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.
Please become a member so that you are able to help Chacruna, yourself, and the world. Support of any amount helps this cause and allows us to provide psychedelic education to anyone who wants to access it.
Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines has published a new article, “A Call for Public Support Against the Current Demonization of Ayahuasca Practices in Spain,” standing in solidarity with 110 thought leaders around the world in support of ayahuasca groups in Spain, as well as Europe in general. Together, they call for a serious discussion and the reconsideration of ayahuasca’s status in Spain, where its use has been increasingly repressed, and they urge authorities to respect the religious freedoms of ayahuasca groups.
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Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices Women and Psychedelics centers women in the psychedelic movement
The Chacruna Institute announces the publication of Women and Psychedelics:...
Chacruna Institute will be offering three new courses and a workshop which will focus on perspectives such as the Indigenous, scientific, and social justice aspects of psychedelics and sacred plants. This collection of courses and a workshop are the cumulative result of expertise and many years of discussions curated by the Chacruna team.
Featuring 70 speakers – including Indigenous leaders from the Americas, neuroscientists, religious thought leaders, award-winning authors, activists, poets, and many others – illuminating vital...
On Mon, December 13, 2021, the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines will be hosting an interactive workshop “Implicit Bias, Therapy, and Psychedelics: Reducing...
Chacruna Institute announces the release of its comprehensive Guide to RFRA and Best Practices for Psychedelic Plant Medicines Churches. This guide offers free education and resources to the public on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and ways in which various psychedelic plant medicine church practices may or may not supported by this law in the United States.
Chacruna Institute's Patenting the Sacred series is related to Chacruna’s Indigenous Reciprocity Initiative of the Americas, and aims to educate and promote critical thinking in the field of psychedelics by bringing together experts in intellectual property, law, medicine, anthropology, sacred plants, and Indigenous worldview to deepen public discourse on critical issues that impact all of us inside the psychedelic renaissance. The next forum is titled “Indigenous Worldview, Property, and Extractivism in the Psychedelic Renaissance" and will stream on October 27th.
The Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines published their book, Ayahuasca Healing and Science, edited by Beatriz (Bia) Labate, Ph.D., and Clancy Cavnar, Psy.D. The book provides...
On September 14, 2021, Synergetic Press published the book, Psychedelic Justice: Toward a Diverse and Equitable Psychedelic Culture. The edited anthology by Bia Labate, PhD and Clancy...