Related to some Indigenous groups (this time in Latin America, mostly), the mantis and insectoid alien are perfectly obvious again in the contemporary psychedelic research and religious scenes, particularly around those altered states involving the intravenous injection or oral consumption of DMT (dimethyltryptamine), present in what is commonly known as ayahuasca in the Indigenous cultures of the Amazonian basin but also related to the psilocybin molecule, another tryptamine that occurs in magic mushrooms.
