Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines is a registered California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (EIN 84-3076078). We are a community-oriented organization run by a small staff of experts and enthusiastic volunteers who work to bring education and cultural understanding about psychedelic plant medicines to a wider audience. We promote a bridge between the ceremonial use of sacred plants and psychedelic science and envisage a world where plant medicines and other psychedelics are preserved, protected, and valued as part of our cultural identity and integrated into our social, legal, and health care systems.
Help us to achieve our mission! From our beginnings in 2017, we have stood apart from other psychedelic education and advocacy organizations by pioneering initiatives that support and provide a platform for diverse voices, including women, queer people, people of color, Indigenous people, and the Global South. In efforts to address the lack of diverse representation in the expanding psychedelic landscape, we centered our mission around the empowerment of marginalized voices to foster cultural and political reflections on topics like race, gender, and sexuality in psychedelic science. We believe now more than ever, given the current social and political climate, our work is critical to the future of psychedelic healing for humanity.
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“The greatest delight which the
field and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man
and the vegetable.” - Emerson
He began telling me...
Byron
Metcalf, PhD, is a therapist, explorer of consciousness, and musician who
specializes in creating music for neoshamanic work. He began his career playing
drums with country...
The Psychedelic Therapy Music Forum is an initiative of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines that explores the role of music in the...
I was
introduced to Eric Sienknecht last summer while we were at the Beyond
Psychedelics conference in Prague. Eric is a psychologist and the co-founder of
Polaris...
A Playlist for
Psilocybin
Psychedelic work almost universally makes use of music as a
means to shape and guide the experience of those participating in it. The...
Its purpose is to point out that musical sound quality is an important part of the setting—as in set and setting—of psychedelic psychotherapy
Michael and...