Una Meistere is a cultural journalist and curator, co-founder, and Editor-in-Chief of the international platforms Arterritory.com and Spiriterritory.com. Her interest in consciousness and psychedelics began in 2016 during an interview with artist Ernesto Neto, leading her to the Amazon rainforest, the Puyanawa tribe, and a formative dialogue with ethnopharmacologist Dennis McKenna. Since then, Una has seen herself as a bridge builder between indigenous knowledge, contemporary culture, and scientific research, expressing this perspective through in-depth conversations with leading thinkers such as Wade Davis, Tim Ingold, Luis Eduardo Luna, Eduardo Neves, and Rick Strassman. In 2021, she co-founded the NGO Veselīga Latvija (Healthy Latvia) to address growing mental health and environmental challenges. With support from international experts, she co-organized in Riga the region’s first conferences on psychedelic science, including a pioneering 2025 event at the University of Latvia—the first of its kind—which laid the groundwork for destigmatizing psychedelics and integrating Latvia into international research dialogue.

Brainforest Café Podcast with Una Meistere (Ep#52), January 2026
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