List of Chacruna Contributors:
Adam Andros Aronovich is a PhD candidate in Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Catalonia. He is member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center and of Chacruna’s Ayahuasca Community Committee.
Latest posts by Adam Andros Aronovich, Ph.D(C) (see all)
- Ayahuasca, Healing and Cognitive Justice - December 3, 2020
- How Indigenous Youths in Peru are Being Initiated in Western Ayahuasca Retreat Centers - April 15, 2017
Dr. Timothy Brewerton is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, certified in general, child-adolescent, forensic psychiatry and addiction medicine. He is an author on 150+ publications, including two books.
Latest posts by Dr. Timothy D. Brewerton (see all)
- How the Amazonian Tea Ayahuasca Affects Mental Health - July 12, 2017
Dr. Clancy Cavnar is a licensed psychologist who works in a private practice in San Francisco. She is Co-Founder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Chacruna Institute. See also: https://www.drclancycavnar.com/
Latest posts by Dr. Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D. (see all)
- Queering Psychedelics: An Introduction - August 7, 2024
- Introduction to Women and Psychedelics - July 26, 2024
- Eight Frequently Asked Questions About Ayahuasca Globalization - February 13, 2024
Dawn D. Davis is a mother, a wife to Dr. Cleve Davis, a micro-farmer and a Ph.D student at the University of Idaho. She exercises laughter and practices humor.
Latest posts by Dawn D. Davis, Ph.D. (C) (see all)
- How My Elder’s Sacred Peyote is Disappearing - April 3, 2017
Alexander Dawson, Ph.D., teaches history at the University at Albany (SUNY). He is the author of four books and numerous articles. His most recent book,The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, was published by the University of California Press in 2018.
Latest posts by Alexander Dawson, Ph.D. (see all)
- Psychedelics, Sex, and Consent: A Brief History - May 22, 2019
- Why Are Some Drugs Legal, and Others Illegal? - November 6, 2017
- Racist Thinking Still Shapes How We Understand Peyote Drinking - April 15, 2017
Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier is an Argentine-Brazilian feminist anthropologist, university professor and translator researching topics linked to gender, collective health, human rights, decolonization and epistemic pluralism.
Latest posts by Gretel Echazú, Ph.D. (see all)
- How Indigenous & Black People are Fighting Colonialism in the Academy - September 2, 2020
- How Feminine is Ayahuasca? - November 21, 2016
Ben Feinberg is a Professor of Anthropology at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. He is the author of “The Devil’s Book of Culture: History, Mushrooms, and Caves in Southern Mexico” (2003).
Latest posts by Ben Feinberg, Ph.D. (see all)
- Undiscovering Huautla: City of the Magic Mushrooms - March 24, 2017
Amanda Feilding is the Founder and Director of the Beckley Foundation. Through the Scientific Programme, Amanda orchestrates collaborations with leading scientists worldwide, investigating cannabis, psilocybin, LSD, Ayahuasca, DMT and MDMA.
Latest posts by Amanda Feilding (see all)
- Ayahuasca in the Age of Neuroscience - March 10, 2017
Hayden Griffin is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He has a PhD in criminology from the University of Florida and a JD from the University of Richmond. He has more than 30 publications and is first author (along with Vanessa Woodward and John Sloan) of The Money and Politics of Criminal Justice Policy (Carolina Academic Press, 2016.)
Latest posts by Hayden Griffin, Ph.D. (see all)
- Understanding the Kratom Ban Controversy - March 13, 2017
Graham St John, PhD, is Senior Research Fellow, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is a cultural anthropologist specialising in event-cultures and entheogens. He has authored/edited eight books including "Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT". www.edgecentral.net
Latest posts by Graham St. John, Ph.D. (see all)
- The DMT Trip and the Mysteries of Hyperspace Travel - March 9, 2017
- When Terence McKenna First Smoked DMT - December 24, 2016
Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., is the Alan Watts Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University in Oakland California. His many books include "Personal Mythology and Working with Dreams" and "PTSD Nightmares: 14 Approaches for Psychotherapists and Counselors".
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Bia Labate has a PhD in anthropology. She has published 28 books and 3 special journal editions about psychedelic plant medicines, shamanism, religion, ritual, drug policy and social justice. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute.
Latest posts by Bia Labate, Ph.D. (see all)
- Where Is the Psychedelic Movement Headed Next? - October 15, 2024
- The FDA’s Rejection on MDMA-Assisted Therapy: What is Next for the Psychedelic Movement? - August 16, 2024
- Queering Psychedelics: An Introduction - August 7, 2024
Armando Loizaga is president of the Nierika Institute in Mexico. His work focuses on advancing multidisciplinary clinical research protocols to evaluate therapeutic potential of psychedelic plants used in ritual contexts, preservation of indigenous psychedelic culture and drug policy reform.
Latest posts by Armando Loizaga (see all)
- Is Ayahuasca an Effective Therapeutic Tool for Addiction Treatment? - April 19, 2017
Dr. Adele Lafrance is a clinical psychologist, author and co-developer of emotion-focused treatment modalities. She conducts research on the therapeutic value of consciousness altering substances, including mechanisms of healing.
Latest posts by Dr. Adèle Lafrance (see all)
- Love and Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Divide - February 25, 2021
- Ayahuasca and the Power of Forgiveness - December 14, 2016
Anja Loizaga-Velder, PhD is clinical psychologist who has been investigating the therapeutic potential of the ritual use of psychedelic plants for twenty years. She is Director of Research and Psychotherapy at the Nierika Institute in Mexico.
Latest posts by Anja Loizaga-Velder, Ph.D. (see all)
- How the Amazonian Tea Ayahuasca Affects Mental Health - July 12, 2017
- Is Ayahuasca an Effective Therapeutic Tool for Addiction Treatment? - April 19, 2017
Larry Norris, MA, PhD Candidate is the co-founder and executive director of ERIE 501(c)(3), a group dedicated to the development of entheogenic education and integration models.
Latest posts by Larry Norris, MA (see all)
- Why a Culture of Integration is Critical For the Modern Psychedelic Movement - September 27, 2017
Leopardo Yawa Bane was born in the indigenous land Kaxinawá of Rio Jordão, in the state of the Acre, Brazil. He left the Amazon to better learn how to lead his people through our modern times and has been traveling the world leading healing ceremonies for the last 10 years
Latest posts by Leopardo Yawa Bane (see all)
- My Degree Is From The Forest - June 27, 2017
Martin Fortier is a doctoral student at Institut Jean Nicod (Paris) and a visiting student researcher at Stanford University. His research investigates the interplay between neurobiological and cultural processes in hallucinogenic experiences.
Latest posts by Martin Fortier, Ph.D. (C) (see all)
- Are Psychedelic Hallucinations Actually Metaphorical Perceptions? - April 19, 2017
Miroslav Horák, Ph.D. is research assistant at the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno. He focuses on ethnobotanicals, medical anthropology, and drug addiction treatment.
Latest posts by Miroslav Horák, Ph.D. (see all)
- Ayahuasca in the Heart of Europe - July 25, 2017
Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and author specializing in psychospiritual development, with particular expertise in psychedelic psychotherapy. He is author of the book Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritua Development.
Latest posts by Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D (see all)
- How I Completed My Childhood at Burning Man with Psychedelic Mushrooms - August 18, 2017
Dr. Paul Glue is a clinical psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Pedro Musalem is a chilean medical doctor and doctor in social anthropology, currently working on the fields of public health and medical psychedelia. He has worked as a researcher in Takiwasi, in 2005, and lived with the Siona people in 2013/2014.
Latest posts by Pedro Musalem, Ph.D (see all)
- Drinking Yagé to Resist Capitalist Violence - September 11, 2017
Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety. She was in private psychotherapy practice for thirty-five years. Visit her online at www.ListeningToAyahuasca.com.
Latest posts by Rachel Harris, Ph.D. (see all)
- The Therapeutic Potential of Ayahuasca - June 5, 2017
Rob Heffernan is an independent researcher and activist who has been involved in the vegetalismo and Santo Daime ayahuasca traditions for 17 years. He was a member and chairman of the Santo Daime US legal committee for a number of years, and he is Program Director of the Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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Sidarta Ribeiro. Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Researches memory, sleep & dreams, neural plasticity, psychedelics, and drug policy. Member of Chacruna's Advisory Board.
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Dr. Stacy B. Schaefer is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico. She has researched and published on peyote among the Huichol Indians and the Native American Church for more than three decades.
Latest posts by Stacy B. Schaefer, Ph.D. (see all)
- Mrs. Amada Cardenas: Keeper of the Peyote Gardens - November 20, 2019
- Peyote: Plant Medicine for the Body, Mind and Soul - April 18, 2017
is full professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and and research director at the D'Or Institute for Research and Education. Professor Rehen is focused on neurological diseases and drug discovery by using induced pluripotent stem cells.
Latest posts by Stevens Rehen, Ph.D. (see all)
- What Happens to Your Brain Cells After They Meet Ayahuasca? - May 23, 2017
Dr. Tanya Maté is the Integration Director with the Temple of the Way of Light. She works with and oversees a network of integration providers who provide support for people post-ayahuasca experience.
Latest posts by Dr. Tanya Maté (see all)
- Taking Charge of Your Ayahuasca Integration - June 19, 2017
Vanja Dakic finished PhD at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, supervised by Professor Steven Rehen. She investigated biological effects of the psychoactive components of plant tea Ayahuasca using in vitro models of human nervous system.
Latest posts by Vanja Dakic, Ph.D. (see all)
- What Happens to Your Brain Cells After They Meet Ayahuasca? - May 23, 2017
Martin Terry, DVM, Ph.D., works on plants and their physiological effects on humans. He exhibits an inordinant fondness for tackling multifaceted ethnobotanical, ecological, economic, regulatory and conservation problems involving plants.
Latest posts by Martin Terry, DVM, Ph.D. (see all)
- Cactus Conservation Institute Clarification Note about Decriminalize Nature Claims - June 14, 2022
- A Word in Edgewise About the Sustainability of Peyote - May 12, 2020
- Peyote in the United States: Prisoner of War as the War Wanes - November 20, 2017
Ismail L. Ali, JD, currently works as Policy & Advocacy Counsel for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), presently serves as Chair of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy Board of Directors, and is licensed to practice law in the state of California.
Latest posts by Ismail L. Ali, J.D. (see all)
- Is Medicalization the Only Way to Legalize Psilocybin and Ibogaine? - October 31, 2018
- A New Era of Psychedelic Policy? - December 18, 2017
Kim P. C. Kuypers, Ph.D., works at Maastricht University where she studies the acute and longer term effects of psychedelics on cognitive processes, empathy, and mood, in a naturalistic and experimental setting.
Latest posts by Kim P. C. Kuypers, Ph.D. (see all)
- Getting at the Root of Ayahuasca’s Therapeutic Potential - May 17, 2018
Philippe Lucas PhD(c) is a Graduate Researcher with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and VP, Patient Research & Access at Tilray, a federally-authorized medical cannabis company located in Nanaimo, BC.
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The Union of traditional Yagé Medics of the Colombian Amazon (UMIYAC) is an indigenous organization representing Siona, Cofán, Inga, Kamentsá, and Coreguaje spiritual authorities. www.umiyac.org
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Ernesto Evanjuanoy is a member of the Inga people, a traditial doctor, and president of the UMIYAC since 2016. www.umiyac.org
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- Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine - February 5, 2018
Riccardo Vitale, Ph.D., anthropologist, ethnographer, and indigenous rights expert. Adviser for the UMIYAC since 2016.
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- Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine - February 5, 2018
Nidia Olvera-Hernández is a historian and anthropologist who studies psychoactive substances. She has a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary history at the Mora Institute and works as Research Associate at Chacruna Latinoamérica in México.
Latest posts by Nidia Olvera-Hernández, Ph.D. (see all)
- United Nations on Psychedelics. The World Drug Report 2023 and the Renewed Interest in Psychotropics Substances - August 24, 2023
- Old Uses of Peyote in Traditional Mexican Medicine and its Inclusion in Official Pharmacopeia - July 5, 2023
- We Must Continue Calling the Cannabis Plant “Marijuana” - February 19, 2018
Sharon Rafferty, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a registered yoga teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She offers both traditional psychotherapy and yoga therapy and is the founder of The Collective, Inc., where she facilitates wellness workshops and mindfulness retreats.
Latest posts by Sharon Rafferty, Ph.D. (see all)
- Integration: Psychedelics, Spirituality and the Ego - February 12, 2018
Alli Feduccia, Ph.D. is a Neuropharmacologist working as a Clinical Data Scientist at MAPS Public Benefit Corporation. She is also Co-Founder and Director of Psychedelic Support, an online platform to connect with mental health professionals.
Latest posts by Alli Feduccia, Ph.D (see all)
- Psychedelic Support: Innovation through Use of Technology - September 27, 2018
- Do Psychedelics Have the Power to Change Minds? - July 7, 2018
- Psychedelic Support Network Seeking Volunteer Candidate - March 14, 2018
Adam Snider is a PsyD candidate in Los Angeles, CA. He works as a therapist and research associate at La Maida Institute, focusing on mind-body interventions for psychological and gastrointestinal health.
Latest posts by Adam Snider PsyD (C) (see all)
- Psychedelics Panel Invited to Mainstream Healthcare Conference - March 16, 2018
Céu da Santa Maria, or Centro Eclético da Fluente Luz Universal Cristi Céu da Santa Maria, is a Santo Daime Church based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Matt “River” Baldwin, MFT, is a psychotherapist and musician living in San Francisco. He is a graduate of the Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapies and Research Program at CIIS and writes about music for Chacruna.
Latest posts by Matt "River" Baldwin, MFT (see all)
- The Greater Mysteries of Plant Music - December 23, 2019
- Sonic Journeys: An Interview with Byron Metcalf - September 25, 2019
- High Holy Strangeness: A Playlist for Ketamine by Eric Sienknecht - March 20, 2019
Lígia Duque Platero has a PhD in Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro. She researches shamanisms and ayahuasca religions. She is Chacruna’s Education Program Associate.
Latest posts by Ligia Duque Platero, Ph.D. (see all)
- Forest Medicines and Global Alliances Between the Yawanawá People and Santo Daime - August 9, 2024
- A Homosexual Marriage Experience in Santo Daime - October 22, 2019
- The Muká Diet of the Yawanawá Indigenous People in Acre, Brazil - May 28, 2018
Maíra Dias is a Doctoral candidate and Master in Religion Studies at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil. Museologist and pedagogue. Member of the Nucleus of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) and Grupo de Pesquisa RAÌZES (UFPB).
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Filipe Silva Ribeiro has a master in anthropology in Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Brazil.
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- New Urban Practices Around Kambô - July 25, 2018
Emily Sinclair is an anthropology Ph.D (C) candidate studying ayahuasca shamanism in Loreto, Peru. She is a member of Chacruna’s Ayahuasca Community Committee and led the Sexual Abuse Awareness initiative.
Latest posts by Emily Sinclair, Ph.D (C) (see all)
- Breaking Convention Conference Lives Up to Its Psychedelic Reputation - May 31, 2023
- Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines - February 8, 2022
- Iquitos, Capital of Ayahuasca, Struggles During COVID - October 19, 2020
Charles Grob, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine.Over the last thirty years he has conducted approved research with MDMA, psilocybin and ayahuasca.
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Paulo C R Barbosa, Ph.D., is Professor the Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz (UESC). Over the last 20 years he has conducted psychological and neuropsychological assessments of ayahuasca users, and has participated in preclinical studies evaluating the effects of ayahuasca on abuse of drugs.
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Andrew Dawson, Ph.D., is Professor of Modern Religion in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. He obtained his doctorate at Oxford University and has degrees in social science and religious studies.
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Marc Blainey’s research and publications bridge psychotherapy and the anthropology of religion amidst regional expertise with cultures of Europe, North America, Amazonia, and Mesoamerica. He holds a Ph.D. from Tulane University (New Orleans, USA).
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- When Jesus Meets Ayahuasca: Sample Texts from Christ Returns From the Jungle - February 1, 2022
Michelle Thiessen is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology at The University of British Columbia. She researches the association between cannabis and mental health with a focus on acute pain.
Latest posts by Michelle Thiessen, Ph.D. (C) (see all)
- Using Cannabis to Treat the Effects of Trauma - September 5, 2018
Zach Walsh, Ph.D., leads the Therapeutic Recreational and Problematic Substance Use lab at UBC where he runs several studies of cannabis and mental health, including a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of cannabis for PTSD.
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- Using Cannabis to Treat the Effects of Trauma - September 5, 2018
Adam Knowles, PgDip, is a member of Chacruna’s Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities Working Group. He is a London-based existential psychotherapist following 20+ years leading technology teams.
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- Report: Ayahuasca Symposium UK - June 26, 2019
- Psychedelics and Blockchain: Two Technologies Key to Our Future - January 9, 2019
- Ayahuasca to help victims of genocide in Iraq? - September 19, 2018
Erik Davis is an independent scholar and lecturer. He is the author, most recently, of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. He hosts the weekly podcast Expanding Mind, and earned his PhD from Rice University.
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- Capitalism on Psychedelics: The Mainstreaming of an Underground - September 25, 2018
Christopher W. Fagg, Ph.D., botanist, worked at Oxford University and is now a professor at Brasília University (UnB) in the postgraduate program in botany. He has experience with taxonomy, forest ecology, and medicinal plants in Africa and South America.
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- The Urgent Need to Review the Botanical Classification of the Ayahuasca Vine - September 27, 2018
Julia Sonsin Oliveira, forest engineer, has a forest science Ph.D. from UNESP. She is a professor at Brasília University (UnB). Her work focuses on wood identification, ecological and comparative wood anatomy, axial variation, and taxonomy.
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- The Urgent Need to Review the Botanical Classification of the Ayahuasca Vine - September 27, 2018
Matteo Politi has a Ph.D. in natural product chemistry, with a specialization in naturopathy, and is Director of Research at Takiwasi Center. He has published in various peer-reviewed scientific journals and popular magazines on topics related to phytochemistry, herbal medicine, and holistic therapies.
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- Healing and Knowledge with Amazonian Shamanic Diet - September 27, 2018
Daniela Peluso, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and an Emeritus Fellow at the University of Kent. She specializes in the anthropology of lowland South America. She is a member of Chacruna's Board.
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- Chacruna Survey Results on the Awareness of Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Settings - January 31, 2023
- Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas: A Respectful Path Forward for the Psychedelic Movement - April 23, 2022
- Creating Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Ayahuasca Communities: A Review of Chacruna’s Guidelines - February 8, 2022
Erika Dyck, Ph.D. (History), is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, and a Canada Research Chair in the History of Health & Social Justice.Erika is also part of Chacruna’s Board of Directors and hosts the two series “Women in the History of Psychedelic Plant Medicines" and "Global History of Psychedelics."
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- Introduction to Women and Psychedelics - July 26, 2024
- Global History of Psychedelics: A Chacruna Series - October 4, 2023
- Can Psychedelics Promote Social Justice and Change the World? - August 30, 2021
Vilmarie Fraguada Narloch, PsyD, is a psychologist and harm reductionist working to end the War on Drugs. She is the drug education manager at SSDP and is currently pursuing a certificate in psychedelic therapies and research from CIIS.
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Frederico Policarpo is professor of Anthropology in the undergraduate course of Public Policy and in the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law, at the Federal Fluminense University, and author of “The drug consumption and its controls: a comparative perspective between the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and San Francisco, US” (ed. Consequencia, 2016).
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Kufikiri Imara is from Oakland, California. At his core he is a creative and a healer. His personal journey of self-healing leads him to empower others to do the same.
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- The Psychedelic Renaissance Will Be Decided By Access - November 14, 2018
Annie Oak is the founder of the Women's Visionary Congress (WVC) https://www.visionarycongress.org/ and the Full Circle Tea House. She is the co-founder of Take 3 Presents, an event production company.
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- A Collective Open Apology for Response to Racist Language in the Women and Psychedelics Forum - December 3, 2018
- Radical Risk Reduction For Event And Community Organizers - November 17, 2018
Mariavittoria Mangini, Ph.D., FNP, has written extensively on the impact of psychedelic experiences in shaping the lives of her contemporaries and worked closely with many of the most distinguished investigators in this field.
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Jodie Evans is co-founder of CODEPINK and founding board member of Drug Policy Alliance. She has a 45-year relationship with psychedelics; they have provided healing and visions towards world peace.
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Veronika Gold is a psychedelic activist. She is a co-therapist and sub-investigator in MAPS Clinical Program for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy and she is a co-fonder and therapist at Polaris Insight Center.
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- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
- Ambassadors to Hidden Territories: Set and Setting in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy - December 13, 2018
Annette Williams is chair of the Women’s Spirituality program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Research interest has centered on women’s spiritual power and agency within the Yorùbá Ifá tradition.
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- Women, Spirituality, and Plant-Based Medicines - December 18, 2018
Sara Reed, MS, MFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in New Haven, CT. As a socially-minded therapist, she works to advance health equity and upward social mobility for Black Americans.
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- The Damage of White Feminism: An Anecdote - January 10, 2019
Thiago Rodrigues is a Profesor at the Institute for the Strategic Studies (INEST) of the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has published several articles, book chapters and books on drug-trafficking and security focusing on Latin America. He is one of the founders of NEIP and member of Chacruna's Advisory Board.
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Ariel Vegosen is an inclusivity and diversity expert, educator, trainer, workshop facilitator, coach, consultant, ritualist, and writer. Ariel is the founder and director of Gender Illumination (www.genderillumination.com) and CEO of Shine (ShineDiversity.com).
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- The Role of Psychedelics in the Midst of a Pandemic and the Fight for Black Lives - October 12, 2020
- Psychedelic Privilege: Report from the Women and Psychedelics Forum - February 7, 2019
Dee Adams holds a Masters of Science in Public Health. She is an HIV researcher, global difference maker, shamanic advisor, ceremony facilitator, and a transgender woman. She makes her home in the USA and South Africa. www.journeyswithdee.com
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Jason Butler, Ph.D., is a core faculty member in the Holistic Counseling Psychology program at John F. Kennedy University and a licensed Psychologist practicing in Oakland. Jason is passionate about providing opportunities for expanding accessibility to holistic healing modalities.
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- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
- Blinded by the White: Addressing Power and Privilege in Psychedelic Medicine - March 13, 2019
Rebekah is a Psychology and Anthropology major. She is interested in preserving indigenous ceremonial practices, protecting plant medicines and the marriage between psychology and spirituality.
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Britta Love is a somatic sex educator, writer and healer currently completing a research-based memoir about healing and awakening through conscious sexual practice and psychedelic ritual. www.BrittaLoved.com
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- What Could a Conscious, Psychedelic #MeToo Look Like? - March 29, 2019
Lebert Lester III is from Manchester, CT. He has his B.A. in psychology from Morehouse College. He is a research assistant at Uconn’s Culture and Mental Health Disparities Lab.
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- Psychedelic Research and You. Well, Maybe, not You - April 10, 2019
Kathryn L. Tucker, JD, is Executive Director of the End of Life Liberty Project, an advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the terminally ill. She teaches law, medicine, and ethics at the end of life at leading law schools.
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Shelby Hartman is Editor-in-Chief of DoubleBlind, a newly launched magazine magazine on psychedelics. She has reported on psychedelics and plant medicine for VICE, Rolling Stone, Quartz, and Chacruna, among others.
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- Where are all the Queer People? - November 13, 2019
- Why We’re Starting the Conversation Around Queerness and Psychedelics - April 16, 2019
Kylea Taylor, MS, MFT, writes, teaches, and consults about her unique InnerEthics™ model. She wrote The Ethics of Caring and is a senior trainer for the Grof Transpersonal Training. KyleaTaylor.com.
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- Our Vulnerabilities to Unethical Sexual Behavior - April 26, 2019
Gabriel Amezcua is a Mexican anthropologist and conflict mediator specializing in harm reduction, gender studies and psychedelic therapy. He currently resides in Berlin doing research in mental health and masculinities.
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Sandra Lucia Goulart has a PhD in social sciences from UNICAMP. She is a professor at the Cásper Líbero College in São Paulo and has published several books and articles about drug use.
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- The Use of Psychoactive Plants in the Americas - September 11, 2019
Brad Bartlett is an attorney in Denver, Colorado and member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants. For more information on Brad go to: www.bartlettlawpractice.com
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- DEA and the Religious Exemption: A Fox Guarding the Henhouse - October 13, 2020
Elizabeth Arnold is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Greenwich Village.She holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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- A Clinical Psychologist’s First Experience with Ayahuasca - July 22, 2019
Mike Jay is a historian who has written widely about the history of medicine and drugs. His books include High Society: Mind-altering drugs in history and culture and Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic.
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- A Century of Mescaline - April 30, 2021
- The Encounter That Introduced Peyote to Western Science - August 9, 2019
Jeanna Eichenbaum is a psychotherapist in private practice in San Francisco, specializing in issues of alternative sexuality and relationship models such as polyamory and BDSM, LGBTQQIA support, relationship work, and trauma and PTSD treatment.
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- Queer Voices Speak to the New Psychedelia - September 18, 2019
- Dissolving the Binary: The Queerness of Psychedelics - October 9, 2018
Klarissa Platero has a PhD in Sociology and is a professor at the Department of Public Security at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Rio de Janeiro. She researches violent deaths and cycling safety.
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- A Homosexual Marriage Experience in Santo Daime - October 22, 2019
Giorgio Samorini is an Italian ethnobotanist specialized on psychoactive plants and mushrooms. He developed field research among native groups of Africa, Asia and Americas. He authored many scientific papers and books published in different languages.
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- Fake News About Ayahuasca’s Archeological Antiquity - November 5, 2019
Anya Ermakova, Ph.D. is a conservation biologist, researching peyote ecology in the USA with Prof. Martin Terry. She is part of Chacruna’s Board of Directors and Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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Luís Fernando Tófoli, M.D., Ph.D., is a psychiatrist and professor of Psychiatry at the University of Campinas, Brazil. He is the head of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation for Ayahuasca Research and Outreach (ICARO) and a member of Chacruna’s Ayahuasca Community Committee.
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- How Many Ayahuasca Drinkers Are There in Brazil? - November 8, 2019
Sean Lawlor is a writer and graduate student of Transpersonal Counseling at Naropa University. He currently writes about psychedelics for Chacruna and Psychedelics Today, and he is grateful to be a member of the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI).
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Amy Emerson is the executive director and Director of Clinical Research of MAPS Public Benefit Corporation. She has worked in clinical development and research beginning in 1993 and applies her experience to all facets of MAPS drug development programs.
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- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
Mellody Hayes, MD is the CEO of Transformational Wellness, a psychedelic medicine clinic in Oakland.She is a graduate of Harvard College and UCSF medical school.She is a physician-writer and resiliency coach who loves dancing.
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- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
Kelan Thomas, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCPP is Associate Professor of Clinical Sciences at Touro University California College of Pharmacy and a psychiatric pharmacist practicing in Oakland and San Francisco. He is curator of Chacruna’s social media “Science Sunday” series.
Latest posts by Kelan Thomas, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCPP (see all)
- How Do Psychiatric Medications Interact with MDMA or Psilocybin? - July 21, 2022
- Risks of Serotonin Syndrome when Combining Psychedelics with Antidepressants - October 1, 2021
- When Ayahuasca Microdosing Might Cause Serotonin Toxicity - May 24, 2021
Leandro Altheman Lopes is a journalist based in Cruzeiro do Sul-Acre, author of the book: Muká: The Root of Dreams. He is a master’s candidate in anthropology.
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- Kambô, Rapé and Sananga: A Reset on Body, Mind and Vision - February 18, 2020
Steven Benally is an enrolled Dine' from Sweetwater, Navajo Nation. He helps organize the Annual Spiritual Pilgrimage for his Dine people to the native home of their medicine in the desert. He is a founding member of IPCI.
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- Native American Statement Regarding Decriminalization of Peyote - March 30, 2020
Arlen Lightfoot is President ofthe Native American Church of Oklahoma. He is a United States Navy Veteran. He sits on the Board of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative and is part of the National Council of Native American Churches.
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The National Council consists of legitimate, indigenous member organizations that include the Native American Church of North America, the Azzee’ Bee Nahaga of Dine’ Nation, the Native American Church of the State of Oklahoma, the Native American Church of the State of South Dakota, and invited leaders of the Consejo Regional Wixarika of Mexico.
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Bernd Brabec de Mori, Ph.D, is cultural anthropologist and musicologist at the University of Graz. His main research areas are music, health, and wellbeing, music and ritual, as well as Indigenous music, especially in the Amazon lowlands.
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- Is Ayahuasca Possibly Less than Five Hundred Years Old? - June 18, 2020
- Urgent Action Needed: COVID-19 Pandemic Devastating Amazonia - May 15, 2020
- Humankind Crowned – Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Virus - April 2, 2020
Chaikuni is a student of Amazonian Plant Medicine in the Shipibo Tradition. He also leads men’s retreats and coaches high impact individuals. Instagram: chaikuniwitan
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- The Virus, Ayahuasca, Grief, and Hope - April 14, 2020
Rosalía Acosta López is a psychologist from La Salle University, Puebla, and has been based in Huautla de Jiménez for 20 years. She currently organizes community reading circles for children in Huautla de Jiménez.
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- Niños Santos, Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Renaissance - November 12, 2020
- Mazatec Perspectives on the Globalization of Psilocybin Mushrooms - May 6, 2020
Sarai Piña Alcántara graduated with a degree in ethnology from the National Faculty of Anthropology and History. She studies social anthropology at CIESAS-CDMX. She has conduced research in the area for 15 years.
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- Niños Santos, Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Renaissance - November 12, 2020
- Mazatec Perspectives on the Globalization of Psilocybin Mushrooms - May 6, 2020
Elizabeth Bast is a Bwiti initiate, iboga provider with the Ibogasoul team, and coach specializing in holistic recovery and sacred medicine integration. She is the author of Heart Medicine: A True Love Story - One Couple's Quest for the Sacred Iboga Medicine & the Cure for Addiction.
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- Expanded Access to the Art of Integration - May 20, 2020
Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg is a social scientist studying and intervening in the relationships between science and society. She currently explores medicalization and other models to reintegrate psychedelics into society. Twitter: @ReMedPsy.
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Cristiana Vale Pires is graduated in psychology, MSc and PhD in Anthropology. She is a founding-member of Kosmicare Association and a researcher at CEDH – FEP of the Portuguese Catholic University.
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- Traveling Without Moving During COVID-19 Lockdown - May 26, 2020
Mareesa Stertz is a filmmaker, community organizer, and kundalini yoga teacher.She is the Media Director at Lucid.News, programs events for the Aware Project, and has several documentaries streaming on GaiaTV.
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Matthew Baggott, PhD, is a data science leader and neuroscientist who has pioneered research on how psychedelics affect people for over two decades. He was previously a director at Genentech.
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- What Do Psychedelic Medicine Companies Owe to the Community? - June 11, 2020
Belinda is of Dine’ (Navajo) and A:shiwi (Pueblo of Zuni) descent. She is the founder of Kaalogii, which focuses on cultural and traditional teaching and inner healing.She holds degrees in Health Sciences, Technology, and Occupational and Environmental Health.
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Nicolas Langlitz is associate professor of anthropology at The New School in New York. He is the author of Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain.
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- Should Psychedelic Humanities Promote Psychedelic Humanism? - August 3, 2020
Jordana Grader is the co-founder of Healers Resilience Fund. She has been a student of Traditional Amazonian Medicine for over 10 years. She holds a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology from CIIS and is trained in Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy and the Hendricks Coaching Method.Her primary teacher is Nature.
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- Urgency of Community Aid in the Mental Health Crisis - July 15, 2020
Ashleigh Murphy-Beiner is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist and member of the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College working on the Psilocybin for Depression clinical trial in London.
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- Profitdelic: A New Psychedelic Conference Trend - July 20, 2020
Henrique Fernandes Antunes has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of São Paulo. Researcher of the International Postdoctoral Program of the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). He is part of Chacruna’s Ayahuasca Community Committee.
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- Where Is the Psychedelic Movement Headed Next? - October 15, 2024
- Is Mainstreaming Psychedelics a Good Thing? - June 7, 2024
- Music and Body in the Brazilian Santo Daime Tradition - May 8, 2024
Glauber Loures de Assis has a PhD in Sociology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). He is also the leader of the Santo Daime Church Céu da Divina Estrela.
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- Introduction to Women and Psychedelics - July 26, 2024
- Eight Frequently Asked Questions About Ayahuasca Globalization - February 13, 2024
- Ten Tips for Standing in Solidarity with Indigenous People and Plant Medicines - January 18, 2024
Juliana Mulligan has been an active member of the Ibogaine community for eight years and holds a B.A. in Psychology. She runs Inner Vision Ibogaine, supporting people in preparation for, and in integration after, treatment. She is also the Psychedelic Program Coordinator at the Center for Optimal Living.
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- Abuses and Lack of Safety in the Ibogaine Community - August 10, 2020
Yuri Motta is a Doctorate student at the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil He is also a member of INCT-InEAC (Institute for Comparative Studies in Conflict Management) and PsicoCult (Center for Studies in Psychoactive and Culture).
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- The Fight for Medical Marijuana in Brazil - August 25, 2020
Jasmine Virdi is a freelance writer and editor. Since 2018, she has worked for the independent publishing company Synergetic Press. She also serves as a writer for Chacruna, Psychedelics Today, and Lucid News.
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- The Emergent Field of Psychedelic Chaplaincy - April 19, 2022
- Preparing Ourselves for the Psychedelic Future with Berra Yazar-Klosinski - November 3, 2021
- Stewarding Psychedelic and Ecological Biospheric Wisdom with Deborah Parrish Snyder - October 13, 2021
Laura Pérez Gil is a professor of anthropology and director of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at the Federal University of Paraná. She carried out research on social organization and shamanism among the Yaminawa of the Peruvian Amazon.
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- Yaminawa Women and Ayahuasca: Shamanism, Gender, and History in the Peruvian Amazon - February 2, 2022
- Ayahuasca Makes you See, and Tobacco Makes You Dream - September 14, 2020
Pancho perez es antropologo
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Mary, pseudonym, a woman from the Global North in her thirties.
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- Dating My Ayahuasca Shaman: Sex, Power, and Consent - September 28, 2020
Zoë Dubus is a french PhD in history of medicine. She studies the transformations of medical practices and health policies in relation to the medical use of psychotropics drugs, from the 19th century until the present. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan studying the role of women therapists in the development of novel techniques to facilitate psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in the 1950s-1960s.
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Jonathan Dickinson has been working with ibogaine since 2009. He is the former director of the Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance (GITA), and has a private practice called Ceiba Ibogaine Therapy.
https://www.ceibaibogaine.com
https://www.ceibaibogaine.com
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- Why Ibogaine Is Not the Answer to the Opioid Crisis - September 29, 2020
Dimitri Mugianis has worked for nearly two decades with ibogaine and other psychedelics. He is known for his pioneering work with harm reduction, as a writer, poet, musician, and activist.
https://www.dimitrimugianis.com
https://www.dimitrimugianis.com
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- Why Ibogaine Is Not the Answer to the Opioid Crisis - September 29, 2020
Alex Polari de Alverga is a Brazilian writer, poet, and essayist. He is also the curator of CEDOC - Center for Documentation and Memory, and member of the Doctrinal Council of ICEFLU - Church of the Eclectic Cult of the Universal Fluent Light. He resides in Céu do Mapiá, in the Amazon rainforest.
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- Remembering an Ayahuasca Hero: Domingos Bernardo (1941-2020) - October 6, 2020
An attorney with Guidant Law, Gary Smith is at the forefront of psychedelics and cannabis and law in Arizona. He authored Psychedelica Lex, the first book examining laws governing psychedelics.
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- A New Supreme Court RFRA Ruling May Be a Boon to Psychedelic Religions - January 21, 2021
- Cannabis and Psychedelics: Vote and Change the Laws! - October 5, 2020
Alex Dymock, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her current research focus is on intersections of sexuality and drug use.
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- Acid and Orgasms: Why LSD Failed to Sexually Liberate Women - October 7, 2020
Yahav Erez is a graduate of the Science, Technology & Society program at Bar Ilan University (MA), and is interested in the formation of local knowledge regarding the safe and beneficial use of psychedelics. Founder of the Israel chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and of Toda’a Raba, the first Psychedelic Podcast in Hebrew (together with Matan Ben Mosh).
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- Israel’s Psychedelic Community and Jerusalem’s Protesters Join Forces - October 9, 2020
Martha Hartney is an attorney in Boulder and owns the boutique estate planning firm, Hartney Law, LLC. She is a mother and a death doula, and a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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- Untangling Viewpoints: Getting to Yes on the Natural Medicine Health Act - October 6, 2022
- DEA Denies Soul Quest’s Religious Exemption: Impacts on the Ayahuasca Community - June 21, 2021
- DEA and the Religious Exemption: A Fox Guarding the Henhouse - October 13, 2020
Patrick Barber lives in Buena Vista, Saskatchewan, Canada and works full-time as an Indigenous Health Policy Analyst. His book Psychedelic Revolutionaries recounts Saskatchewan's psychedelic research in the 1950s and 60s and the related work and theories of Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, and Duncan Blewett.
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- Of Mediums and Mind-Manifestors: Eileen Garrett and Psychedelic Experience - October 14, 2020
Chris Elcock is an award-wining independent historian of psychedelics who has recently co-founded the Lyon Psychedelic Society. He is finishing a book on the social history of psychedelics in NYC.
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- Lauretta Bender: Seminal Psychiatrist & Forgotten Psychedelic Pioneer - April 29, 2021
- Nina Graboi, A Forgotten Woman in Psychedelic Lore - October 21, 2020
Cash Ahenakew holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ Well-being at the University British Columbia. He is a member of Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation. He examines the interfaces between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing, sensing and being.
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- A Collective Call for Accountability in Plant Medicine Experiences - October 23, 2020
Rene Suša is a post-doctoral researcher at UBC. His research addresses problematic patterns of engagement with Indigenous communities, especially in relation to colonial continuities in plant medicine experiences.
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- A Collective Call for Accountability in Plant Medicine Experiences - October 23, 2020
Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change at UBC. She comes from a mixed heritage family. Her work examines how we can hospice modernity-coloniality in generative ways.
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- A Collective Call for Accountability in Plant Medicine Experiences - October 23, 2020
Andrew Penn, MS, PMHNP is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, a professor at UC San Francisco, a psychedelic psychotherapy researcher, and a nationally invited speaker.
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- How I Joined the Secret SSRI Circles of 1985 - September 14, 2021
- A Nurse’s Call for Keeping the Human in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - October 29, 2020
Marcelo Leite, PhD, former Nieman Fellow (Harvard), a science journalist in Brazil, writes the blog Virada Psicodélica. His book “Psiconautas - Viagens com a Ciência Psicodélica Brasileira” came out in May 2021. Leite sits on the Chacruna Advisory Board.
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- Santo Daime ‘Padrinho’ in Rio Faces Accusation of Sexual Harassment - November 5, 2024
- The Golden Decade of Psychedelic Therapy in Argentina - October 18, 2024
- Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with MDMA Stumbles Over Pharmacological Dogma - July 8, 2024
Wendy Kline, Ph.D., is the Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine at Purdue University and the author of four major books on topics ranging from the history of eugenics to reproductive rights.
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- Remembering to Forget: How the UK Disappeared from the Psychedelic Map - November 17, 2023
- A Historian’s Reflection on Music and Psychedelics - December 16, 2020
Marcos García de Teresa has a PHD in social anthropology from the EHESS in France and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa, Mexico. He has done fieldwork in Huautla since 2009.
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- Psilocybin Mushrooms in Mexico in Danger of Extinction - July 9, 2021
- Seeking a True Shaman in the Sierra Mazateca - March 8, 2021
The Wixárika Regional Council for the Defense of Wirikuta, integrating the Traditional, Civil and Agrarian Authorities of the Communities of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, San Sebastián Teponahuaxtlán and Tuxpan of Mezquitic and Bolaños municipalities, Jalisco state, and Bancos de San Hipólito in Mezquital municipality, Durango state, Mexico.
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Naomi Rendina (@NaomiRendina) recently earned her PhD in History from Case Western Reserve University. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences at California State University, East Bay, and is the Social Media Coordinator for the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy (@histpharm) and the Points Blog (the blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, @PointsADHS).
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- Abortion, Plants, & Whispered Networks of Botanical Knowledge - January 6, 2021
Nora Jaffary is a historian of Mexican gender history. She teaches in Concordia University’s History Department in Montréal and is writing a book on the history of abortion in Mexico.
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- Medicinal Abortions in Mexican History: Botanical Knowledge Retained - January 13, 2021
Connie Littlefield is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. She has an MFA degree in filmmaking from NSCAD University and works as a writer, researcher and producer on films of all kinds.
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- Better Living Through Chemistry - March 3, 2021
Magdalena Tanev is a British-born, Colombia-based writer and editor. She currently works at the digital PR firm Publicize and is the co-host of the Brains Byte Back podcast.
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- How Colombian Yagé Communities Confronted the COVID-19 Pandemic - March 1, 2021
Lucas Maia has a master’s degree in psychopharmacology and a PhD in mental health. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation for Ayahuasca Research and Outreach (ICARO).
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- Ayahuasca, Severe Illnesses, and the Mystery of Death - January 22, 2021
Darron T. Smith, Ph.D, teaches is a NCCPA-certified physician assistant and faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Memphis. He is a member of Chacruna’s Racial Equity and Access Committee.
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- Is Psychedelic Medicine the Antidote to Anti-Black White Racism in the US? - January 18, 2021
Tal Davidson is a PhD student in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology program at York University in Toronto. His current work explores Ecopsychology as a framework that combines social and ecological justice with personal healing and psychotherapeutics.
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- Betty Eisner: Heroine with a Hitch? - March 17, 2021
Katherine A. Costello, PhD, is a transformational coach specializing in gender, sexuality, and psychedelic preparation/integration. She brings together feminist/queer/transgender theory and heartfelt mindfulness to help her clients live the fullest expression of themselves, even in the face of systemic oppression.
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- Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics - March 16, 2021
Marca Cassity, BSN, LMFT, is a two-spirit trauma therapist specializing in Native American and queer-related trauma. They are trained by MAPS in MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and are part of two MDMA-assisted psychotherapy research studies.
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- Why Oneness is Not Incompatible with Identity Politics - March 16, 2021
Stephanie Schmitz is the Betsy Gordon Archivist for Psychoactive Substances Research at the Purdue University Archives, working closely with donors in transferring materials to the Archives, facilitating access and use of these materials, and collaborating with educators to incorporate these materials into their teaching.
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Grace Cepe (she/her) is part of the Chacruna Chronicles editorial team and is the Communications Associate for MAPS. Her interests are psychedelic healing and social and racial justice activism.
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Justin Ayala (he/him) is a 24 year old queer, Latinx and Filipinx guy from North California. He loves writing and photography, and he’s an aspiring scientist and psychedelic researcher.
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Dr. Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies), an avid spiritual practitioner, and Founder of the online School of Indian Wisdom where he teaches the rich philosophical, mythological, and spiritual traditions of ancient India.
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- Soma and the Sacred Feminine: Reflections from Ancient Indian Myth - March 31, 2021
Reilly Capps's drugs reporting has been in the Washington Post, DoubleBlind, Chacruna, and The MAPS Bulletin. His reporting for Rooster catalyzed the world's first psychedelic decriminalization vote in Denver.
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- Educating Gringos in Shipibo Ways - December 13, 2021
- LSD in the House, Cops at the Door: A Psycholytic Therapist Reflects on Her Darkest Moment - July 28, 2021
- Peer support line helped 16 “bad trippers” avoid the emergency room - June 4, 2021
Roger K. Green is the author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens (Palgrave 2019) and Ayahuasca’s Religious Diaspora in the Wake of the Doctrine of Discovery (2020).
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- On Decolonizing and Psychedelics - April 12, 2021
Geneviève Paiement is a screenwriter, poet and former journalist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry London, The Literary Review of Canada, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Guardian, Vice and elsewhere.
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- Psychedelic Saskatchewan: Kay Parley - April 14, 2021
Elyse Bais is a native CHamoru from Guam where traditional medicine involves indigenous plants and spiritual ceremonies. She now lives in Seattle and is a community advocate for plant medicine.
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Dana Strauss is a doctoral student in clinical psychology working with Dr. Monnica Williams at the University of Ottawa. She is a White Canadian Ashkenazi Jewish settler of European heritage who is devoted to social justice and racial equity related work. She works in the areas of mental health disparities, racism, trauma, and psychedelics.
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- Missing in Action: Where are all the White Allies? - May 12, 2022
- CIA-Funded Research Exploited Black Americans in Search of “Mind-Control” Drug - June 15, 2021
Justin Natoli, JD, LMFT is a psychotherapist, Ketamine-assisted therapist, and Director of the Healing and Growth Center in Los Angeles. He is also working towards a Ph.D. in Psychedelic Studies.
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- How Psychedelics Can Guide the Transformative Journey of Polyamory - April 2, 2024
- Jeering Psychedelics: A Critique of Jacques Mabit’s Criticism of Queering Psychedelics - February 4, 2022
- How Ayahuasca Can Help Gay Men Create Better Dance Parties - June 17, 2021
Kewal Wright, MA, is a writer, researcher, and community organizer located in Phoenix, Arizona. Her writing centers around topics of sexuality, psychedelics, mental health, healing, and spirituality.
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- Can Psychedelics Open Us to Pleasure? - June 25, 2021
Letitia Johnson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan who studies the history of race, ethnicity, and health in Canada. Her dissertation examines Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War through a healthcare lens.
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Joel Anaya is PhD candidate in Social Sciences & Humanities from UAM Cuajimalpa and is currently a professor in the National School of Anthropology and History of México.
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Lana Cook, Ph.D, is a cultural scholar, writing a history of women’s contributions to psychedelic aesthetics. She is also Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives at MIT Open Learning.
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- Psychedelic Motherhood: The Altered States of Birth - July 7, 2021
David Restrepo is Research Director at CESED (Center for the Study of Security and Drugs, UniAndes, Bogotá), where he promotes intercultural research and policy innovation on coca and other entheogens.
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- Can Coca Leaf Avoid the Wrongs of The Psychedelic Revolution? - July 15, 2021
Alicia Danforth Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and researcher. She is the co-investigator for the first pilot study of MDMA-assisted therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in autistic adults.
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Dr. Gabor Maté, M.D., is a renowned speaker and bestselling author. His work focus on a range of topics including addiction, stress, childhood development, and the psychedelic medicine ayahuasca.
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- Deep Ayahuasca Healing and the Truth of Who You Are - March 18, 2017
- The Medicinal and Spiritual Powers of an Amazonian Brew - December 26, 2016
Dr. Claudio Naranjo is a Chilean psychiatrist who was part of the early Esalen Staff, created the International SAT program for personal transformation and has lately been mostly interested in changing Education as a response to the world problematique.
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Jeremy Narby has a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University. He has published 3 books about ayahuasca, shamanism and ecological knowledge, including the book "Psychotropic Mind: The World According to Ayahuasca, Iboga, and Shamanism"
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- Is Ayahuasca an Antidote to Modern Life? - December 26, 2016
Diana Negrín, Ph.D, is a geographer, educator and curator. She currently serves on the board of the Wixárika Research Center and teaches at the University of San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Chacruna.
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- Why Land and Ecology Matter for Global Psychedelics - January 25, 2024
- Coming of Age in the Psychedelic Sixties - March 15, 2022
- Psychedelics, the War on Drugs, and Violence in Latin America - March 10, 2022
Amanda Reiman received her PhD from UC Berkeley and is the Community Manager for Flow Kana and the Secretary of the International Cannabis Farmer’s Association.
Latest posts by Amanda Reiman, Ph.D. (see all)
- How Cannabis and Other “Drugs” Can be Gateways to a Better Life - March 28, 2017
Bruno Rasmussen Chaves is a physician who has been researching and working with ibogaine in Brazil for more than 20 years. He is the former director of the Global Ibogaine Therapists Alliance (GITA). He is also interested in MDMA and other psychedelics.
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Isabel Santana de Rose, Ph.D, is a Brazilian anthropologist and a researcher in the field of the ayahuasca religions and the psychedelic renaissance. She is currently a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis.
Latest posts by Isabel Santana de Rose, Ph.D (see all)
- Forest Medicines and Global Alliances Between the Yawanawá People and Santo Daime - August 9, 2024
- Guarani Shamanism in the University - May 2, 2023
- Esther Jean Langdon: Half a Century of Research About Shamanism and Ayahuasca - December 15, 2021
Oscar Calavia-Sáez - born in La Rioja, Spain, 1959, living in Brazil from 1986 on- is a writer and anthropologist specialized in Amazonian indians and religion.
Latest posts by Oscar Calavia-Sáez, Ph.D. (see all)
- The Indigenous Ayahuasca Universe - November 21, 2016
Dr. Scott Shannon, MD, is a leader and pioneer in the field of Integrative Medicine and Integrative Psychiatry. He has authored four books and trains professionals worldwide.
Latest posts by Dr. Scott Shannon (see all)
- Why I Became a Cannabis Researcher - March 1, 2017
Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Ph.D, is an anthropologist, filmmaker and tenured staff researcher in the Human Sciences Division at the Goeldi Museum in Belém, Brazil. He sits on Chacruna’s Advisory Board.
Latest posts by Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Ph.D. (see all)
- Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon: Tobacco and the hummingbird shamans of Peru - January 27, 2022
- Toé (Brugmansia suaveolens): The Path of Day and Night - June 2, 2020
- Fifty Shades of Green - May 27, 2020
Dena Sharrock is a PhD candidate in Anthropology from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her ethnographic research was carried out at the Temple of the Way of Light, Iquitos, Peru.
Latest posts by Dena Sharrock, Ph.D. (c) (see all)
- Ayahuasca Propaganda and Society’s Addiction to Moral Panic - June 27, 2017
Jordan Sloshower, MD, MSc is a psychiatrist, researcher, and educator whose work focuses on therapeutic applications of psychedelic medicines. He is part of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
Latest posts by Dr. Jordan Sloshower (see all)
- Is Psychiatry Ready for the Psychedelic Healing Paradigm? - March 17, 2017
Dr. Joseph Tafur is a Colombian-American family physician. After post-doctoral research in psychoneuroimmunology, Dr. Tafur trained in ayahuasca shamanism under Shipibo healer Ricardo Amaringo at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual.
Latest posts by Dr. Joe Tafur (see all)
- A Story of Visionary Ayahuasca Healing, DNA and Epigenetics - March 17, 2017
Christopher Timmermann (PhD) is a neuroscientist and psychologist from Santiago, Chile and based at the Centre for Psychedelic Research in Imperial College London, where he conducted the first neuroimaging studies on the effects of DMT. His work focuses on the neuroscience, psychology, beliefs and ethics of the DMT and psychedelic experience.
Latest posts by Christopher Timmermann, Ph.D (see all)
- Navigating a Double-Edged Sword: Toward Psychedelic Apprenticeship - October 13, 2021
- The DMT Experience, The Human Brain & The Science of Consciousness - May 2, 2017
Robin Wright has researched and published widely on indigenous Amazonian shamanism for 30 years. His recent book is entitled "Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon". He is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida.
Latest posts by Robin Wright, Ph.D. (see all)
- Ayahuasca and the Gift of Seeing Through Serpent Eyes - December 17, 2016
Bruno Ramos Gomes, M.A., is a psychologist with a master’s degree in public health from São Paulo University, Brazil. Since 2004, he has been working on reducing drug related harms in Cracolandia, São Paulo; a region with hundreds of crack users. He has been conducting Ibogaine treatment since 2010. He is a collaborator on ICARO-UNICAMP’s ayahuasca research to treat alcohol dependence program.
Latest posts by Bruno Gomes, M.A. (see all)
- What I Learned Treating 400+ Patients with Ibogaine and Ayahuasca - March 13, 2017
Pietro Benedito is a sociologist. He specialized in Sociology of Religion through a thesis on Gender and Religion within the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion Santo Daime.
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- My Experience as a Brazilian at a Santo Daime Retreat in the United States - October 16, 2017
Carlos Suárez Álvarez has a Masters in Amazonian Studies from the Universidad Nacional Colombia and is the author of the multimedia book, Ayahuasca, Iquitos and Monster Vorax. He has lived in an indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon since 2008.
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- Pieces of Ayahuasca, a Cash Crop - August 7, 2019
- Why You Will Never Get a Traditional Ayahuasca Treatment - August 10, 2017
Chris Dodds was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He works as a photojournalist and has traveled multiple times to the Amazon, he has known Yawa Bane for the last 7 years. He currently resides in Los Angeles
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Edward MacRae is associate professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia, researcher at CETAD/UFBA and NEIP. He has written extensively on LGBT rights, AIDS, harm reduction and ayahuasca.
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Ifetayo Harvey is from Charleston, and has a BA in History and African Studies from Smith College. She is currently working as the Communications Associate at the Drug Policy Alliance. https://if3tay0.wordpress.com
Latest posts by Ifetayo Harvey (see all)
- Why the Psychedelic Community is so White - April 12, 2018
Ignacio Carrera works as an Assistant Professor in the Universidad de la República, Uruguay. His research interest lies in the preparation of novel small molecules for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders and the development of biocatalytic methods for organic synthesis. He obtained his PhD in organic chemistry in Universidad de la República and coursed his postdoctoral studies at Columbia University in the city of New York.
Latest posts by Ignacio Carrera, Ph.D. (see all)
- How the Psychedelic Ibogaine May Heal, Repair & Protect the Brain - April 13, 2017
Jae Sevelius, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, and holds a Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Latest posts by Jae Sevelius, Ph.D. (see all)
- A Collective Open Apology for Response to Racist Language in the Women and Psychedelics Forum - December 3, 2018
- Psychedelic Justice:Disrupting the Cultural Default Mode Network - September 12, 2018
- How Psychedelic Science Privileges Some, Neglects Others, and Limits Us All - July 25, 2017
Jean-Francois Sobiecki Bsc Hons (UJ), Dipl Clin Nutr (Aus), is a pioneering South African ethnobotanist, educator and herbalist healer. Jean-Francois offers online courses on ethnobotany and psychoactive plant use.
Latest posts by Jean-Francois Sobiecki (see all)
- African Psychoactive Plants – Journeys in Phytoalchemy - March 5, 2024
- Ubulawu: There is More to Shamanic Healing Than Psychedelic Visions - August 14, 2017
Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester is the Madrinha and President of Céu do Montréal, a Santo Daime Church she founded in 1997 in Montréal, Canada. She is an ordained Inter-Faith Minister with a Doctorate in Divinity. A Transpersonal counsellor, she trained in the work of Dr. Roberto Assagioli and trained with Dr. Stanislav Grof.
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Julie D. Megler, NP-BC, is a nurse practitioner focusing on integrative mental health and integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness. She is Chair of the board of directors for ERIE and co-founder of Sage Integrative Health.
Latest posts by Julie D. Megler, NP (see all)
- How to Safely Access Psychiatric Support in Times of Psychedelic Crisis - December 17, 2018
- Why a Culture of Integration is Critical For the Modern Psychedelic Movement - September 27, 2017
Kathleen Harrison, M.A., is an ethnobotanist who teaches about plants and fungi, especially ritual and mythical relationships with nature. She co-founded Botanical Dimensions in 1985, with Terence McKenna. www.botanicaldimensions.org
Latest posts by Kathleen Harrison, M.A. (see all)
- A Collective Open Apology for Response to Racist Language in the Women and Psychedelics Forum - December 3, 2018
- Who Is Cannabis? - June 19, 2017
Kerry Moran, M.A., LPC is a depth-oriented psychotherapist and writer working with the integration of ayahuasca. She lives in Pisac, Peru. Her website is www.ayahuascawisdom.com.
Latest posts by Kerry Moran, M.A., LPC (see all)
- 6 Ways Ayahuasca Works like a Good Trauma Therapist - May 8, 2018
- The World’s Best Practices for Integrating Ayahuasca - October 23, 2017
- Is Ayahuasca Really Disappearing? - October 2, 2017
Kevin Feeney, Ph.D., JD, is a cultural anthropologist and lawyer who has published several articles examining legal and regulatory issues surrounding the religious and cultural use of psychoactive plants. He is a member of Chacruna's Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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Wendy Chapkis, Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern Maine, is co-author of Dying to Get High (New York University Press, 2008) and numerous drug policy reform articles.
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Charlotte Walsh is a legal academic at Leicester Law School. Her writings and talks challenge the drug laws as they pertain to psychedelics from a liberal, human rights-informed perspective.
Latest posts by Charlotte Walsh, MPhil (see all)
- Beyond Prohibition of Plant Medicines - September 5, 2019
- How Should Plant Medicines Be Regulated? - November 27, 2017
Keeper Trout is an independent scholar and researcher with an interest in cacti and mind-altering plants.
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Marc Aixalà is an engineer, psychologist, psychotherapist and Holotropic Breathwork facilitator. He leads the ICEERS Integration & Support service and has supported hundreds of people who faced challenging experiences with psychedelics.
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Noah Potter, J.D., is an attorney in private practice, a former chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Drug and the Law and the author of the Psychedelic Law blog. He is a member of Chacruna's Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
Latest posts by Noah Potter, J.D. (see all)
- Changing the Psychedelic Political Narrative at the Local Level: Denver 2019 - May 3, 2019
- Psychedelic Markets of the Future - January 8, 2018
Michael James Winkelman, Ph.D. (University of California-Irvine), is a medical anthropologist with an interest in psychedelics, alterations of consciousness and shamanism. He currently lives in the central highlands of Brazil.
Latest posts by Michael James Winkelman, Ph.D. (see all)
- Shamanism and the Dynamics of Addiction - February 27, 2018
Daniel Perkins, Ph.D, works in research and policy relating to psychoactive plants in government and at the University of Melbourne, where he directs the Global Ayahuasca Project, and is a psychotherapist.
Latest posts by Daniel Perkins, Ph.D. (see all)
- Can Drinking Ayahuasca Really Change Your Life? - April 19, 2018
Rubiela Mojomboy is a recognized Inga social leader and defender of the rights of indigenous women.
Latest posts by Rubiela Mojomboy (see all)
- Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine - February 5, 2018
Miguel Evanjuanoy, human and indigenous rights leader of the Inga people, from Putumayo, Colombia. Environmental engineer and follower of yagé medicine. He is a member of the Union of traditional Yagé Medics of the Colombian Amazon (UMIYAC).
Latest posts by Miguel Evanjuanoy, B.Sc. (see all)
- The Guardians of Amazonian Forests in Defense of Life - June 24, 2020
Ingmar Gorman, PhD is a Psychologist and co-founder of Fluence. He served as Co-Principal Investigator on Phase II and III clinical trials studying the safety and efficacy of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
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Rini Hartman is the founder of Céu da Arte.
www.ceudaarte.org
www.ceudaarte.org
Latest posts by Rini Hartman (see all)
- Dutch Freedom of Religion on Pause for Santo Daime - March 15, 2018
- Religious Use of Ayahuasca in the Netherlands Under Threat - February 6, 2018
Alí Cortina is a History major from the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico. He is currently doing his masters degree in Social Sciences and Humanities with the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa.
Latest posts by Ali Cotina, MA (C) (see all)
- Toad Medicine: New Psychedelic Knowledge under Construction? - November 27, 2018
- Controversies Around the Toad Medicine - April 16, 2018
Geoff Bathje, PhD is a former Full Professor, and currently a licensed psychologist focused on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, integration, and harm reduction in group and individual formats. He is also a policy advocate and community organizer working on issues of social justice, psychedelics, and ending the war on drugs.
Latest posts by Geoff Bathje, Ph.D. (see all)
- The Unbelievable Claims of Psymposia about MAPS and MDMA-Assisted Therapy - July 19, 2024
- Combining Psychedelics with Capitalism May Cause Unintended Side Effects - January 24, 2019
- It’s Time for the Psychedelic Renaissance to Join the Harm Reduction Movement - October 29, 2018
Céu dos Ventos, or Centro Eclético da Fluente Luz Universal Francisco Corrente Céu dos Ventos, is a Santo Daime church based in the Hague, The Netherlands.
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Sophia Rokhlin MSc. is a nonprofit organizer working in the Peruvian Amazon, co-author of When Plants Dream (Watkins, 2019) and a member of Chacruna's Ayahuasca Community Committee.
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Elizabeth M. Nielson, PhD, is a Psychologist at the Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program and therapist on clinical trials of Psilocybin and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy.
Latest posts by Elizabeth M. Nielson, Ph.D. (see all)
- Should Psychedelic Therapists Have First-hand Experience with Psychedelics? - August 21, 2019
- Group Therapy for Psychedelic Integration - June 12, 2018
Edilene Coffaci de Lima, is PhD in Anthropology (University of São Paulo, USP) and is Anthropology Professor at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Brazil.
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- New Urban Practices Around Kambô - July 25, 2018
Brian Anderson, MD, MSc, is a psychiatrist and researcher in the department of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco, where he is a co-investigator on a clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for long-term AIDS survivors.
Latest posts by Brian Anderson, MD, MsC (see all)
- The Mission and Programs of Sacred Plant Alliance - September 23, 2024
Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. Other articles of his on entheogens and drug education can be found at: https://www.drkennethtupper.com/publications
Latest posts by Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D (see all)
- Is Ayahuasca a “Drug”? - August 28, 2019
Dennis McKenna, Ph.D, has studied the botany, chemistry and pharmacology of ayahuasca since 1981, when he first traveled to Peru as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia.
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Matthew Meyer was born in Northern California and grew up in Chico. He was a Rotary exchange student to Brazil after high school, and later did fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon for his PhD in anthropology (U Virginia 2014).
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J. Hamilton Hudson earned his JD with an MS from Tulane University and his BA magna cum laude in anthropology from the University of Colorado.
Latest posts by J. Hamilton Hudson, Esq. (see all)
- How Can You Drink Ayahuasca Legally in the U.S.? - January 14, 2020
- Brazilian Ayahuasca Practitioner Arrested and Sentenced to Prison in Russia - August 1, 2018
Shawn Sunil Verma, M.D. is a resident psychiatrist interested in ecopsychology, environmentalism, and novel approaches to imbuing conservation ethic and nature empathy into the greater human psychic connection.
Latest posts by Shawn Sunil Verma, M.D. (see all)
- Can Psilocybin Make People Feel More Empathy to Nature? - August 23, 2018
Sarah Daniels is a MA student in Clinical Psychology at The University of British Columbia researching cannabis in the context of mental health.
Latest posts by Sarah Daniels, BA (Hons.) (see all)
- Using Cannabis to Treat the Effects of Trauma - September 5, 2018
David Nickles is an underground researcher, moderator for the DMT-Nexus community, and glassblower. He has offered cultural commentary on psychedelics and radical politics and participated in numerous harm reduction efforts.
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- The Dire Need for Systemic Critique Within Psychedelic Communities - September 17, 2018
Alhena Caicedo Fernández has Ph.D. in social anthropology from EHESS, France and is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Latest posts by Alhena Caicedo Fernandez, Ph.D. (see all)
- How Did Ayahuasca, Indigenous Diversity and Conservation Become Commodities in the Amazon? - November 26, 2020
- Sexual abuse in the contexts of ritual use of ayahuasca - September 20, 2018
Gregory Wells, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. He offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. He is also co-Principal Investigator and co-therapist in the MAPS-sponsored study of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of PTSD.
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- Queers, Faeries, & Revolutionaries in the Psychedelic Movement - September 26, 2018
Regina Célia de Oliveira is a biologist with a Ph.D. in botany from UNICAMP and a postdoc at Kew Gardens. She is a professor at Brasília University (UnB), participating in the postgraduate program in botany. The main focus of her work is in taxonomy.
Latest posts by Regina Celia de Oliveira, Ph.D. (see all)
- The Urgent Need to Review the Botanical Classification of the Ayahuasca Vine - September 27, 2018
Bett Williams is the author of Girl Walking Backwards. Her new book, The Wild Kindness chronicles cover seven years of psilocybin growing and use, both solitary and in community with queer artists and writers.
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- Psychedelics are Queer, Just Saying - September 27, 2018
Katie Stone is a social change visionary and doctoral student in the Transformative Inquiry Department at CIIS. Her research focuses on the societal and spiritual impacts of progressive drug policy reform.
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Casey Alexander Paleos, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. He is currently serving as a Co-Principal Investigator for the MAPS-sponsored MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD Phase 3 clinical trial.
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Joseph Rhea is an attorney in Palm Springs, California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. He is a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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Gerard Artesona is an AMFT currently residing in Oakland California. He has worked in depth with plant medicine traditions since 2010 and is interested in their applications in psychology.
Latest posts by Gerard Artesona, AMFT (see all)
- Personal Healing with Ayahuasca Helped Me Be a Better Psychotherapist - November 28, 2019
- The Island: Recovering Self, Culture and Place through Plant Medicine - November 15, 2018
Kevon Adrian Simpson is Founder of Entheogen Integration Circle (NYC). He is a two-spirit medicine man within the plant medicine paths of Peru, a psychedelic world traveler, and a multidisciplinary artist born into a Jamaican lineage of healers. He is a member of Chacruna’s Sexual Minorities Working Group.
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- I have HIV and ayahuasca and psilocybin have saved me - October 8, 2019
- High Dose of Psilocybin in a HIV+ Homeless Shelter - November 17, 2018
Dr. Michelle Corbin is a feminist sociologist whose research on psychedelic sciences is grounded in feminist sociology of knowledge and feminist science studies. Dr. Corbin’s research examines the intersecting politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality within psychedelic sciences and communities.
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- Tools for White People to Dismantle White Racism - March 27, 2019
- A Collective Open Apology for Response to Racist Language in the Women and Psychedelics Forum - December 3, 2018
Valerie Leveroni Corral is the co-founder & Executive Director of WAMM, the longest running medical cannabis collective in the nation, established in 1993. WAMM provides cannabis & other phytotherapies for seriously ill on a donation basis, providing care at all stages, including palliative care.
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Sarah Scheld helps people learn to provide MDMA-assisted psychotherapy through MAPS BPC’s MDMA Therapy Training Program. Her organizing, healing, and writing work focus on catalyzing personal healing and social change through trauma resolution and skillful psychedelic use.
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Dr. Sienknecht provides Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at Polaris Insight Center and MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy in the MAPS Study for Treatment of PTSD. His professional interests include consciousness research and interface between music and psychedelics.
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Guilherme Meneses is enrolled in the doctorate program in social anthropology at FFLCH-USP. He has a master’s degree in social anthropology (FFLCH-USP), a bachelor’s in social science (FFLCH-USP) and a bachelor’s in business administration (FGV-EAESP).
Latest posts by Guilherme Meneses, Ph.D. (C) (see all)
- Huni Kuin Game: An Anthropological Adventure - January 3, 2019
Monnica T. Williams, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut. She has published over 100 articles on ethnic minority mental health, psychopathology research, and psychedelic therapy. She is part of Chacruna's Racial Equity and Access Committee.
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Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and Woodstock, NY. Their practice specializes in trauma-informed, queer-affirmative, sex positive psychotherapy and psychedelic integration. They are a member of Chacruna’s Women, Gender Diversity, and Sexual Minorities Working Group.
Latest posts by Dee Dee Goldpaugh, LCSW (see all)
- Can Psychedelics Reveal Memories of Sexual Abuse? - August 4, 2020
- Embodied Healing: A Personal Perspective on Resolving Trauma with Psychedelics - January 30, 2019
Daiara Tukano is an indigenous activist, visual artist, fomer coordinator at Rádio Yandê, and holds a master's in human rights from the University of Brasília.
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Genesee Herzberg, PsyD is a psychologist and co-founder of Sage Integrative Health and Alchemy Community Therapy Center. She served as a therapist in clinical trials studying MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
Latest posts by Genesee Herzberg, PsyD (see all)
- Therapists, Trainers, and Researchers from Lykos’ Phase 3 MDMA-Assisted Therapy Studies Respond to Concerns in ICER’s Draft Evidence Report - May 7, 2024
- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
- Blinded by the White: Addressing Power and Privilege in Psychedelic Medicine - March 13, 2019
Wade Davis is the author of 23 books, including One River, The Wayfinders, Into the Silence and the forthcoming Magdalena. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.
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- Smoking the Toad - May 24, 2019
Ben Meeus holds both a master in International and European Law and in Latin American Studies.
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Francoise Bourzat is trained in Somatic psychology, has been mentored in the Mexican Mazatec tradition of the sacred mushrooms and has been sharing her approach internationally for 30 years.
Latest posts by Francoise Bourzat, MA (see all)
- Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth - September 11, 2020
- Sacred Mushrooms of the Mazatec Tradition: Transforming the Inner Landscape of the Human Psyche - April 5, 2019
Michael Crawford, M.A., is graduate of Haverford College and UConn. He researches the psycho-socio-cultural influences associated with the physical and mental health of underserved populations in the Culture and Mental Health Disparities Lab at UConn.
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- Psychedelic Research and You. Well, Maybe, not You - April 10, 2019
Jessica Nielson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Health Informatics at the University of Minnesota and founder of the Psychedelic Society of Minneapolis.
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- Building a Psychedelic Community During the War on Drugs - April 25, 2019
- The Five Phases of Psychedelic Initiation - April 22, 2019
Sean McAllister is a lawyer specializing in psychedelic law. He is an appointed member of the Denver Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel. Sean is a member Chacruna’s Board of Directors. Steering Committee Member of the Natural Medicine Health Act.
Latest posts by Sean McAllister, Esq. (see all)
- Why Colorado’s Natural Medicine Health Act is the Right Measure to Access Natural Psychedelic Medicine: Responding to Critics of NMHA - September 18, 2022
- Psilocybin Mushroom Policy Review Panel: 2021 Comprehensive Report - November 10, 2021
- Controversies Around California’s Psychedelic Decriminalization Law Senate Bill 519 - July 29, 2021
Todd Youngs is a recovering addict with 9 years clean.He is a practitioner of the 12 Step model and guides others in their quests for sobriety.
https://www.joyofsoberliving.com
https://www.joyofsoberliving.com
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- Ayahuasca and the Twelve Steps: An Anonymous Friendship - May 3, 2019
Victoria Wueschner is a 26 year old yoga teacher with a love of entheogens. She started her journey with plant medicines at the age of 19 and is a proponent of their transforming healing properties.
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- Healing Sexual Trauma with Ayahuasca - May 17, 2019
Lynne Nardizzi, MSW is a psychotherapist and writer. Having healed her “incurable” autoimmune disease through shamanic plant medicine work, she works with clients experiencing health problems, spiritual crises and breakthroughs.
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- Curing an Incurable Disease in the Amazon Jungle - June 11, 2019
Vinícius Dino graduated in Social Sciences at the University of Brasília, and is currently a master’s student in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
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Amy Jones, Ed.M, LCSW is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City and has specialized in working with women, artists, and the LGBTQ community for 15 years. She is Charuna’s Social Events Coordinator.
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- Ayahuasca and Dreaming - July 19, 2019
Bob Otis Stanley, MA Div, is a healthcare informatics researcher, founding Chair of Oakland’s decriminalization initiative and Sacred Garden Community.
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- Ethical and Sustainable Access to Entheogenic Plants - July 23, 2019
NiCole T. Buchanan, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University and the Clinical Director and Founder of Alliance Psychological Associates, PLLC. in East Lansing, MI. She is member of Chacruna’s Board of Directors.
Latest posts by NiCole T. Buchanan, Ph.D. (see all)
- Psychedelic Justice: Creating a Socially Just Psychedelic Renaissance - August 16, 2021
- Hate & Social Media in Psychedelic Spaces - November 5, 2020
- Ensuring Psychedelic Liberty in Black and Brown Communities: Questions to Ponder - April 16, 2020
Jeffrey Guss, MD is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher . He was Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Psychedelic Therapy Training for the NYU School of Medicine’s study on psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in the treatment of cancer related existential distress. He maintains a private practice in New York City.
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Betty Sanchéz, MA, is a higher education teacher and consultant in territory management and public policies with several international organizations in various Amazon states and in the Colombian Orinoquía.
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Amilton Pelegrino de Mattos is professor and researcher at the Indigenous Graduation of UFAC - Floresta. Since 2009, he researches in collaboration with Ibã Huni Kuin and MAHKU.
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- The Visionary Art of Mahku – Huni Kuin Artist Movement - October 29, 2019
Decriminalize Nature Oakland is an educational campaign to inform Oakland residents about the value of entheogenic plants and fungi. DNO has passed a resolution in June 2019 in Oakland decriminalizing entheogenic plants. www.decriminalizenature.org
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- Why we support the growing grassroots movement toDecriminalize Nature First and Forever - October 25, 2019
- Decriminalize Nature, First and Forever - October 1, 2019
Alexander Belser, PhD is a licensed psychologist and psychedelic researcher at Yale University. He co-founded the NYU Psychedelic Research Group in 2006 and serves a MAPS study therapist.
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- Queering Psychedelics: An Introduction - August 7, 2024
- 10 Calls to Action: Toward an LGBTQ-Affirmative Psychedelic Therapy - October 17, 2019
Jerry B. Brown, Ph.D., is an anthropologist, activist and coauthor of The Psychedelic Gospels, 2016, and of “Entheogens in Christian Art,” Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2019.
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- Ayahuasca, Depression and Me - November 12, 2019
Kat Conour, LMFT, is a psychotherapist being trained in MDMA for PTSD through MAPS and Ketamine Assisted Therapy at Sage Integrative. She serves as Director of Auryn Project and on the Advisory Board of Chacruna.
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Liana Sananda Gillooly is Development Officer at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is an advocate and activist for drug policy reform.
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Lia Mix, MS, MFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and chair of the CIIS CPTR Alumni Association. She is the founder and CEO of Enthea Health, an insurance company dedicated to consciousness-focused healthcare.
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- Towards an Ethos of Equity and Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement - December 18, 2019
Nicholas Powers is a poet, journalist and professor. His book "The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street".
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- How Psychedelics Expose the Racial Stigma Around Parenting - January 13, 2020
Harvey Schwartz, PhD, is Co-founder and Psychologist at Polaris Insight Center. He is passionate about training the next generation of clinicians in the fields of trauma, dissociative disorders, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
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- Integration: The Upside of Coming Down – Debriefing, Disrupting & Dark Journeys - April 6, 2020
- Integration: The Upside of Coming Down - March 20, 2020
Sandor Iron Rope, an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Oyate from Pine Ridge South Dakota. He serves as President of the Native American Church of South Dakota and former chair of Native American church of North America. He a member of the Board of Directors of the Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative.
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- Native American Statement Regarding Decriminalization of Peyote - March 30, 2020
Andrew Tso has worked for decades to support the Native American Church legally and spiritually. He has also worked to protect native land and water from oil company activities in the Aneth area.
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The IPCI conservation effort exists to sustain the spiritual practices of Indigenous Peoples for generations to come; promoting health, well-being, and native cultural revitalization through sovereignty and sustainability of the Sacred Peyote plant and the lands on which it grows.
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Luis Miguel Modino is a diocese priest from Madrid, Spain who has served as a Fidei Donum missionary in Brazil since 2006. He belongs to the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesiastical Communication Network (REPAM), is a correspondent on Digital Religion in Brazil and collaborator in Instituto Humanitas-Unisinos.
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- Coronavirus Brings Back Memories - April 10, 2020
Nicolle Greenheart is a Practice Facilitator for Sacred Garden Community. She is a co-founder and former Board Member of Decriminalize Nature, the organization that spearheaded the passing of the decriminalization Resolution in Oakland.
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Inti García Flores is a Mazatec historian from La Salle University, Puebla, and a secondary school teacher in San Mateo Yoloxochitlan. He is also Director of the “Renato García Dorantes” Mazatec Historical Archive.
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- Niños Santos, Psilocybin Mushrooms and the Psychedelic Renaissance - November 12, 2020
- Mazatec Perspectives on the Globalization of Psilocybin Mushrooms - May 6, 2020
Chor Boogie aka Gyangou Kombe Manzambe is an internationally acclaimed artist, Bwiti initiate, and iboga provider with the Ibogasoul team.
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- Privilege & Access: Iboga and Ibogaine - May 18, 2020
The Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants advocates for the legality of sacred plant medicines, encourages legal harm reduction, educate about conservation of plant species, document relevant legal issues, and consult on legal cases.
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Celina De Leon is the director of Circle of Sacred Nature 501(c)3 church, a PhD candidate at the GTU, and on the Board of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines.
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Inês Macedo is a psychiatrist. She is a founding member of Kosmicare Association and she is a member of the Portuguese Society for Existential Psychoterapy.
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- Traveling Without Moving During COVID-19 Lockdown - May 26, 2020
Rebecca Kronman, LCSW, is a licensed therapist specializing in psychedelic preparation and integration, a mother of two and founder of Plant Parenthood, a digital and in person community of parents who use psychedelics.
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Zach Topley worked as the Outreach Director for Decriminalize California, a statewide drug policy reform campaign. He holds a BA in Political Science from UCLA, and writes on food and drug regulatory issues.
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Bill Brennan, PhD (cand.) is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Fordham University.His dissertation research is on ethical relationship and boundary-setting in psychedelic psychotherapy.
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Allan Steiner is a Drug Policy reform advocate living in Oakland California. Allan worked as a cannabis consultant from 2016-2019 and was an early supporter of the Decriminalize Nature Oakland resolution.
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Leonardo Rodríguez has a Ph.D. in international studies. He works as a civil society representative at the United Nations. He is the lead for the non-profit Maloca Internationale.
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Dana Kittrelle is the co-founder of Healers Resilience Fund. With a degree in Ecological Economics from Pomona College and a certificate in Ecopsychology Counseling from the Holos Institute, she has been studying Traditional Amazonian Medicine for the past several years. A lifelong surfer, you’ll find her listening to the waves.
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Ido Hartogoshn, Ph.D, is an assistant professor at the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. His book American Trip: Set, Setting and the Psychedelic Experience (2020) was published with MIT Press.
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- How Set and Setting Shape Psychedelic Cultures - July 30, 2020
Maria Mocerino is a creative writer and interviewer that covers psychedelics. Currently, she is working on an interview series with Chacruna that highlights the work of people of color in the psychedelic field.
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- Entheogens, the African Diaspora, and BIPOC communities with Kufikiri Imara - January 20, 2021
- Innovating Native American Health Care Using Culture and Technology With Sutton King - January 11, 2021
- Navigating the Personal and Political in MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy with Sara Reed - December 29, 2020
Osiris García Cerqueda is Mazatec from Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca. He is a historian and PhD candidate in sociology. His studies focus on the history of the Oaxacan Mazatec, indigenous people, and countercultural movements. He is Chacruna's IRI Program Coordinator.
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Jessica DeWitt, PhD is an environmental historian, editor, and digital strategist. She is Chacruna's Managing Editor. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
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- Call for Submissions – Global History of Psychedelics - January 3, 2024
Luan Gomes dos Santos is an assistant professor at the Federal University of Campina Grande - UFCG., with a doctorate in education and a master’s in development and environment. He is an anthropologist, sociologist & social worker.
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- How Indigenous & Black People are Fighting Colonialism in the Academy - September 2, 2020
Kristina Hunter is a healing guide and writer based in California. Her work explores the intersection of expanded states of consciousness, psychology, and Buddhist meditation.
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Peder Clark, PhD; Dr. Peder Clark is a historian of modern Britain, based at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He is currently developing a project on Ecstasy and rave in the 1990s.
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- ‘Sorted’ for Es? Women and Ecstasy in 1990s Britain - October 28, 2020
Ana Flecha is a PhD student in the Latin American and Latinx Studies Department at UC, Santa Cruz. Her research considers the racial and gendered implications of the Santo Daime bailado, a danced ayahuasca religious practice from Brazil.
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Andrea Ens is a PhD student in History at Purdue University. Her research interests broadly include the history of sexuality, psychology, and psychedelics in twentieth-century North America.
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- “Please Write Up Your Work!”: Laura Archera Huxley as a Psychedelic Pioneer - December 2, 2020
- Another Aspect of Reality: Maria Nys Huxley’s Influence on Psychedelic History - November 25, 2020
Ivo Gurschler is a philosopher currently writing his PhD on the "Genealogy of Mescaline" at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Since 2015, he is a coeditor of the monograph series Schriften zur Verkehrswissenschaft (formerly TUMULT). Besides being a freelance writer, he is working part time as project manager for an educational publishing company.
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Joseph Mays has a MSc. in Ethnobotany and is a member of Chacruna’s Ayahusaca Community Committee. He studies biocultural diversity conservation, and how cultural perspectives influence approaches to the environment.
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- Ten Tips for Standing in Solidarity with Indigenous People and Plant Medicines - January 18, 2024
- Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas: A Respectful Path Forward for the Psychedelic Movement - April 23, 2022
- Supporting Indigenous Autonomy Means Participating in a Story of Relationship - December 10, 2020
Amy Bartlett (she/her) is a feminist, lawyer, community organizer and psychedelic researcher exploring the role that mystical psychedelic experiences play in individual and communal healing through an intersectional lens.
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Eleonora is a psychotherapist and she studies ethics and healing related to non-ordinary states of consciousness. She maintains a private counselling practice and is the ED of WVC Canada.
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- Social Justice Means Decriminalizing All Drugs, Not Just Psychedelics - November 19, 2020
Ariel Clark, partner with Clark Howell LLP, California’s leading women-owned business and regulatory law firm focused on cannabis, hemp and emerging medicines. She is co-general legal counsel to Chacruna Institute. She has worked closely with many California cannabis advocacy groups on various pieces of legislation and policy reform for the last 15 years.
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Stephen Snelders is a Dutch historian of psychedelics and drugs in general. He did his PhD on LSD in the Netherlands. Stephen is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. His latest book Drug Smuggler Nation: Narcotics and the Netherlands, 1920-1995 will be published in February 2021.
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- From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Centre: LSD in the Netherlands - April 3, 2024
- Kin Spruijt: A Psychedelic Nurse in a Dutch Psychiatric Clinic - November 18, 2020
Silvia Mesturini has a master’s degree in social science of religion (EPHE-Sorbonne) and a PhD in anthropology (ULB-Brussels). She is currently working for the ERC project Healing Encounters: Reinventing an Indigenous Medicine in the Clinic and Beyond.
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- Preserving Entangled Ayahuasca - December 7, 2020
Stephen Lett is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. His research explores practices with music in psychotherapy.
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- How Music Therapists Helped Build Psychedelic Therapy - December 9, 2020
Alessandro Tarsia holds a MA in Philosophy of History at the University of Calabria (Italy). He is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Saskatchewan and sessional instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley.
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- Ergot in Canada: A Lost Tradition? - January 20, 2021
Pedro Nájera Quezada is an agroecological engineer from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP).He has worked on various projects and programs such as monitoring of the golden eagle for PROCER (Programa de Conservación de Especies en Riesgo), fauna and flora studies for various protected areas of CONANP (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Natural Protegidas).
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- Let’s Talk About Hikuri: A Peyote Conservation Project by the Wixárika - January 28, 2021
Lisbeth Bonilla is a native of the Wixarika community of Tateikié, Jalisco. She received a degree in Administration from ITESO, the Jesuit university of Guadalajara and has since worked for the Secretary of Culture and developed the Hablemos del Hikuri peyote conservation project.
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- Let’s Talk About Hikuri: A Peyote Conservation Project by the Wixárika - January 28, 2021
Andrew Jones is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His research examines the history of psychedelic drugs in child psychiatry and is supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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Taylor Dysart (@DiceArtTaylor) is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the practices, knowledges, and relations that shaped hallucinogenic plant research in the northwestern Amazon.
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Patrick Farrell is an editor and writer living in Toronto. He is part of the Chacruna Chronicles editorial team, where he supports our series on the history of women in psychedelics.
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- Introduction to Women and Psychedelics - July 26, 2024
- Mescaline Scribe - February 10, 2021
Jeremy Schulz is a Survivor Theologian at Boston University School of Theology and fierce advocate against Trans violence and LGBTQIA+ partner abuse. Learn more about them at StoriesofSurvival.love
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- Psychedelics and the Queer Art of Survival - February 16, 2021
Dr. Paul Uy is a psychiatrist with great interest in the theory and practice of experiential psychotherapies. He is involved in the education, research and compassionate use of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
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- Love and Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Bridging the Divide - February 25, 2021
Alexis Turner is PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University. Alexis’ current research is on the early scientific and political history of LSD in the United States.
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- Gurus Behaving Badly: Anaïs Nin’s Diary & the Value of Gossip - March 10, 2021
Dr. Denise Renye is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified sexologist, and psychedelic integrationist. She has specialized training and expertise in the areas of sexuality, relationships, states of consciousness, psychedelic integration, and intimacy.
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Nathan Howard is a leader in Oregon’s political community. He was an advisor to Oregon’s ballot Measure 109, has helped with ballot Measure 110, and currently serves facilitator for the Plant Medicine Healing Alliance.
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Alexander Beiner is co-founder of Rebel Wisdom and a co-director of Breaking Convention. He also produced the film 'The Rise of Psychedelic Capitalism'.
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- Who’s in Charge of Psilocybin? - May 10, 2021
The IPCI conservation effort exists to sustain the spiritual practices of Indigenous Peoples for generations to come; promoting health, well-being, and native cultural revitalization through sovereignty and sustainability of the Sacred Peyote plant and the lands on which it grows. IPCI’s Communication Committee is composed by Sandor Iron Rope, Colleen Roan, Steve Moore and Miriam Volat.
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Pierre Leger is a PhD student in aesthetic philosophy in France. His work also focuses on the philosophy of contemporary cognitive sciences. He teaches philosophy at Aix-Marseille University and at the ESDAC, Marseille.
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- Anaïs Nin and the Vocabulary of the Psychedelic Experience - May 12, 2021
Igor Fernandes Antunes is a M.A. student in the Sustainability Graduate Program at the University of São Paulo.
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Francisco Savoi de Araujo has a Master in Anthropology at UFBA. His main research interest is the religious use of psychoactive agents, specifically in the Santo Daime religion and Rastafarian culture.
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Mauro Machado Chaiben is Specialist in Law and Tax Policy by FGV/DF and in Law andJurisdiction by ESMA/DF, with research aimed at building a new drug policy and regulatory frameworks around the social right of access to health.
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Cristiana Vale Pires is graduated in psychology, MSc and PhD in Anthropology. She is a founding-member of Kosmicare Association and a researcher at CEDH – FEP of the Portuguese Catholic University.
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- Traveling Without Moving During COVID-19 Lockdown - May 26, 2020
Inês Macedo is a psychiatrist. She is a founding member of Kosmicare Association and she is a member of the Portuguese Society for Existential Psychoterapy.
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- Traveling Without Moving During COVID-19 Lockdown - May 26, 2020
Rebecca Kronman, LCSW, is a licensed therapist specializing in psychedelic preparation and integration, a mother of two and founder of Plant Parenthood, a digital and in person community of parents who use psychedelics.
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Diana Quinn is a queer Chicana, naturopathic doctor, and healing justice practitioner. She is a trainee of the CIIS Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research program, co-founder of Psychedelic Liberation Collective, and a member of Chacruna’s Racial Equity and Access Committee.
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- Mestizo Identity and Decolonial Psychedelic Futures - July 30, 2021
Dr. James Penner is the editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (2014) and the author of Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (2011). He is also a Contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books and Lucid News.
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Sasha T. Sisko is a non-binary student of ethnopharmacology, author of the non-fiction work Graced by Nature, host of the upcoming μltradelic podcast, integration coach, and a social justice advocate.
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- Broken Spears: The Impact of Colonialism on the Aztec Empire - August 13, 2021
The Portland Psychedelic Society (PPS) is a project of the Portland Entheogenic, Exploration, and Research Society (PEERS), which is now a 501c3 nonprofit established to fund educational events, raise awareness about psychedelic science, and offer information about harm reduction.
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Samantha Black (she/they) is a PhD candidate in psychology at the University of Saskatchewan and a lecturer at First Nations University of Canada. Her research centers on community health, 2SLGBTQI+ wellness, grief process, creative therapies, and decolonizing strategies.
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- Wilma Mahua Campos, Shipibo Ayahuasquera - September 2, 2021
Juliana Zárate is founder of @MuchoCol, a startup that promotes local, fair trade foods.
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- Can Coca Leaf Avoid the Wrongs of The Psychedelic Revolution? - July 15, 2021
Benjamin Malcolm, PharmD, MPH, BCPP is a clinical psychiatric pharmacist and psychopharmacology consultant. He provides education related to psychedelics as well as a resource and support membership via his website spiripharmacist.com
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Organic synthetic chemist, working in drug discovery. Part of ‘The Loop’ harm reduction and drug testing service since 2019. Passionate about good information and entheogens.
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- Could Synthetic Mescaline Protect Declining Peyote Populations? - August 2, 2021
Madrone Love is a PsyD student at the Wright Institute and practicum student at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF BAND Lab.
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Angela Allan is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist based in Berkeley, California. She has a master’s in counseling psychology from the Wright Institute.
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- Let’s Talk About Ketamine on Zoom: A Virtual Group - October 19, 2021
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There is growing enthusiasm in Jewish communities about possible ancient use and modern applications of plant medicine in Jewish spiritual development. Psychedelic Judaism introduce new potential modes of healing...
