JUNE 2025

The neuroscience of the modern world has lost contact with the Sacred- ironic given that many of its pioneers were animated by visionary and intuitive ways of knowing. What would be required to reorganize neuroscience doing honor to its animist origins? What would be necessary to refigure the discipline, moving it out of the cranial hegemony of a brain-centered bias and back into the fullness of our embodied experience? How could it be re-conceptualized as a liberatory project and praxis?

In HEARTH SCIENCE, pioneering ancestral neuroscientist Natureza Gabriel, author of THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF CONNECTION, RESTORATIVE PRACTICES Of WELLBEING, A FIELD GUIDE TO THE MISSING WORDS, SO, ABOUT THAT DEATH CULT YOU JOINED?, and Developer of Autonomics, re-writes the history of neuroscience through the lens of visionary epistemology, revisiting the work of its principal architects to reveal a lineage of animist and visionary neuroscientists. Rather than being peripheral or anomalous, Gabriel reveals the ways in which visionary and intuitive knowings are a central feature of the line of neuroscientific breakthrough through which the discipline has evolved since inception.

In this journey, he re-centers the power of self-directed discovery, interoceptive tracking, and the reclamation of deep inwardness as core components of a liberatory psychobiological inquiry, illuminating the depths and contours of a new, and possibly very ancient, science, and putting its transformational power back in your hands.