Accidental Environmentalism: Nature and Cultivated Affect in European Neoshamanic Ayahuasca Consumption

Abstract Existing research demonstrates a positive connection between psychedelics and increased nature relatedness. Enhanced affective ties toward are widely framed as being built into the pharmakon itself, relevance of experiences remains little understood. This paper turns to neoshamanic ayahuasca ceremonies in Europe, exploring way specialists attendants refer speech performance. I argue that ritual framings performed during these provide fertile ground for emerge through substance‐induced experiences. trace such by how medicine healers coded; specific materialities rendered meaningful; individual discussed at retreats. even while participants prioritize healing, personal development, or satisfaction psychonautical curiosity, environmentalism appears be anchored proceedings themselves. Thus, this opens up analysis ceremonial substance use contact zone where coherence is produced intersubjectively.