MYR means many things: in astronomy, it is the abbreviation for millions of years, and in Slavic languages, “mir” is the noun for “peace”. Additionally, it is Eta’s psychedelic support project. Eta lives in Utrecht (Netherlands) and used to work as a facilitator of psychedelic experiences, mainly using psilocybin contained in specific types of truffles and mushrooms, legal in the Netherlands, to support people in different life situations or in the exploration of altered states of consciousness.

Today, we are once again speaking about psychedelia, revisiting studies on the potential of entheogenic and psychoactive substances that were abruptly interrupted by the reactionary demands of bourgeois society in the 1960s and 1970s. It is now clearer than ever that psychedelic experiences can open a space where human and non-human presences intertwine, allowing voices that usually remain invisible to momentarily emerge. This process can be deeply transformative.

Through an anthropological approach and the tools of ethnography, this research seeks to trace these experiential dimensions, holding together what appears and what dissolves, and translating lived psychedelic experiences into forms of shared knowledge. In doing so, it aims to contribute to a collective healing process, suggesting other ways of inhabiting the body, relating to others, human and non-human, and ultimately, other ways of existing.

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