hildegard, a surgical anaesthetic for 1,500 years. Today reduced to a prop in a children's novel. INFUSE refuses that, and restores her depth.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
The grand-mère of the mushrooms — of the Shennong Ben Cao Jing (~200 av. J.-C.) à the revolution Mori 1971 (culture comseaciale). More précieux that the or pendant of the siècles. Édit impérial Chen Sung 1004 : tout reishi wild doit being apported au palais. INFUSE sourthis Sibérie wild harvested, profondeur of hiver, doubthe extraction.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Eleutherococcus senticosus — Siberian taiga root, mother of all modern adaptogens. Brekhman coined the word in 1958 for her. Chewed by Evenki hunters, prescribed to Soviet cosmonauts, a secret discovered in Olympic urine. Plant of the long term, not the sprint.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
The tiger's leaf, the herbe of the éléphants, the plant ofs Sapthas Rishis. Cinq civilisations without contact between elthe (Inde, Sri Lanka, Chine, Indonésie, Madagascar) the have reconnue comme Medhyhas Rasayanhas — plante of the mental and of the longevity. INFUSE sourthis organic in the nord of the Inde. The plant of avant the longue traversée.
☥Alchemy & spagyric
From the Arab alembic of Al-Kindi in the 9th century to the copper stills of today's distilleries, distillation is one of the most universal techniques for transforming plants. It concentrates the volatile spirit — what the alchemists called Mercury — while preserving the plant's olfactory signature and its potency.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
Practitioners, friends, parents: how do you recognise when the person you are accompanying needs a mental-health professional? The key signals, the…
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Reishi, Chaga, Lion's Mane: their most active compounds are either water-soluble (beta-glucans) or fat-soluble (triterpenes). A simple decoction or a simple alcohol tincture captures only one half. Double extraction — hot water then alcohol, brought back together — is the only method that honors the whole organism.
☥Ancestral history
Eleventh-century Rhineland. A Cistercian abbess receives visions and translates them into a living pharmacopoeia: the Physica, 230 plants classified by their temperament. At the center of it all, viriditas — vital greenness, the green force that binds body, soul and cosmos. The first European medical system to refuse to cut the plant from its mystery.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
Titration, pendulation, the window of tolerance — three concepts from somatic psychology that transform how we design spaces, programmes, and pr…
☥Alchemy & spagyric
Sixteenth century, Basel. Paracelsus burns the works of Galen before his students and declares: nature is the only book. He invents spagyrics — the alchemical extraction of Salt, Sulphur and Mercury — and lays the foundations of a medicine of signatures. A forerunner of modern pharmacology and of systems thinking, he remains one of the most misunderstood figures in the history of plants.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
In 1947, the Soviet pharmacologist Lazarev coined the word "adaptogen". Around 1000 BCE, the Charaka Samhita codified the Rasayanas — substances that restore the vital essence and lengthen life. Two traditions, two vocabularies, one and the same finding: certain plants raise the body's non-specific resistance to stress. What that means — and what it does not.
☥Ancestral trauma healing
A padlock in the interface protects nothing. Sweeney and Dwork formalized what real protection requires — client-side encryption, zero-knowledge, k-anonymity for mental-health data and personal journals.
☥Sacred masculine
In 1947, a Soviet pharmacologist named Nikolai Lazarev coined the word adaptogen to describe a category of plants that heal nothing in particular — and shift everything. Twenty years of research on cosmonauts, soldiers, Arctic workers. Brekhman, Rhodiola, Eleutherococcus, Schisandra. An entire science, hidden behind the Iron Curtain, rediscovered by the wellness West without its context. This pillar holds a memory.
☥Ancient civilizations
Chamaemelum nobile is the plant that responds to pressure by giving more — trampled, it releases more fragrance. From the Ebers Papyrus to Beatrix Potter, 3500 years of teaching the body to set down without resistance.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Shila (rock) + jit (conqueror) — conqueror of mountains. Shilajit is not peaceful: it pushes back what has yielded to fatigue and age. A mineral resin formed over millions of years in the high ranges of the Altai, Himalayas, and Caucasus. Ayurveda's deepest adaptogen.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Eleutherococcus senticosus -- "Siberian ginseng," though it shares no genus with true ginseng. The foundational adaptogen of the Soviet program, used by Evenki hunters of Siberia for centuries before Brekhman studied it. Eleutherosides. The plant of long endurance, cold resistance, and immune integrity.
☥Ancient civilizations
Tussilago farfara pierces the still-frozen earth at the start of spring — yellow flower on bare ground, before any leaf. Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Pliny prescribed it for cough. In the Middle Ages, its flower was the sign of apothecaries. Here is coltsfoot, the plant of the lungs and of the tired courageous.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
For three centuries, in Europe, the women who knew the plants were killed. It was not a superstition. It was a policy. What the pyres burned was not a rival religion — it was an epistemic commons. Your grandmother, and mine, and hers, did not forget herbalism. They were dispossessed of it.
☥Alchemy & spagyric
Merlin Sheldrake documented the fusion of hyphae — when two strands of mycelium touch, recognise each other, and fuse into a single new being. Sophie Strand wrote that this is exactly what human love does when it does its work. Robin Wall Kimmerer showed that an animist grammar holds the two together. Anne Carson proved that Eros itself obeys this logic. One single grammar — becoming-with.
☥La Voie des Adaptogènes & Champignons
Vikings, Argonauts, Peter the Great, Soviet cosmonauts. Rhodiola rosea — the arctic root, the rose of the heights. The adaptogen most studied for acute stress and low mood. Salidroside and rosavins. A plant of swift momentum.
☥Les Plantes-Sorcières
Christopher Alexander spent his life searching for why some places are alive and others dead. Silvia Federici spent hers understanding why modernity burned the women who knew how to inhabit them. Lewis Hyde showed that the gift circulates differently from the commodity. Set at the same table, the three write a manual of dwelling — addressed first of all to those whom history has stripped of the tools.
☥Ancient civilizations
Mircea Eliade showed that traditional societies did not live in the time that passes — they lived in the time that returns. Bachelard wrote that reverie is the operation by which we leave chronology and enter cosmicity. Tarkovsky filmed this border between the two times seven times over. Set side by side, they write a manual for turning a Tuesday evening into a sanctuary.
☥Ancient civilizations
The word "disenchantment" was coined by Max Weber in 1917. Carolyn Merchant dated the gesture: 1450-1700. Silvia Federici showed who paid the price for it. David Abram described what we lost in phenomenological terms. Morris Berman named the possibility of return. Five voices set side by side trace the only honest path toward what we call, for want of a better word, re-enchantment.
☥Ancient civilizations
The slime mould solves the Tokyo metro in twenty-six hours, without a brain. Elinor Ostrom proves that Maine fishers manage their lobsters better than any ministry, without a law. Merlin Sheldrake shows that forests negotiate biological exchange rates between trees and fungi. Three inquiries, a single theorem: collective intelligence needs no summit.
☥Ancient civilizations
Animism is not a religion — it is a grammar. Eduardo Kohn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Abram, Bayo Akomolafe, Anna Tsing: seven INFUSE editorial rules for keeping the plant a subject within the sentence.