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List of Chacruna Contributors:
Adam Andros Aronovich, M.A.
Adam Andros Aronovich lives in the Peruvian Amazon, working as research coordinator for the Chaikuni Institute and the Temple of the Way of Light. In addition, he is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center in Catalunya, Spain, and has written for various publications around the world.
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Dr. Timothy D. Brewerton
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.
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Dr. Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D.
Dr. Clancy Cavnar is a licensed psychologist who works in a private practice in San Francisco. She is also Associate Director at Chacruna. You can see her beautiful art at www.clancycavnar.com
Latest posts by Dr. Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D. (see all)
- Can Psychedelics “Cure” Gay People? - November 15, 2018
- Cultivating the Mind, Body & Spirit with Ayahuasca - June 22, 2017
- The Effects of Ayahuasca on the Ego - June 20, 2017
Dawn D. Davis, Ph.D. (C)
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.
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- How My Elder’s Sacred Peyote is Disappearing - April 3, 2017
Alexander Dawson, Ph.D.
Alec Dawson has a PhD in History from SUNY-Stony Brook, and teaches at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of three books and numerous articles.
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- Racist Thinking Still Shapes How We Understand Peyote Drinking - April 15, 2017
Gretel Echazú, Ph.D.
Gretel Echazú has a Ph.D in anthropology, specializing on gender, race, human rights and collective health. She works as Assistant Teacher at the Departament of Anthropology UFRN, Brazil.
Latest posts by Gretel Echazú, Ph.D. (see all)
- Sexual Assault and Gender Politics in Ayahuasca Traditions: A View from Brazil - December 4, 2018
- How Feminine is Ayahuasca? - November 21, 2016
Ben Feinberg, Ph.D.
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
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, Ph.D.
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.)
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- Understanding the Kratom Ban Controversy - March 13, 2017
Graham St. John, Ph.D.
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
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, Ph.D.
Bia Labate has a Ph.D in anthropology. She has published 19 books about psychedelic plant medicines, shamanism, religion, ritual and drug policy. She is an Executive Director at Chacruna.
Latest posts by Bia Labate, Ph.D. (see all)
- Drug Policy in Brazil: Conflicts and Alternatives - January 28, 2019
- A Collective Open Apology for Response to Racist Language in the Women and Psychedelics Forum - December 3, 2018
- Drugs: Perspectives in Social Sciences - November 1, 2018
Armando Loizaga
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.
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Dr. Adèle Lafrance
Dr. Adele Lafrance is an Associate Professor at Laurentian University and Clinical Psychologist. She conducts research on the therapeutic value of psychedelics and supports clinicians in the provision of psychedelic-integration support.
Latest posts by Dr. Adèle Lafrance (see all)
- How the Amazonian Tea Ayahuasca Affects Mental Health - July 12, 2017
- Taking Charge of Your Ayahuasca Integration - June 19, 2017
- Ayahuasca and the Power of Forgiveness - December 14, 2016
Anja Loizaga-Velder, Ph.D.
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.
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- Is Ayahuasca an Effective Therapeutic Tool for Addiction Treatment? - April 19, 2017
Larry Norris, MA
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.
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- Why a Culture of Integration is Critical For the Modern Psychedelic Movement - September 27, 2017
Leopardo Yawa Bane
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
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- My Degree Is From The Forest - June 27, 2017
Martin Fortier, Ph.D. (C)
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.
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- Are Psychedelic Hallucinations Actually Metaphorical Perceptions? - April 19, 2017
Miroslav Horák, Ph.D.
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.
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- Ayahuasca in the Heart of Europe - July 25, 2017
Neal M. Goldsmith, Ph.D
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.
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- How I Completed My Childhood at Burning Man with Psychedelic Mushrooms - August 18, 2017
Patrick Smith, Ph.D. (c)
Patrick is a Ph.D student in regenerative medicine at the University of Manchester, UK. He writes on thepsychedelicscientist.com and thethirdwave.co about psychedelic research and culture.
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- The Magic World of Psychedelic Mushrooms - May 2, 2017
Dr. Paul Glue
Dr. Paul Glue is a clinical psychiatrist and psychopharmacology researcher at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Pedro Musalem, Ph.D
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.
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- Drinking Yagé to Resist Capitalist Violence - September 11, 2017
Rachel Harris, Ph.D.
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.
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- The Therapeutic Potential of Ayahuasca - June 5, 2017
Robert Heffernan
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 a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
Latest posts by Robert Heffernan (see all)
- Ayahuasca Religious Protections during Trump Administration - March 12, 2018
- 7 Best Practices for Ayahuasca Legal Harm Reduction - July 31, 2017
Sidarta Ribeiro, Ph.D.
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.
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- Why Doctors Give You Pills and Not Ancient Plant Remedies - April 21, 2017
Stacy B. Schaefer, Ph.D.
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)
- Peyote: Plant Medicine for the Body, Mind and Soul - April 18, 2017
Stevens Rehen, Ph.D.
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.
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Dr. Tanya Maté
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.
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Vanja Dakic, Ph.D.
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
Alec Dawson, Ph.D
Alexander Dawson, Ph.D., teaches history at the University at Albany. He is the author of three books and numerous articles, and will publish The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, with the University of California Press in 2018.
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- Why Are Some Drugs Legal, and Others Illegal? - November 6, 2017
Martin Terry, DVM, Ph.D.
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)
- Peyote in the United States: Prisoner of War as the War Wanes - November 20, 2017
Ismail L. Ali, J.D.
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.
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.
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- Getting at the Root of Ayahuasca’s Therapeutic Potential - May 17, 2018
Philippe Lucas, Ph.D. (C)
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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UMIYAC
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
Latest posts by UMIYAC (see all)
- Cultural Appropriation and Misuse of Ancestral Yagé Medicine - February 5, 2018
Ernesto Evanjuanoy
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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Riccardo Vitale, Ph.D.
Riccardo Vitale, Ph.D., anthropologist, ethnographer, and indigenous rights expert. Adviser for the UMIYAC since 2016.
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Nidia Olvera-Hernández, Ph.D. (C).
Nidia Olvera-Hernández is a historian and anthropologist focused on psychoactive substances. She is a Ph.D. student of modern and contemporary history at Mora Institute in México City, where she research about the history on drugs. Nidia is a member of the Drugs, Politics and Culture Collective.
Latest posts by Nidia Olvera-Hernández, Ph.D. (C). (see all)
- In Defense of the Use of Sacred Plants in the Americas - August 29, 2018
- We Must Continue Calling the Cannabis Plant “Marijuana” - February 19, 2018
Sharon Rafferty, Ph.D.
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.
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- Integration: Psychedelics, Spirituality and the Ego - February 12, 2018
Alli Feduccia, Ph.D
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 PsyD (C)
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.
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- Psychedelics Panel Invited to Mainstream Healthcare Conference - March 16, 2018
Ceu da Santa Maria
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
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)
- High Holy Strangeness: A Playlist for Ketamine by Eric Sienknecht - March 20, 2019
- A Playlist for Psilocybin by Kelan Thomas - December 7, 2018
- Introducing Chacruna’s Psychedelic Therapy Music Forum - October 9, 2018
Ligia Duque Platero, Ph.D. (C)
Lígia Duque Platero is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She is part of the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Studies on Psychoactives - NEIP.
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Maíra Dias, Ph.D (C)
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, MA
Filipe Silva Ribeiro has a master in anthropology in Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Brazil.
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Emily Sinclair, Ph.D (C)
Emily Sinclair is a Ph.D (C) Candidate in anthropology at Durham University, studying ayahuasca shamanism and tourism in Loreto, Peru, where she lived and worked between 2014 and 2018.
Latest posts by Emily Sinclair, Ph.D (C) (see all)
- Should Ayahuasca Tourism in Peru Be Regulated? - September 8, 2018
- Can People Really Die From Drinking Ayahuasca, as Announced in the Media? - October 30, 2017
Charles Grob, M.D.
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.
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.
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, Ph.D
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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Michelle Thiessen, Ph.D. (C)
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.
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- Using Cannabis to Treat the Effects of Trauma - September 5, 2018
Zach Walsh, Ph.D.
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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Adam Knowles, PgDip
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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- 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, Ph.D.
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.
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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Julia Sonsin Oliveira, Ph.D.
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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Matteo Politi, Ph.D.
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
Alicia Danforth, Ph.D.
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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- Like it or Not, the Psychedelic Renaissance Will be Televised - August 4, 2017
Dr. Gabor Maté
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
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, Ph.D.
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.
Diana Negrín is a geographer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Guadalajara. She currently serves on the board of the Wixárika Research Center, lectures at the University of San Francisco and is an associate scholar at the Center for the Investigation and Study in Social Anthropology (Mexico).
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Amanda Reiman, Ph.D.
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.
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- How Cannabis and Other “Drugs” Can be Gateways to a Better Life - March 28, 2017
Dr. Bruno Rasmussen Chaves
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
Isabel Santana de Rose has a Ph.D in anthropology. She is co-author of the book "Ayahuasca Religions: a bibliography & critical essays" (2009), and several research articles. She examines the emergence of contemporary shamanic networks in Brazil, and is a researcher at the Institute Brazil Plural (IBP).
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- When I First Drank Ayahuasca with the Guarani Indians of Brazil - March 14, 2017
Oscar Calavia-Sáez, Ph.D.
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.
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- The Indigenous Ayahuasca Universe - November 21, 2016
Dr. Scott Shannon
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.
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- Why I Became a Cannabis Researcher - March 1, 2017
Glenn H. Shepard Jr., Ph.D.
Glenn Shepard Jr., is an ethnobotanist, medical anthropologist and film maker now working at the Goeldi Museum in Brazil. He has written on topics ranging from shamanism to human ecology to indigenous modernity. See his blog: ethnoground.blogspot.com
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Dena Sharrock, Ph.D. (c)
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.
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- Ayahuasca Propaganda and Society’s Addiction to Moral Panic - June 27, 2017
Dr. Jordan Sloshower
Jordan Sloshower, MD, MSc, is a resident psychiatrist at Yale University and co-founder of the Yale Psychedelic Science Group. His research focuses on therapeutic applications of psilocybin and ayahuasca.
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- Is Psychiatry Ready for the Psychedelic Healing Paradigm? - March 17, 2017
Dr. Joe Tafur
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.
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- A Story of Visionary Ayahuasca Healing, DNA and Epigenetics - March 17, 2017
Christopher Timmermann, Ph.D.(c)
Christopher Timmermann obtained a BSc in Psychology in Santiago, Chile and a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Bologna in Italy. He is currently completing a PhD in Imperial College London, leading a project focusing on the effects of DMT in the brain and human consciousness.
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Robin Wright, Ph.D.
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.
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- Ayahuasca and the Gift of Seeing Through Serpent Eyes - December 17, 2016
Bruno Gomes, M.A.
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.
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- What I Learned Treating 400+ Patients with Ibogaine and Ayahuasca - March 13, 2017
Camila Benedito Ph.D. (C)
Camila de Pieri Benedito is a PhD candidate in sociology at UFSCar doing research on gender and religion in the Santo Daime religion. She is part of NEREP and NEIP.
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- My Experience as a Brazilian at a Santo Daime Retreat in the United States - October 16, 2017
Carlos Suárez Álvarez
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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- Why You Will Never Get a Traditional Ayahuasca Treatment - August 10, 2017
Chris Dodds
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, Ph.D
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
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
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- Why the Psychedelic Community is so White - April 12, 2018
Ignacio Carrera, Ph.D.
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.
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- How the Psychedelic Ibogaine May Heal, Repair & Protect the Brain - April 13, 2017
Jae Sevelius, Ph.D.
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.
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- 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
Jean-Francois Sobiecki is an ethnobotanist and herbalist healer from South Africa whose passion and work is to teach people how to use medicinal plants for healing and self development. E-mail: phytoalchemist@gmail.com, Practice: www.phytoalchemy.co.za, Research: www.khanyisagarden.co.za.
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- Ubulawu: There is More to Shamanic Healing Than Psychedelic Visions - August 14, 2017
Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester
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
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.
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- How to Safely Access Psychiatric Support in Times of Psychedelic Crisis - December 17, 2018
Kathleen Harrison, M.A.
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
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- Who Is Cannabis? - June 19, 2017
Kerry Moran, M.A., LPC
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.
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- 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.
Kevin Feeney has a law degree and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology. He is currently a lecturer at Central Washington University, and has published a number of articles examining legal and regulatory issues surrounding the religious and cultural use of psychoactive plants.
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Wendy Chapkis, Ph.D.
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, MPhil
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.
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- How Should Plant Medicines Be Regulated? - November 27, 2017
Keeper Trout
Keeper Trout is an independent scholar and researcher with an interest in cacti and mind-altering plants. He volunteers for Cactus Conservation Institute (www.cactusconservation.org) and is digitizing
Ann & Sasha Shulgin’s archives (shulginresearch.org).
Ann & Sasha Shulgin’s archives (shulginresearch.org).
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Marc Aixala
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.
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.
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- Psychedelic Markets of the Future - January 8, 2018
Michael James Winkelman, Ph.D.
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.
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- Shamanism and the Dynamics of Addiction - February 27, 2018
Daniel Perkins, Ph.D.
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.
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- Can Drinking Ayahuasca Really Change Your Life? - April 19, 2018
Rubiela Mojomboy
Rubiela Mojomboy is a recognized Inga social leader and defender of the rights of indigenous women.
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Miguel Evanjuanoy, B.Sc.
Miguel Evanjuanoy is a member of the Inga people. He is an environmental engineer, follower of yagé medicine, and indigenous rights activist.
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Ingmar Gorman, Ph.D.
Ingmar Gorman Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist, Director of the Psychedelic Education and Continuing Care Program, an NIH fellow at NYU, and site co-principal investigator studying MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD.
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- Microdosing Controversy: Where Do You Stand? - January 22, 2018
Rini Hartman
Rini Hartman is the founder of Céu da Arte.
www.ceudaarte.org
www.ceudaarte.org
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- Dutch Freedom of Religion on Pause for Santo Daime - March 15, 2018
- Religious Use of Ayahuasca in the Netherlands Under Threat - February 6, 2018
Ali Cotina, MA (C)
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.
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- Toad Medicine: New Psychedelic Knowledge under Construction? - November 27, 2018
- Controversies Around the Toad Medicine - April 16, 2018
Geoff Bathje, Ph.D.
Geoff Bathje, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, professor, and activist, with additional training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research, Sensorimotor Therapy, harm reduction, and community organizing.
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- 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
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy During Prohibition - March 21, 2018
Ceu dos Ventos
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, MS.c.
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, Ph.D.
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.
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- Group Therapy for Psychedelic Integration - June 12, 2018
Edilene Coffaci, Ph.D.
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
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.
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- Statement on Ayahuasca - July 19, 2018
Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D
Kenneth Tupper, Ph.D., is the Director of Implementation & Partnerships at BC Centre on Substance Use and also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.
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Dennis McKenna, Ph.D
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, Ph.D
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, Esq.
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.He is a member of Chacruna’s Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants.
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Shawn Sunil Verma, M.D.
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.
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- Can Psilocybin Make People Feel More Empathy to Nature? - August 23, 2018
Sarah Daniels, BA (Hons.)
Sarah Daniels is a MA student in Clinical Psychology at The University of British Columbia researching cannabis in the context of mental health.
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David Nickles
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 Fernandez, Ph.D.
Alhena Caicedo Fernández has Ph.D. in social anthropology from EHESS, France and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Sexual abuse in the contexts of ritual use of ayahuasca - September 20, 2018
Gregory Wells, Ph.D.
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 Celia de Oliveira, Ph.D.
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.
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- The Urgent Need to Review the Botanical Classification of the Ayahuasca Vine - September 27, 2018
Bett Williams
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
Jeanna Eichenbaum, LCSW
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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- Dissolving the Binary: The Queerness of Psychedelics - October 9, 2018
