Rachel Harris, PhD, is a psychologist with both a research and a clinical background. She was in the 1968 residential program at Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California, and remained on the staff for a number of years. During the decade she worked in academic research, Rachel received a New Investigator’s Award from the National Institutes of Health and published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She was in private psychotherapy practice for forty years. Rachel is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca (2017) and Swimming in the Sacred (2023).
Contributions to Humans & Nature
- “Ayahuasca Plant Teacher,” an essay in Sensoria: Attending to the Wonder and Vitality of Nature (Humans & Nature Press, 2026).Â
