The natural world is full of beauty, sustenance, and healing if you only know where to look. For tens of thousands of years, human cultures around the globe had all of their needs met by plants, animals, and natural resources that surrounded them. For medicine, they could find a finely stocked pharmacy in the roots, herbs, fungi, and trees all around them. Some of these early peo-ples discovered that some plant medicines did not just heal toothaches and other physical ail-ments but expanded the mind in incredible ways as well. They placed these sacred plants at the heart of their spiritual traditions.